Valuation
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Ex-MySpace CEO wants to gamble on social games
News In Chris DeWolfe's new venture, sources say, he'll attempt to snowball a bunch of social online games properties and pit himself against industry leader Mark Pincus of Zynga.
Tags: Games, Facebook, MySpace, Rupert Murdoch, CEO, Online Game, News Corp., entertainment, TechCrunch, private equity
EA-Playfish: Social gaming deals gain buzz
News Electronic Arts' acquisition underscores booming demand for online social games and may prompt rival game publishers to follow suit.
Tags: Game players, Games, Gamer, Facebook, Apple Inc., UbiSoft Entertainment, casual game, console game, Playfish, revenue
Research: Twitter has yet to grow into valuation
News Company is worth significantly less than US$1 billion, one company surmises. That's in part because the effectiveness of its possible business plan is still up in the air.
Tags: Web 2.0, Internet advertising
Another US$100 million for Twitter?
News Private equity firm T. Rowe Price and VC group Insight Venture Partners are leading the round, which will value the company at around US$1 billion, says report.
Tags: Web 2.0, T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Dashboard, analytics, TechCrunch, founder, valuation, Wall Street Journal, mutual fund, Web 2.0
Twitter hits 5 billion tweets
News Twitter hits landmark tweet amid recent explosion of mainstream and celebrity use of the microblogging service.
Tags: Twitter Inc., dot-com, Bay Area, San Francisco, co-founder, valuation
Twitter on the verge of big search deals?
News Microsoft and Google are separately talking to the company about potentially licensing its massive amounts of real-time data to supplement search results, new report says.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Data Management, Data mining & analysis, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., search engine, Microsoft Corp., revenue
Israel's high-tech IPO market falls flat in '08
News The country didn't see a single high-tech initial public offering last year, a first since 2003.
Tags: Mergers, IPO, high-technology company, Israel, technology company, CEO, leader, valuation, venture-capital fund, merger
Facebook ousts CFO Gideon Yu
News Facebook confirmed that CFO Yu will be leaving the company. Now the big question is, why?
Tags: Human resources, CFO, IPO, GAAP, Gideon Yu, Gideon, EBITDA, Facebook, financial, valuation
Motorola's fourth-quarter loss hits US$3.6B
News Trouble in the company's Mobile Devices segment was a significant factor in the loss. Overall revenue of US$7.1 billion was down 26 percent year-on-year.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Forecasting, Handhelds, Smart phones, Mobile, Motorola Inc., Mobile Device, Sales, Forecasting, financial
Facebook stock for sale
News Top execs at the social network are selling shares--at prices far lower than the site's once-vaunted US$15 billion valuation.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Employee, Google Inc., Stock, venture capital, social networking, software, Facebook, valuation
Intel investing US$20M in business social-net firm
News Already a client of Telligent, Intel is infusing the software company with millions to expand its reach and sales team.
Tags: Investments, Venture capital, Business applications, Intel Corp., Advertisement, Dallas, Associated Press, software, Visa Inc., marketing
Yahoo 12-month price target cut
News Wall Street analyst trims company's 12-month price target to US$24 a share. Meanwhile, Yahoo's stock dips as low as US$17.25 in early morning trading.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Paid Search, Advertisement, antitrust, valuation, shareholder, U.S.
Tech M&A spending takes steep hit in third quarter
News Tech mergers and acquisitions fell by a third in the September quarter, fueled by credit tightening and havoc on Wall Street, according to a report by The 451 Group.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Quarter, Google Inc., M&A, technology company, financial, financial analyst, bank, valuation
Apple shares drop 17.5 percent
News The company's shares experience a sharp dropoff in early morning trading, after Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets downgrade the stock.
Tags: Mac OS, Personal Computers, Apple Inc., Morgan Stanley, RBC Capital Markets, Apple Macintosh, Stock, earnings per share, unit growth, Environment
Apple's cash conundrum
News news analysis Its stash may soon be bigger than Microsoft's. But should all those billions continue to lie dormant?
Tags: Mac OS, Personal Computers, Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Apple Inc., marketing, bank, valuation, managing director, revenue
