Oveture was not a bad acqusition
Don Dodge thinks Yahoo’s 2003 acquisition of Overture was 8th worst billion dollar acquisition of an Internet company. I would probably put it at the top of my best billion dollar Internet...
View ArticleSuccess is really doing what you love and doing it well
“Success is really doing what you love and doing it well.” - Warren Buffett
View ArticleBitTorrent acquires uTorrent
BitTorrent, Inc to acquire Swedish uTorrent AB. “Together, we are pleased to announce that BitTorrent, Inc. and µTorrent AB have decided to join forces. BitTorrent has acquired µTorrent as it...
View ArticleSpotify - great music player
Yesterday I got my hands on an early beta of the music player Spotify. Spotify aims to be an an ad-financed iTunes-like client connected to a large archive of songs that are streamed via encrypted P2P...
View ArticleGreat people are sold on jobs
It’s hard to identify talent, but great people don’t look for jobs, great people are sold on jobs. And if they’re sold they’re going to say no at first. You have to win them over. - Joe Kraus,...
View ArticleOn trigger happy fingers
Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick seems to have been the trigger of a lot of acquisition activity (Microsoft-Acquantive, WPP for 247/ Real Media, Yahoo for Right Media, AOL for AdTech). It seems...
View Article“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” - John Maynard Keynes
View ArticlePrimelabs raises 10 MSEK from Servisen
Swedish-based Primelabs, operator of the popular Twingly ping and blog search service which connect blogs with media sites like Dagens Nyheter, SvD and IDG, has received a 10 million Swedish krona...
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