Deal Radar 2008: Flock

Flock is an open source web browser that has social networking features built into its interface. Founded by Bart Decrem, Geoffrey Arone, and Anthony Young in 2005, Flock is headquartered in Redwood City, California and has an office in Victoria, British Columbia.

Internet Stock Roundup: SFLY, MNST, NFLX

This quarter doesn’t look so good for quite a few of the online stocks that I cover. Shutterfly and Monster are facing an economic slowdown environment. Netflix may actually be benefiting from the slowdown since people tend to stay at home during recessions, and not eat out, go to the movies, or spend gas money

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Media Conglomerates Roundup: IACI, TWX, VIA

Some of the media stocks worth watching reported their Q1 earnings recently.

Deal Radar 2008: Comcast Buys Plaxo

Just as I said Comcast has not been doing anything to beef up its internet portfolio, they announced the acquisition of Plaxo for an estimated $150 Million.

Vision India 2020: Lucid

In 2004, we started investigating the issue of K-12 education, especially in Math and the Sciences. As part of this endeavor, we interviewed a number of teachers at various high schools in the Bay Area. Two nuggets came out of these interviews (1) there is no standardized methodology of teaching (2) there is no methodology

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Online Travel: Priceline Prospers, Expedia & Orbitz Slow

Last week, the key online travel players announced their Q1 results and it was quite a mixed bag as expected by some of them.

NILE, ZIPR DOWN; WBMD, MNSTR UP

Last week quite a few of the companies I have covered in the Web 3.0 analysis released their Q1 results. While some showed impressive performance, quite a few were battling the recession. Here is an analysis of some of these stocks.

Disney Delights, Netflix Not

I have covered the online movies section earlier in my Web 3.0 analysis. Two relevant companies in the discussion recently announced their results.