On his way out of the door, Billg has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares. The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo’s board, is 62% above Yahoo’s closing share price on Thursday.
Yahoo confirmed that it has received an unsolicited offer and said that […]
Apparently, Nokia is in talks with Facebook about a potential partnership and investment, according to paidContent. The deal, if it goes ahead, would see a mobile version of Facebook being “ported” to Nokia mobile phones in a “major way”. Sounds a bit like Nokia are getting worried by the iPhone and want to latch onto the hottest web ticket.
Just when I thought I didn’t have enough work to do over at Penton Media, I’m working with a couple of New Media (I hate that term btw) experts on the definitive eMedia Wiki. This project is going to take up many hours, so I expect to be burning the midnight oil for at least, uh, the next 2 nights. Check out the New Media, sorry, eMedia Wiki. In fact, why don’t you check it out and contribute? Isn’t that the Web 2.0 way?
Search Wikia, from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to launch today and will try to upset MSN, Yahoo!, Ask and Dogpile and steal at least second place in the Search war. Jimmy W is hoping to develop in a similar fashion to Wikipedia, using an army of volunteer collaborators to build it […]
Same interweb stuff, different year should be this years mantra. MC Hammer, sorry, he’s just known as “Hammer” now-a-days is probably sick of the big-pants comments and wants to be known as a serious bithnessman. “There is no high-tech lingo or business strategy that you can talk that is above my head. I breath this stuff.” he told the AP whilst announcing DanceJam, the latest effort to topple YouTube and become a dominant player in the online video scene.
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