Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer formally introduced Bing.com Microsoft new search platform today at the All Things Digital conference hosted by The Wall Street Journal. According to the Journal, the search engine "is different from its predecessor and rivals' search engines, with search results displayed on the left hand side of the Web page. It also allows users to access a range of … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2009
Time Warner To Spin Off AOL.com Later This Year
Time Warner announced today official plans to spin off AOL.com around the end of this year. Time Warner's board is expected to meet today and approve the plan. Once completed, the deal would once again make AOL an independent, publicly traded company. AOL bought Time Warner in 2001 for $147 billion dollars which has largely been regarded as one of the worst convinced mergers of all … [Read more...]
How Accurate Is Alexa.org?
We all seem to rely on web ranking services, in valuing domains we are looking to acquire and one of the tools many domainers use, including myself, is Alexa.org Alexa.org basically uses the information from those who have downloaded its toolbar (and specifically allowed Alexa to use the info) as a sample of Internet usage and than ranks sites by estimated traffic based off those users. I … [Read more...]
Yahoo: We Will Do A Deal With Microsoft For “Boat Loads of Money”
Yahoo's CEO, Carol Bartz said Wednesday she would be open to striking a search deal with Microsoft if they offered "boatloads of money." "If there's boatloads of money and the right technology involved, we'd do a deal, sure," Ms. Bartz said at the All Things Digital conference. "It's that simple." Ms. Bartz also said Yahoo was interested in acquiring social-networking and video start-ups, … [Read more...]
Why Would CNET.com Just Park A Domain Like Radio.com?
Radio.com was first registered by CNET, the company CBS paid $1.7 billion dollars to acquire about a year ago. If you look at radio.com today its a simple parked page. Incredibly strange considering CBS owns last.fm, an online radio station which it paid $280 Million for in May 2007, and over 100 on-air radio stations throughout the US. The parked page for radio.com does not even list … [Read more...]
How Can A Typo With 191 Monthly Visitors Be Worth $3k+ ?
The domain realsestate.com is at auction at Godaddy and with over 1 day to go, it's already at over $3K. Godaddy.com estimates traffic, at a pretty minimal, 191 visitors a month. Why would someone spend thousands of dollars to buy a typo with minimal traffic? Thoughts … [Read more...]
FaceBook.com Takes In A $200M Investment, Vaulation is Now Pegged At $10 Billion
Facebook today announced that Digital Sky Technologies (DST), made a $200 million investment in Facebook in exchange for preferred stock, representing a 1.96 percent equity stake at a $10 billion valuation. In addition, DST has indicated that it is planning to offer to purchase at least $100 million of Facebook common stock from existing common stockholders that would facilitate liquidity for … [Read more...]