The end of exits?
The 2k crisis almost killed the IPOs for tech startup. None of the Web2.0 big guys have been able to IPO since the installation of the SOX regulations (I am not making any judgment here). The current crisis which is refered as “liquidity crisis” is probably killing the “mergers and acquisitions”. What’s remaining to exit [...]
Teen Blog platforms: mature?
It’s only Tuesday and yet, 2 very big blogging platform have been put for sale : LiveJournal which has actually already been sold to SUP and Skyblog, the biggest European blogging platform/network. Correct me if I am wrong but these platforms are a lot comparable and I am sure that we could get some lessons [...]
Facebook & Microsoft
Today, at 2PM PST, Microsoft and Facebook announced that the first one invested $240,000,000 in the second one, on a valuation of $15,000,000,000. This is a very big move for Microsoft that had been fighting with Google for this deal. One might smile if he recalls Steve Ballmer’s sentences about Facebook earlier this month : [...]
