Craigslist Archive

Henry Misses Nasdaq Shoot, and Somehow I Don't Miss Him...

Just kidding, Henry. I *always* miss you. But I had way more fun with Aaron Task today than I do on our usual satellite bicoastal segments, even though I got drenched on the way to the Nasdaq this morning! Thought I'd share a few of our segments with you very, very techy folk who are too cool for Yahoo. (Does that mean I think Sarahlacy.com is cooler? I'll answer with Owen Thomas' favorite haughty expression of mine: Duh!)

Before we get to the clips, note that Yahoo has finally released some of Tech Ticker's numbers. (They've had me gagged.)

Not a Fight eBay Wants to Pick

More has come to light of the weird eBay-Craigslist spat. Cnet has a nice breakdown.  In short, Craigslist felt eBay's classified site Kijiji breached some arrangement about eBay competing with Craigslist, so they diluted their share a few points. eBay now can't have a director on Craigslist's board.

I'm not attorney, but it's unclear to me why eBay would have legal rights here. It's a minority shareholder. Aren't there always provisions to allow companies to dilute shareholders, should they suddenly be perceived as a threat? If any attorneys are reading please let me know.

More to the point-- is this really a fight eBay wants to pick?

Why I Don't Work at a Newspaper, Part One Zillion

great video by henry and aaron yesterday on just how bad it is in print.

Impressive Feat by SAI

I'm very busy earning my three-day-a-week keep at Yahoo this way-too-early Monday morning, but I hope to carve out some time to go through Silicon Alley Insider's SAI 25 index today. It's a list of the 25 most valuable private digital companies. Folks, these things are hard to produce. For one thing, getting the real numbers can be an Oceans 11-heist-style feat of reporting. Plus, a private company is typically valued on its potential not its revenues-- or even more subjective, it's valued on what it's worth for others to put money in the company. (i.e. Facebook, Microsoft and that $15 billion valuation)

While Facebook is no. 1 on the list-- at $9 billion, not $15 billion-- there are some surprises.