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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
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Web 3.0 & IAC (Part 4)
Acquisition Targets IAC has made a host of acquisitions in the past few years in the Internet space. IAC acquired Ask.com in 2005 for $1.9 billion. Over the past two years it has made some interesting acquisitions including Shoebuy and CollegeHumour. The table below lists all the acquisitions made by IAC between 2001 and 2006.
Web 3.0 & News Corp (Part 5)
Synthesis and Conclusions For the year ended June 30, 2007, News Corp. earned $28.66 billion in revenues, $4.45 billion in operating income and $3.43 in net income. Fox Interactive Media (FIM) earned $10 million in profits on sales of $550 million in FY2007. FIM’s revenues in Q4 2007 doubled from the same quarter a year
Web 3.0 & News Corp (Part 4)
Acquisition Targets Over the years, News Corp. has been acquiring businesses that would help it close the gaps in its portfolio. The MySpace acquisition helped it to leapfrog in the social networking space and with the recent acquisition of Dow Jones it will emerge as a leading player in the financial news and information space.
Web 3.0 & News Corp (Part 3)
Web 3.0 Framework discussion Context News Corp. has got its Context right. Be it sports (FoxSports or Scout), entertainment (Fox or AmericanIdol), Social Networking (MySpace), games (IGN or GameSpy), Men (AskMen) or Photo-sharing (Photobucket) the Company is bang on in terms of Context. If I am looking for men’s fashion and lifestyle information, there is
Web 3.0 & News Corp (Part 1)
Introduction News Corporation is a $28.66 billion diversified media and entertainment company. The Company operates in eight business segments: Filmed Entertainment, Television, Cable Network Programming, Direct Broadcast Satellite Television, Magazines and Inserts, Newspapers, Book Publishing and Interactive Media primarily in the United States, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, Asia and the Pacific Basin. News
WSJ’s Subscription Business Can Go
Business Week has a good analysis of the prospective demise of WSJ’s subscription business under Murdoch’s regime. “For The Wall Street Journal Online, going free will come at a high cost. The daily financial newspaper is one of the few major publications to successfully charge for access to most of its online content, earning roughly
Financial Media Comparison Chart
I did some digging into the various business and financial media sites last night, and here are some stats. Alexa Ranks: (Yahoo! Finance and MSN Money are not included in this list, because I cannot find Alexa ranks for them.) * CNNMoney.com: 76 * Forbes.com 483 * Marketwatch.com 1,032 * WSJ.com: 1,043 * Businessweek.com 1,310
Murdoch Gets Dow Jones, Now What?
As expected, Rupert Murdoch has successfully negotiated for himself a position in the Business and Finance vertical with a crown jewel brand, The Wall Street Journal. Here’s my previous analysis on why this deal is a good one. I really like News Corp’s verticalization strategy. James Altucher asked Jim Cramer, “What’s the one thing the
