Priceline Continues to Soar to New Heights

Priceline.com (PCLN) recently announced their Q4 2007 results and very soon its stock price reached a new 52 week high of $129.24. The share is currently trading marginally above the $120 mark, having proved all critics wrong, and boasts a 52-week range of $51.61 – $129.24. This shouldn’t be happening in a recession, according to

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Blue Nile’s Blues

Blue Nile (NASDAQ:NILE) is the leading online retailer in diamonds and jewelry. A month ago, they announced their Q4 2007 results. Their Q4 sales of $111.9 million were 23.3% higher than the previous year Q4 sales. Over the same period, their orders increased by 14.9% and average selling price per order went up to $1,411

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Expedia and the Web 3.0 Trends

Expedia.com (NASDAQ: EXPE), reported their Q4 2007 revenues on Feb 7. With annual global bookings just short of $20 billion, they are the world’s largest online travel agency. I have covered Expedia’s business offerings in the Web 3.0 series in detail. Let’s take a look at their latest financials.

Deal Radar 2008: Glam Media’s Fashion Forays

Glam Media is a women-focused distributed media network that represents and packages content from over 400 sources including fashion blogs, websites and magazines. Along with Glam.com, its flagship, it brings together content relevant to women while giving advertisers an efficient access to fragmented inventory. It is one of the companies we covered earlier in Women

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Entrepreneurial Executives?

I wrote this post on February 11, and have received a large stream of deals that are looking for financing. As I am working through these, it is becoming obvious to me that in most cases, the ventures need a couple of more key people in specific functions.

Deal Radar 2008: Groople, Interesting Use of Context

Groople is an online group travel site, which helps with searching, planning and booking group travel. (Read my Interview with Groople CEO Mike Stacy) Groople is different from Expedia and Kayak in that it serves only group travelers, no individuals, and is thus a great focus on a specific “Context“.

Media Industry Worth Watching in 2008

2007 was a not a pleasant year for the Media Industry. Most of the Media stocks including IAC, Walt Disney, News Corp. and Time Warner have undergone correction between 10% to 40%. Except Walt Disney, all other stocks are trading close to at their 52-week lows. Most of the companies have reported below the Street’s

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Help Me Name This Baby

Readers, I need your help. My now famous Web 3.0 framework needs a better name. Can you help me name this baby in a way that it transcends the versioning of the web?