Yahoo! To Buy MySpace? More Like News Corp To Buy Yahoo!

The Times newspaper reports that Yahoo! and News Corp. are in discussions for Yahoo! to give up 25% of its equity, worth $9B at today’s prices, in return for MySpace. Well, they should know - after all, News Corp. owns The Times.
What’s amazing about this is that the paper appears to suggest that [...]

Photobucket Sold To MySpace for $250M now plus $50M later

Techcrunch is reporting that the photo sharing company Photobucket is to be acquired by News Corp company MySpace. At the end of March, I wrote a blog on how to value photo widget / photo sharing companies. I predicted then that anyone who wanted to acquire Photobucket would have to pay significantly more [...]

On The Ning Value Proposition

Well, Ning version 2 is out! So, many congratulations to all the people at Ning - it’s always a big deal to get something new launched!
With version 2 being fresh, now would seem a good time to take stock of Ning’s core value proposition. The Ning value proposition seems to be thus: [...]