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May 12, 2008

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.)


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April 30, 2008

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?

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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.

April 28, 2008

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.

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