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more about #acquisitions more comments → Nelson Fartzenkraps: still no reply from gallagher? try reminding him that, back when he was a vassar coed, the campus newspaper dubbed him ‘hypocrite of the month’… more » insidefb: iLike was propped up by its nepotistic relationship with Facebook -- Ali and Hadi's relationships with Sandberg are well known. She used her influenc... more » prsiii: structuring a company for flipping (as is typically the unsaid case of those businesses who lack an obvious revenue channel) dooms it to failure if it... more » Mad Due to No More Bonnets: First of all, I loved it. Quick question though, are they panicked about the fire, or are they being brave for everyone else? more » badasscat: Bubble 2.0. A lot of the exact same mentality as in 1999. People who don't know jack about either the web or basic consumer behavior predicting wild... more » Richard Blakeley: I was just saying earlier to a few of our Gizmodo guys, "Hey remember when Facebook widgets and apps were the shit? What ever happened to those things... more » Say that is cool: Boy! Jemaine has really been working out. more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Sure, but if you're slick and quick you can put a few million bucks away before it all comes crashing down. more » The Lone Scout: Web two-point-no. more » Clarence Rosario: @ADismalScience: Except as a web application, MobileMe is garbage. The webmail interface itself is completely useless, and unacceptable as a paid serv... more » ADismalScience: I'd peg the success likelihood of this acquisition somewhere between AOL bad and YouTube bad. more » ADismalScience: Isn't this an obvious mobileme integration point? Twitter will never make money unless it's tied to some other subscription service, right? Mobileme's... more » Nicholas Carlson: Owen, you forgot to the write the part where you say this rumor is complete bullshit. more » DennyCrane: /head asplode more » Mayor McRib: I don't believe that Apple would buy Twitters developers for 700 million cash. I'm not saying that they are not making an offer to Twitter but it's no... more » -
#underminers
How the Times Sabotages Its Own Tech Innovation
Blogrunner is the nifty online news aggregator the New York Times keeps forgetting it bought. Now the newspaper's deputy tech editor has embarrassed the site in an online chat. More » -
#acquisitions
How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped
Two years ago, music service iLike appeared to be set: Its CEO said it was "made," its investor mused it could be a "billion-dollar winner," and the press was enthralled. Now the poster child is a cautionary tale. More » -
#rumormonger
Could Apple Buy Twitter?
Facebook tried to buy Twitter. Google and Microsoft have been giving the red-hot Internet-messaging startup the eye. But we hear it's Apple that's closest to sealing a deal, possibly for as much as $700 million.
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#buybacks
How eBay Can Have $3 Billion in the Bank and Still Be Broke
Look at eBay's books and it wouldn't seem to have money problems. But it's running a garage, unloading would-be Digg competitor StumbleUpon, and hopes to sell Internet phone service Skype. Why? More » -
#rumormonger
New AOL CEO Wants to Buy Twitter's Web Cool
An AOL tipster tells us incoming CEO Tim Armstrong, the Google sales veteran, wants to buy Twitter, the hot message-broadcasting startup. One problem: He hasn't even started at AOL yet. More » -
#shutuptwitter
Will Google Get Shamed Into Buying Twitter?
Real-time is the future of everything, someone wrote three seconds ago. And therefore, Google will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to buy Twitter! Welcome to the way acquisitions are done in Silicon Valley. More » -
#armchairgeneral
Why Amazon.com Should Buy Digg
Digg needs to sell itself. Kevin Rose's headline-voting site is drowning; the more popular it gets, the more red ink it generates. But who needs a bunch of news stories rated? Here's an idea: Amazon.com. More » -
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#acquisitions
Facebook's failed $500 million offer for Twitter? Totally happened.
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#meltdowns
CEO's $500,000 Salary Burns Startup Into Fire Sale
8020 Media hoped to revolutionize the magazine business. Instead, it has circled down the drain, ending up in the hands of shadowy investors after a new CEO with a Condé Nast résumé looted the startup. More » -
#bloggingfordollars
Yahoo Might Buy Tumblr, New York's Cutest Startup
We hear Yahoo is in talks to buy Tumblr, a blogging startup run by 22-year-old David Karp for "low-to-mid eight figures" — which would translate to a small fortune for the New York entrepreneur. More » -
#techcrunch
Michael Arrington Wishes He Could Quit Us
TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, left distraught after a stranger spat on him at a tech conference in Munich, promised he'd take February off. Two days in, he's having a hard time leaving the Internet. More » -
#acquisitions
The Unbearable Yahoo-AOL-Microsoft Dance
Someone buy something, please. Our New York sighting of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer with Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock missed one: Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, who'd like to unload AOL. More » -
#nerdspotting
Microsoft CEO, Yahoo Chairman Meet in New York
So much for a new boss ending Yahoo's drama. Why did the company's chairman meet Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at the Time Warner Center Thursday, two days after Yahoo named Carol Bartz its new CEO? More » -
#startups
Dodgeball, Overhyped and Underused, Deserved to Die
Google has axed six services, from Google Video uploads to a shopping-catalog search. But none has sparked more outrage than the closure of Dodgeball.com. Dennis Crowley, the friend-locating service's twentysomething founder, is miffed. More » -
#suedecker
Yahoo's Depressing Backup Plan
No one wants to buy Yahoo. And the only person who wants to run Yahoo is an insider who helped sink it. Is there any hope left for the beleaguered Web giant? More » -
#blackholes
It Costs Digg $5 Million a Year to Run the Internet
Perhaps Digg really is the future of the news business. The headline-discussion site, once an icon of the Web 2.0 movement, is losing millions of dollars a year.
