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nokia
Scoop: Nokia buys Ryze business networking
Nokia is buying (or investing in) business networking site Ryze, a LinkedIn competitor that started around the same time as Friendster. More »
weblogs, inc.
The founders of the Weblogs Inc. Network sold their Blogsmith blogging platform to AOL (who bought WIN in 2005) last week, according to founder Jason Calacanis. Sounds like AOL paid $4-5 million. The deal wasn't public until now. More »
Scoop: Weblogs Inc. owners sell Blogsmith to AOL
The founders of the Weblogs Inc. Network sold their Blogsmith blogging platform to AOL (who bought WIN in 2005) last week, according to founder Jason Calacanis. Sounds like AOL paid $4-5 million. The deal wasn't public until now. More »
riya
Riya launches Like.com: That world-changing image search technology is now a shopping site
Remember Riya, the image search site that was going to Change The World by searching images not through tags, but through analyzing the actual content of a photo? Well now you can use it to buy handbags. More »
google
Behind the deal: How Google bought a lawsuit (and knew it)
"Google in bid to halt YouTube legal threat," shouts the Financial Times. "Google is engaged in a frantic round of negotiations aimed at persuading traditional media companies to supply their content to YouTube, the video website it bought last month for $1.65bn, and ward off a potentially crippling round of lawsuits." More »
reddit
The existential monologues of a Reddit millionaire
Dot-com millionaires should be unequivocally giddy, right? Not this one. Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit, has been writing intriguing, at times haunting, essays about Wired's purchase of his startup, and his new wealth. In "The Afterparty, for example, he writes: More »
google
Behind the deal: JotSpot price rumored at $50 million
Word is that Google paid $50 million when it recently bought JotSpot (a deal that was arranged over a month ago but was only announced yesterday). Word also is that JotSpot's technology is a piece of crap — which its competitors gleefully acknowledge, though in more appropriate terms. So why did Google dump that much money? More »
valleyspeak
Valleyspeak: "Not safe for coffeeshops"
The language is wilting. Time for a new batch of words. More »
reddit
Behind the deal, volume IV: Reddit cofounder talks about Wired buyout
The Wired News director who will oversee Reddit now that it's owned by Wired parent Condé Nast, already explained Wired's plan for the social bookmark site to Valleywag. Now Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian offers Reddit's take on the news coverage and the site's future. More »
reddit
Behind the deal, volume III: Wired buys Reddit
As TechCrunch reported and Reddit announced this morning, Condé Nast bought social bookmarking site Reddit. I talked to Wired Digital general manager Kourosh Karimkhany, who will directly oversee Reddit as a Wired property. More »
jotspot
Behind the Acquisition, Volume II: Google buys JotSpot
Google just bought JotSpot, a collaborative wiki creation site, for an undisclosed amount (if you know the price, e-mail tips@valleywag.com). JotSpot announced the buyout on the corporate blog, and CNet picked up the story. More »
startups
Behind the Acquisition, Volume I: SideStep buys TravelPost
Quick, guess the travel startup getting bought today! (Update: It's TravelPost, bought by another startup, SideStep.) A reader tells Valleywag: More »
aol
Five reasons Yahoo should stop trying to buy AOL
Each Yahoo acquisition prediction — will they buy Facebook? YouTube? Ebay? Will they sell to Disney? — is followed by expert analyses of each theoretical deal's implications. So now that Fortune says Yahoo wants to buy AOL from Time Warner, let's list the... More »
facebook
Faceoff: Yahoo still wimping out on Facebook
After three months of stalled talks, reports the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo is still nowhere close to buying Facebook. the real question is no longer "when will Yahoo buy Facebook" but "why hasn't Facebook walked away?" And the answer is that Facebook must be more desperate than they pretend. More »
microsoft
GoogTube aftermath: What is Blinkx, and do lawsuits have an economy of scale?
- The copyright issue: The top question after Google buys YouTube is, "Will media companies sue over pirated content?" If they do, Google is ready, thanks to its experience defending Google Book Search against publishers, keeping Google Video out of its own copyright suits, and years of fighting for the right to host image thumbnails and cached web pages.
yahoo
Yahoo needs to buck up and make a big deal
The New York Times takes a good look at Yahoo's woes today (even throwing in this shot of CEO Terry Semel looking like beleaguered Battlestar Galactica leader Colonel Adama), particularly its struggle to upgrade its advertising system and its inability to land a deal without Google swooping in. More »
lala
CD-swapping site LaLa used some of its nine million bucks to buy an resurrect a dead Internet radio station, WOXY. Just when you thought a site already made obsolete by Amazon, eBay, and iTunes couldn't get any more irrelevant, ya know?
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Everyone must get sold
CD-swapping site LaLa used some of its nine million bucks to buy an resurrect a dead Internet radio station, WOXY. Just when you thought a site already made obsolete by Amazon, eBay, and iTunes couldn't get any more irrelevant, ya know?
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