Google Gets MySpace

Google + MySpace = ~ 1 Billion Dollar deal. MySpace already makes $350 Million a year in revenues, but a Google deal will add a great deal of structure to their advertising. Of course, this just pushed the valuations of FaceBook and YouTube up another notch as well. Some exits are in the wings for

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Oh Please!

Here’s Om Malik speaking my mind on the Business Week cover story on Digg. Paper net worth is vapor net worth, as many of us have experienced in the past!

Yahoo Opens Wallet For India

Yahoo will co-invest with Canaan Partners in an Indian Matrimonial site, Bharatmatrimony.com. This is, likely, indicative of a trend that Yahoo will take a stake in each promising segment of the Indian Consumer Internet industry (Travel, Jobs), as well as in the emerging web and mobile content industry. For an overview of the deals done

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Another 1.1 Billion For India

After IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel and AMD, SAP joins their ranks as the sixth major company to commit over 1 Billion in investment capital to India. SAP will increase the India headcount from 2,750 to 4,000 by this year and to 8,000 by 2011. They just opened a second R&D center in Gurgaon, the first

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IBM’s Enterprise Software Acquisition Spree

Oracle gets all the media attention, but IBM has been quietly buying up enterprise software companies. They have bought the following software companies in the last 2 years: Isogon, software asset management solutions. Micromuse, Ascential & Cyanea, performance management solutions of web-based business apps. DWL, Customer Data Integration (CDI) Middleware. Collation, IT service management software.

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Segmented MySpace

Techcrunch has an interesting piece on Eons, a MySpace for older users, so to speak. The comments are very interesting. My thesis is that the concept of social / professional networking and community building in a targeted mode will filter down to every aspect of society. This means, your alumni association will have its own

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Good Built-to-Flip Case Study

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) has become both essential, as well as extremely complex these days. What keywords should you buy? How should you distribute your budget against keywords? What frequency? What messages? Blah blah blah …Needless to say, in the midst of difficulty, entrepreneurs tend to smell opportunities. The market has also become crowded with

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Philips Semiconductor: Sold

Philips spins off its chip business. KKR & Silverlake team up on this LBO deal, beating TPG, Bain Capital, Francisco Partners, Blackstone, Apax, etc. The disposal is part of a group strategy to move from a focus on high volume electronics and implementing a strategy to build a Healthcare, Lifestyle and Technology company with a

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