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InfoSpace’s Slide Down
It all began exactly 12 years back in August 1995 when Netscape Communications came out with an IPO. With no profit in its book to show, Netscape nevertheless sold stocks worth $2.2 billion. Thus commenced the Dotcom era. InfoSpace founder Navin Jain, who then worked for MSN, soon left to start his own company in
Tom Tom + Tele Atlas: Perfect Match
If there is ever a perfect marriage, this could be it. Tom Tom’s (AMS: TOM2) planned acquisition of Tele Atlas (AMS: TA) is perfect in more senses than one. For one thing, both are Dutch companies, with synergistic businesses, and a merger integration will be dramatically easier based on that reason alone. But of course,
Facebook’s Monetization Strategy (Part 3)
I’ll give you one more vertical, and then stop. You can figure out the rest yourselves. Travel is a great vertical for Facebook, and in fact, creating contextual services like Group Travel could be very cool. According to the latest data published by eMarketer, online travel sales zoomed to over $78.8 billion in 2006 in
Entrepreneurship Case Studies
You have read many of my interviews on this blog. Here’s a synthesis of some of the case studies I have done, in an interview format. These differ slightly from the series that I have titled Role Model Interviews, since in this series, I go into the company and its strategy, market, financing, etc. in
ZipRealty+Zillow?
Google recently launched an offering called GoogleBase. In April 2006, SEO consultant Shimon Sandler reported that Google has launched what he termed as Google Real Estate in secret beta on top of this platform. Indeed, as Shimon pointed out, a search for the term ‘homes for sale’ in Google fetched the top result that offered
It’s About Place (Part 4)
by Cal McElroy, Guest Author I started this series on Local Search by discussing the current state of the technologies, content, and user experience. For Local Search to become a significant business, like paid keyword search, much needs to change. Google dominates the business of keyword search because they started with a great search service…
Web 3.0 and Expedia
We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel, TripAdvisor, Travelocity and Orbitz from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at Expedia’s offering. Expedia is the largest online travel content company, headquartered in Bellevue, WA. The Company is the third largest travel company in the US,
Wize Needs Integrated User Experience
We have reviewed the business story of Wize.com, now let’s take a look at their product from my Web 3.0 framework perspective. Context The Context in which you would come to Wize, is Product Research. The key to Wize is the Wize Rank, which is algorithmically derived from Expert Reviews and User Reviews culled from
