The purchase of the financial site, Mint.com for $170 million, by Intuit, is one indication that valuations may start returning to some pre-crash levels for acquisitions. The sales price represents 17x of…
Category: Internet News
YouTube.com: Sex & Nudity Videos Are Banned But Death & Suffering Are OK
A news story that ran locally in Miami last night caught my eye. There is a video posted on YouTube showing a man drowning off the coast of Puerto Rico. The video…
It’s Not Just Your Friends Checking Out Your Social Networking Page: The IRS and Robbers Are Watching You Too
Any one with a Facebook, Myspace or Twitter account, (probably everyone who reads this blog, ) needs to read two recent posts on Mashable, about how tax authorities and burglars are both…
Blind Search: Side By Side Search Results For Google, Yahoo & Bing
A employee of Microsoft, Michael Kordahi, has launched a “fun experiment”, side project to see how the three major search engines return results for the same keyword. He calls the service, “BlindSearch,…
comScore: “Forget The Click”; Treat Internet Ads Like TV Ads
Gian Fulgoni, chairman and co-founder of comScore, said at the MediaPost OMMA Metrics & Measurement conference in San Francisco, Calif., Friday that advertisers should “Get rid of the click as the de…
Amazon.com Buys Zappos.com For $847 Million
Amazon.com announced today that they bought online retailer Zappos.com for $847 Million, in a stock and cash transaction. According to the press release, Amazon will assume all outstanding options and warrants of…
Should A Blog Publish Hacked Information? TechCrunch Did
TechCrunch published a blog post last night disclosing financial projections of Twitter, which it admitted was obtained by a an anonymous hacker which had gained “easy access” to hundreds of pieces of…