Tag: new york times

  • Yahoo! indirectly upping the cost of acquisition for Microsoft?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Microsoft made an offer of $44.6bn for Yahoo! recently which Yahoo! rejected saying it “substantially undervalues” the company (personally I think it waaaaay overvalued Yahoo! and Microsoft caught a lucky break that the offer was spurned). The New York Times is reporting today though that Microsoft are determined to follow through on this. However, both…

  • Will the Irish Times ever learn?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Back in September the New York Times went from a subscription model to free for almost all of its content. The thinking being that the ad revenue from the extra pageviews would be greater than the loss in subs. The Wall Street Journal has now gone the free route too. According to this Associated Press…

  • Microsoft buys 1.6% of FaceBook for $240m

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    Tom Raftery
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    The New York Times is reporting this morning that Microsoft has bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240m, this values the company at $15bn. This values Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 23 year old founder at $3bn and Accel Partners, the venture capital firm that invested $12.7 million in May 2005 now owns 11 percent of…