BoomTown is suffering from Rupert Murdoch déjà vu.
Back in July, I actually wrote a post about the head of News Corp. (owner of Dow Jones and this site) in which the first sentence was: “MySpace and Yahoo should merge.”
I was referencing a very interesting comment that Murdoch made in an interview in June of 2007 with Time’s Eric Pooley.
In it, he floated the idea of trading a 25 percent stake of Yahoo for MySpace.
That is all.
Wait, not all. The report that it has signed a bill of sale earlier this week that “definitely happened”: It definitely did not.
What is true: Bebo is raising money and it is open to selling and there has been interest. But, in two words: No sale.
Nonetheless, TechCrunch, the popular tech blog that has [...]
First, Google and News Corp. are not about to buy Bebo for $1 billion to $1.5 billion.
Second, Bebo–as has been reported and is easy to find out about by anyone who can pick up a phone and ask around like a reporter is supposed to–has been working on raising a round of funding with Allen [...]
Lots of people were bellyaching about the lackluster nature of Bill Gates’s final performance at CES last night–long on deals and stats and short on the futuristic predictions Gates often makes.
Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski was unimpressed, as were Duncan Riley of TechCrunch and ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, for example.
But, to my mind, giving the Microsoft [...]
What a slimy mess the “Here Comes Another Bubble” is leaving in its wake as it travels all over the Web.
Today, Daryl Lang of PDNPulse, a blog from Photo District News, reported that it contacted more photographers whose pictures were used in the popular Web 2.0-mocking video by the San Francisco-based singing group, the [...]
Is there no end to my groveling?
Apparently not, if it has the effect yesterday’s round of begging had by more than doubling our donor numbers and adding more than $1,500 to the AllThingsD kitty in only one day, after this post in which I egregiously use the musical stylings of Barbra Streisand to plague Yahoo [...]
Today, we post below our most pathetic video ever in our attempt to garner donations for DonorsChoose.org, using (and abusing) our favorite icon, Miss Barbra Streisand.
Last week, I wrote about October Tech Blogger Challenge on the the charity site called DonorsChoose.org, which funds classroom projects in high-need public schools, using the Web to match teacher [...]
News Corp. President and COO Peter Chernin made a funny last week in a video interview on FT.com.
At first, it was all business when Chernin said while he had a “healthy” level of respect and paranoia for Facebook–which is the hot-on-its-heels-second social network breathing down the neck of News Corp.-owned MySpace–that in most countries MySpace [...]
Good god, Google at $2,000 a share?
Oh, it’s just that Web sprite Henry Blodget, at it again, over at his blog on his site Silicon Alley Insider.
The former Wall Street analyst enjoyed brief fame in the last Internet mania for predicting that Amazon stock would go to $400 a share (and it did–but not for long!). Then later, he got investigated for touting stocks publicly that he disdained privately and, thus, was barred from the securities industry for life.
Yesterday, the can’t-help-himself Blodget wrote a much-noticed post arguing that the search giant’s stock could go nuclear.
Our John Paczkowski of Digital Daily continued to brave the potential for falling ill from start-up fatigue from his hysterically funny live-blogging of Jason Calacanis’s and Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch40 conference, while BoomTown continued to wander the halls in search of snacks and a safe haven from PR minions.
To no avail, although we did have a [...]
I know it might begin to feel as if the “fake” Web site trend could be waning after the unmasking of the popular Fake Steve Jobs. (Is it just me or do you feel a touch of ennui, like after Sam and Diane finally did it on “Cheers”?)
But judging from the fake CrunchFood site, a [...]
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 [...]
You’ve come a short way, baby–at least by the looks of the new television ad touting the recent redesign of Ask.com, the search engine that is too big to be in the other category and yet still not Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. And that’s a shame.
But being No. 5–unfortunately, in this case–requires some showmanship, if [...]
In what I can only describe as a sentimental-veering-toward-weepy riff on the ongoing saga of “Silicon Valley Bubble: The Sequel,” TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington waxes on about the need for a downturn to stop the madness.
“Times are good, money is flowing, and Silicon Valley sucks,” he writes in earnest about how all that was once [...]
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