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- Facebook Turns Down $8 Billion Valuation Term Sheet, Claims 2009 Revenues Will Be $550 Million
- Michael Arrington submits: In the last couple of weeks Facebook received and turned down a term sheet for a new $200 million venture round of funding that would value the company at $8 billion, we’ve learned from a source with direct knowledge of the proposed transaction. We’ve also heard...
- External links 2009-05-19
- AOL May Spin Off Bebo
- Michael Arrington submits: Interesting off hand comment by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong at the Fortune event this morning. Bebo, the social network AOL paid $850 million for in 2008, wasn’t mentioned on the list of AOL’s core product goals going forward. Late in the interview, though, Armstrong was asked...
- External links 2009-07-23
- Microsoft, Yahoo Still Talking, A Deal Could Be Imminent
- Michael Arrington submits: The much anticipated Microsoft/Yahoo search alliance is in the “final stages of negotiation” says a source close to Yahoo YHOO, and may be signed at any time. The two companies have been negotiating the terms of the transaction for weeks, and our source says that the...
- External links 2009-07-28
- Yahoo Shareholders Transfer $2.9 Billion To Microsoft Shareholders
- Michael Arrington submits: Anyone wondering who got the better deal today my detailed thoughts later need only look at the stock movements of Yahoo and Microsoft. Yahoo dipped 12.08% to $15.14, knocking $2.91 billion off their market cap. Microsoft gained 1.41% to $23.80, adding…$2.94 billion to their market cap....
- External links 2009-07-29
- What If: The New New York Times
- Michael Arrington submits: Like everyone else I’ve watched the print media world fall apart over the last few years. The poster child for that industry is the New York Times NYT, of course, and their many missteps in recent memory have been well chronicled. In early 2008 Marc Andreessen...
- External links 2009-07-30
- AOL Newsroom Now Has (Wow) 1,500 Writers
- Michael Arrington submits: In June we wrote about AOL’s evolving “Toyota” strategy to evolve into an online media powerhouse just as the print media world is falling apart. New CEO Tim Armstrong hasn’t been pinned down on how hard he’s betting on this strategy in recent public appearances. But...
- External links 2009-07-30
- Wall Street Journal Creating New 'LinkedIn Killer'
- Michael Arrington submits: The Wall Street Journal has long envied the success of professional social network LinkedIn and its 15 million or so monthly visitors (WSJ.com has just a third of that). In late 2008 they launched WSJ Community, a social network bolted onto the main WSJ site. That...
- External links 2009-07-30
- eBay in Litigation with Skype Founders over Key Technology
- Michael Arrington submits: Perhaps with the benefit of hindsight, firing Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom as CEO in 2007 and paying out only 1/3 of the potential earnout wasn’t the best idea. Zennstrom seems to be holding quite a grudge. eBay is developing new peer-to-peer software to run the Skype...
- External links 2009-07-31
- Dell May Be Launching Mobile Phone in China Imminently
- Michael Arrington submits: A source with knowledge of the situation tells us that Dell DELL is launching or at least announcing a mobile phone in China in the next day or two. We are trying to verify the information and gather more details on the hardware and operating system...
- External links 2009-08-10
- MySpace Close to Acquiring iLike for $20 Million
- Michael Arrington submits: MySpace is close to acquiring popular social music service iLike, we’ve confirmed with multiple sources. The deal, which should close this week, will be MySpace’s first acquisition since new CEO Owen Van Natta took control of the company in April 2009. The price is “around $20...
- External links 2009-08-17
- It Seems that the Safest Browser Is Whoever Is Paying Yahoo the Most
- Michael Arrington submits: Earlier Thursday Robin Wauters posted about Yahoo’s YHOO advertorial promotion of IE8 across Yahoo sites. “Get The New, Safer IE8,” says the message, which Robin viewed via Firefox 3. Does Yahoo consider IE8 safer than Firefox? Not if you visit the German Yahoo, which...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Flickr vs. Free Speech. Where Is Yahoo's Courage to Do the Right Thing?
- Michael Arrington submits: One thing I’ve learned over the years is this - screwing over your users while yelling “the lawyers made me do it!” rarely ends well. Particularly when the lawyers are just being lazy, and free speech rights are at stake. Flickr really stepped in...
- External links 2009-08-21
- Flickr Shuts Down Forum Discussion on Obama-Joker Image
- Michael Arrington submits: Oh, this just gets better and better. Or perhaps sadder and sadder. In a post Friday morning we discussed Flickr’s questionable decision to remove a photoshopped image of President Obama that makes him look like the Heath Ledger Joker character from The...
- External links 2009-08-23
- What?s Really Going on With Apple, Google, AT&T and the FCC
- Michael Arrington submits: Apple has responded to the FCC’s request for information around its rejection of various Google GOOG and third party iPhone applications for the iPhone. In short, Apple AAPL denies that they rejected the Google Voice application, but they go into great detail about how...
- External links 2009-08-23
- Coming to Yahoo: Better Search, Customizable Content
- Michael Arrington submits: Yahoo YHOOshowed off a couple of new upcoming features during my briefing Monday on the new home page to launch tomorrow. The first is a tool, called Customizable Content for now, to dial how “fun” or “serious” you like your news. Want hard core...
- External links 2009-07-21
- Is the Free Version of Google Apps History?
- Michael Arrington submits: The free version of Google Apps is history. The current sign up page makes no mention of the previously free Standard edition. Instead, new users get a 14 day free trial, and then must pay $50 per user per year after that trial. Google Apps is...
- External links 2009-07-07
- iPod Video Could Be a Game Changer
- Michael Arrington submits: Like most people who’ve had an iPhone 3GS in their hands, we’ve been extremely impressed with the video capabilities of this little device. Not only Does it take near-HD video, it has excellent basic editing software and video can be uploaded to YouTube over Wifi or...
- External links 2009-07-06
- News Corp.'s MySpace Is In Real Trouble If Page View Declines Don't Reverse
- Michael Arrington submits: We’ve all been closely watching the total user number for MySpace and Facebook and trying to predict the date that MySpace’s last stronghold will fall - no. 1 in U.S. social networking users. A year ago Facebook had super growth around the world, but U.S. growth...
- External links 2009-05-19
- Google Values MySpace Deal at $75 Million or Less
- Michael Arrington submits: The last $75 million payment on the $900 million Google/News Corp. search advertising deal will be paid to News Corp. a year from now. That deal has accounted for about a third of News Corp.’s online revenue from MySpace and some of its smaller Internet sites,...
- External links 2009-05-21
- Time Warner to Decide on AOL Spinoff on Thursday
- Michael Arrington submits: Last month Time Warner TWX announced that it would likely spin off its AOL assets into a new company, followed by an IPO (10Q SEC filing is here). Little detail was given about the transaction, other than the fact that Google’s 5% stake...
- External links 2009-05-27
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