According to a report in TechCrunch, Google has acquired Aardvark, a San Francisco start-up whose service melds Internet search and social networking for an estimated $50 million dollars. Aardvark, which counts two…
Month: February 2010
Company That Bought Insure.com For $16M; QuinStreet Fails To Impress Wall Street On IPO
The highly-anticipated QuinStreet IPO received a lukewarm reception on its trading debut on Thursday. The company, which competes with Google and Yahoo to sell advertising, raised $140 million selling 10 million shares…
Afilias Buys The .Mobi Registry
Afilias Limited, an Irish Limited company, and the registry operator for .INFO, announced today that it acquired all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd. (known…
MediaPost: “”Marketers Might Pay Just About Any Price For A Solid Domain Name”””
You have to check out a very positive article about the value of domains, written by Laurie Sullivan for Media Post today. She wrote in part: “””Marketing and advertising agencies looking to…
WSJ: Covers VeriSign, The No Bid Contract To Run The .Com Registry & What Happens After 2012
The Wall Street Journal had an article discussing VeriSign today and its contract to run the .com registry “The domain name business remains the subject of a lawsuit originally filed in 2005,…
You Got A Spare $250 Million Laying Around? You Maybe Able To Buy Hooters (Domain Name Comes With)
According to the New York Post, Hooters is shopping itself around for an undisclosed amount but which is estimated to be by analysts the Post talked to in the $250 Million dollar…
Google To Build Out Its Own High Speed Broadband Network
Google announced on its blog this morning that they are planning to build and test their own “ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States.”…