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- Sirius, GM, AIG: Where Is the Leadership in American Boardrooms?
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Finding out that XM Sirius SIRI lost nearly $5B in the third quarter (not spent, or in the year, we’re talking losses in three months) is akin to finding out that the pizza parlor next to our office spent $13M in green peppers. It’s shocking, criminal,...
- External links 2008-11-11
- Print, TV Losses Proving to Become Internet Advertising's Gains
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: A couple of posts and reports to brighten up any web entrepreneur’s day: Tech Crunch captures a couple of highlights from the IAB’s latest report: by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
- External links 2009-03-31
- Google Needs to Develop a Heart and Soul
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: In 2006, I wrote an article called Google is the 21st century’s version of Standard Oil and Microsoft, the next generation monopoly. In search and in video, Google GOOG and its video unit YouTube certainly have become monopolies. In search, Google is...
- External links 2009-04-06
- YouTube's Product Placement Crackdown Is a Mistake
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Google’s GOOG $1.65B baby YouTube is making a mistake on cracking down on unauthorized product placement in videos. Let me explain: by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
- External links 2009-05-05
- Cracking the YouTube Enigma
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Latest figures peg Apple’s AAPL revenues off the App ecosystem at a "whopping" $20-45M. Back in March 2008, when Facebook hype was at current “Twitteresque” levels and FB and iPhone app funds were popping up right and left, I asked where’s the YouTube fund....
- External links 2009-05-15
- Why Yahoo Should Take Another Stab at Video Content
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Apparently, Yahoo! YHOO is looking at making acquisitions in social media and video, says Tech Crunch. According to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: “We are very interested in social, and in video technology,” said Bartz. She was particularly bullish on Web video: “This is...
- External links 2009-05-28
- Google / YouTube - Best M & A Ever?
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Back in Fall of 2007, I published something called Top 10 Best Web M&As of All Time. The YouTube acquisition had just closed, so I said we’ll reserve judgment. At the time, we put News Corp.’s NWSA acquisition of MySpace at #1 for the...
- External links 2009-07-19
- eBay's Skype Fiasco: What Were They Thinking?
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: It is astounding that eBay forked EBAY over $3B for Skype and didn’t actually buy Skype’s underlying technology. It is amazing that they didn’t realize this and outright criminal that they didn’t get a fully-paid, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive (exclusive for the purposes of international...
- External links 2009-08-03
- MySpace's Buys iLike: Sign of the Times
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: MySpace NWS is about to buy iLike to galvanize its leadership in music, and the deal, if it goes through, is a sign of the times for two reasons: 1 - At a rumored $20M price tag, the deal is anything but a hit,...
- External links 2009-08-17
- Goldman Anticipates Bonus Season Media Frenzy
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Goldman Sachs GS will have a piggy bank of more than $11 billion to dole out in bonuses at year’s end, and that is making the company sweat. I wonder why. From the Daily Beast: by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
- External links 2009-08-24
- Mint.com Was 'Forced' By VCs to Sell to Intuit?
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: One of my hobbies is pointing out that VCs hurt entrepreneurs as much as they help them, but I disagree with 37 Signals CEO Jason F’s notion that VCs forced Aaron Patzer to sell Mint.com for $170M to Intuit INTU. After all, who in...
- External links 2009-09-21
- Skype Founders Are Destroying Their Reputation
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Kazaa/Skype/Joost - and I guess Joltid - founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are richer than God. Let’s get that out of the way. Kazaa was a disruptive and destructive force in music that took the baton from Napster after the RIAA killed...
- External links 2009-09-21
- YouTube: Anyone Still Doubt Google's Wisdom?
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: October 2009 will mark the two year anniversary of Google’s GOOG acquisition of YouTube. Before the deal even took place, I wrote that YouTube had the potential to print money. It wasn’t at the time, mainly because YouTube was growing like a...
- External links 2009-09-29
- Can CBS Still Hold On to March Madness Rights?
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: In 1999, CBS CBS signed an 11-year deal for the rights to NCAA’s college basketball March Madness tournament for a whopping $6 billion, or an annual average of $545 million. CBS had the foresight to lock in new media rights: CBS is announcing that year-over-year...
- External links 2009-03-23
- Why Is TheStreet.com Trading for Less than Cash?
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: TheStreet.com TSCM announced layoffs after announcing that their long time CEO Thomas Clarke was leaving the company. TCSM is one of the 20 or so companies we have had M&A talks with over the years. Our brief discussions with TheStreet.com date back to May...
- External links 2009-03-23
- Big Media: The Bigger They Were, The Smaller They Now Look
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: This post should be titled: Screwed If You Do, Screwed If You Don’t, or better yet, We Tech Bloggers Are a Bunch of Hypocrites! Was it not just a few months ago (technically, quarters) when we lambasted “big, dumb, slow, old media” for not doing...
- External links 2009-03-12
- Are the Automakers Silencing Ad Supported Media Criticism?
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Automakers have always been some of the biggest marketers around. Obviously this year it’s a bit different: it’s hard to blow billions on advertising when you head to Washington - and corporate jets, mind you - and ask for a $25B bailout ("it’s a loan”)....
- External links 2008-11-24
- Google Layoffs: How to Reverse a 55% Stock Decline
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: The inevitable is happening: Google GOOG is about to lay off people, up to 10,000 could be affected. Here is a look at Google’s headcount: Google reports to the SEC that it has 20,123 employees but in reality it has 30,000. Why the discrepancy? Google...
- External links 2008-11-25
- Microsoft / Yahoo: Round Two
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Rumor has it that MSFT is kicking YHOO’s tires, again, but this time it’s only going after the search component of the business. We know search is key because it accounts for 40% of the only remaining bright spot in advertising, but also because it...
- External links 2008-11-30
- Can Google Really See a Decline in Revenues?
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Could Google GOOG possibly be looking at two straight years of lower revenues? First, let's look at Google's historical revenue growth: Then, let's consider the horror. Via Barron's: by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
- External links 2008-12-03
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