Archive for October, 2007

Alibaba set to be second biggest internet IPO ever

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

China’s high-flying Internet stocks are about to get a major addition when B2B marketplace Alibaba goes public on November 6. The IPO is on track to raise $1.5 billion for the Chinese Internet company, according to Bloomberg. That would make it the second-biggest Internet IPO ever, after Google’s $1.9 billion offering in 2004. [Techcrunch]
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Why Facebook may be worth $15bn

Monday, October 29th, 2007

BBC wrote an interesting article ‘15 reasons Facebook may be worth $15bn’ following Microsoft stakes buying of the social network side which valued it with a market worth of $15bn…
I like their last point actually…
Facebook is worth $15bn only because Microsoft says so. The value of Facebook is based on a 1.6% share of the […]

Microsoft buys stake in Facebook

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Microsoft has paid $240m for a 1.6% stake in Facebook that values the hugely popular social networking site at $15bn.
Facebook spurned an offer from Microsoft’s rival Google, which was also keen to invest the site.
Microsoft will also sell internet ads for Facebook outside the United States as part of the deal that took several weeks […]

Google on PR witch hunt

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

It seems like Google is going on a witch hunting against sites that are participating in some link scheme, by lowering the Page Rank of those sites.
At the moment some big names are having their PR downgraded. Sites that worked in a blogging network seem like the most affected group.
Searchengineland compiled a good list […]

PC Magazine’s 100 Favourite Blogs

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

100 favourite blogs according to PC Magazine’s staff; check it out…
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2192058,00.asp