Who’ll get Digg? (Odds-on favorite and sources tell me much sooner than later: Google.)
And who might make a bid for Slide, RockYou, LinkedIn, Meebo or imeem? (It might be smart for News Corp. [NWS] to double down in the social- networking space, if it can’t trade MySpace for a piece of Yahoo.)
And what about a [...]
And, as BoomTown wrote yesterday, so the war of attrition for Yahoo begins.
Not with a bang, but a whimper. And so much whine, I am considering serving up a nice plate of cheese to all players.
But while the first moves by Microsoft (MSFT), which is seeking to take over Yahoo (YHOO), seem a bit [...]
Last night, BoomTown loaded the kids into the car–you try finding a sitter on a Tuesday night!–and went early to a pair of dot-com parties being thrown at some trendy spots in San Francisco related to the Web 2.0 Expo taking place this week.
Our quest was to find out what some savvy Web 2.0 types [...]
Oh, Max!
I just got through telling someone who asked me that I thought you, Slide founder Max Levchin, was one of the smarter Web 2.0 characters.
Then, of course, you get to be on the cover of Portfolio magazine for its “Brilliant” issue this month. Apparently, Max, you are Silicon Valley’s new “It” Boy.
But for all [...]
At some point and sooner than later, if I had to make a bet, Digg will be sold. And, likely as not, the most likely owner for the popular new site is Google.
And it is no real secret in Silicon Valley that the pair have been talking on and off for a while now, as Google mulls where to take Google News and Digg ponders how it can grow and improve its reliability by being linked to the largest and most neutral company it can.
“Completely inaccurate” does not even begin to get to the heart of the problem, but we’ll get to that later.
First, let’s see if we can sort this latest rumor about the acquisition fever wafting around the popular Digg news site, published by TechCrunch last week.
Its take: That Digg has been pitching itself for sale using [...]
Of course, of course.
After everyone and their mother (including our Voices site) posted this video below of Kina Grannis, the very compelling and obviously adorable singer whose clever ditty about Digg (complete with pop-up-from-behind-the-couch backup singers) became a viral hit last week, Hollywood arrives with potentially piqued interest.
This time it looks like Grannis is the [...]
It’s obvious at this point that acquisition deals are to Web 2.0 start-ups as IPOs were to Web 1.0 ones.
As far as bubbles go, I suppose that’s fine, since average investors are safe from the machinations of investment bankers and venture capitalists this time and the only ones at risk are the big companies overpaying [...]
I am at a new conference organized by August Capital’s David Hornik called The Lobby on the Big Island of Hawaii.
It is thick with Web 2.0 players, all here to interact and discuss issues, although without a formal program that is so typical of most Internet conferences.
In other words, the schmoozing in the halls [...]
It is no secret that Microsoft has a serious case of Google envy when it comes to the online ad business, after the typically dominating tech giant has continued to lag behind the search king in the lucrative business.
But it should also have become crystal clear by now that Microsoft–and especially its famously aggressive [...]
What is Om Malik going to announce at his party tomorrow night at the M. H. de Young Museum in San Francisco?
Valleywag wanted to know what the well-known tech blogger was up to, so we will tell them: an online television interview and analysis show on Revision3 called “The GigaOm Show.”
Along with tech lawyer [...]
While Walt and I will come up with our own questions for Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, who will be appearing in an historic joint interview at our D conference next Wednesday night, I was curious what others–some tech folks and some not in the industry–would ask the tech legends if they could [...]
What’s not to love about more “shaming videos,” as New York Times columnist Virginia Heffernan calls them in her “Screens” blog, which is a regular feature on the New York Times Web site. This week, she points to a video of former “Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff in a drunken stupor, which was shot by–wait for [...]
Digg Founder Kevin Rose looks unbruised in this video of me interviewing him at last week’s AlwaysOn OnHollywood event on a news panel, which also included the Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington and TMZ.com’s Alan Citron. This, despite the digital pummeling he and the social-networking news site had gotten the day before, after the site’s hyper-involved [...]
So Carson Daly, of all people, turns out to be an unlikely geek–but he sounded pretty sharp onstage interviewing a clutch of tech figures last night at the opening of AlwaysOn OnHollywood conference, the Tony Perkins-led event being held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood through tomorrow.
The late-night television host is involved with Demand Media, [...]
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