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Twitter is a micro-blogging site that has taken the web by storm. It is a social network that allows users to post “status update” messages either through the web, instant messenger or through a text message from a mobile phone. An update can be a maximum of 140 words. It could be of the nature, […]
By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author
As I looked at the positives of QCOM acquiring IDCC, I threw a number between $35 and $45 as a possible sale price. This price was based on a mix of historic data projection, IDCC’s current stock price and the perceived value to QCOM. I revisited the topic recently to do […]
SM: What was the market landscape like when you founded the company?
CL: When we started Travel Ad Network, Google AdSense had just launched its textlink product and everything was about textlinks and performance advertising. No one talked about users; it was all about clicks.
And the terms “branding” and “online” weren’t used in the same […]
NY Times has an article: Many Are Already at Work on Fulfilling Gates’s Vision, to which one reader comments:
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bill gates has never done anything new in his life - he has stolen everything he built his company on. this is once again a gates lie. yes he made a lot of money from his thefts. […]
Predictably, Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) posted a 23% drop in its 4Q07 profit and forecasted 2008 revenues that were below the Street’s expectation. The stock was down over 10% in after-hours trading. The market cap has eroded to the tune of $25 Billion in the last two years. So how do we play the stock going forward?
SM: Where did you get the idea for your current venture?
CL: When I wrote a business plan for online advertising on Fodors.com, I knew that Fodor’s had an affluent audience eager to spend thousands of dollars planning the best two weeks of their year. This is an appealing prospect to advertisers.
But at Rough Guides […]
Jeff Katz told me about the Tag when I interviewed him in the Fall, but I promised not to write about it. Well, now the announcement is out. Tag is the new reading product from Leapfrog, replacing the LeapPad franchise that took the company to heights in 2003.
In the world of entrepreneurship, a universally accepted doctrine is doing more with less. I bring you an entrepreneur in this case study series who has done exactly that. Cree Lawson, Founder CEO of Travel Ad Network (TAN), is our guest this time, and will share his story in all its blood, sweat and tear. […]
