Decision Time For Yahoo
The dust is settling on Microsoft’s $31 per share offer to acquire Yahoo, and the options left open to the company are fairly well understood at this point.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/06/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Silicon Valley After a Microsoft/Yahoo Merger: a Contrarian View
What would a Microsoft/Yahoo merger mean for startups in Silicon Valley? Some smart people whom I respect a great deal believe that a Microsoft/Yahoo merger would...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/05/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Yahoo Holders: What Are You Waiting For?
For years they sat by while their company stumbled. From mid-2004 until last week their shares slumped by about 40%, while the rest of the stock market surged...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/05/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Google Courting Yahoo to Spurn Microsoft?
Yahoo Inc. would consider a business alliance with Google Inc. as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo's...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/04/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Yahoo Sells Premium Music Service To RhapsodyAmerica
Yahoo, which has officially closed down its premium online music service Yahoo Unlimited (we reported on it first here), has sold the service to RealNetworks and MTV...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/04/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Exclusive: Amid Yahoo Turmoil, AOL Makes An Acquisition
On Monday AOL will announce the acquisition of San Diego-based Goowy, a startup founded in late 2004 and which launched, incidentally, in my living room in late 2006...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/04/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Yahoo Sale Could Be Bad for Minnows
Microsoft’s proposed mega-bid for Yahoo is based on its own particular corporate needs and may not be a harbinger of rampant deal-making in Silicon Valley.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/03/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

101 Unconventional Sources for Entrepreneurial Funding
In today’s credit crunch, big banks are tightening up more than ever, and venture capitalists are becoming more careful with their investments.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/03/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

FAQ: What's Next for Microsoft's Yahoo Bid?
Microsoft faces several financial and legal hurdles on its way to wooing Yahoo to accept its $44.6 billion buyout bid.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/02/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

News Corp. Scrambles To Bid For Yahoo
The rumors keep on rolling around the surprise semi-hostile Microsoft bid for Yahoo this morning. Sillicon Alley Insider says they’ve heard that a couple of hedge funds...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/02/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Microsoft & Yahoo: Web 2.Over?
Microsoft has made a $44 billion bid to acquire Yahoo! Such aggressive takeovers generally occur either close to a top-when buyers are really...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/01/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Microsoft offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo
Microsoft Corp. on Friday offered to acquire search engine operator Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion in cash and stock in a move to boost its competitive position...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/01/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Yahoo to Acquire Maven Networks for $160M-$170M
Yahoo is close to acquiring enterprise video startup Maven Networks for between $160 million and $170 million, according to sources familiar with the deal. TechCrunch...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/01/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Chatty Zuckerberg Tells All About Facebook Finances
Want to know about how privately held Facebook is doing from a financial point of view? facebookmouth Well, just ask Mark Zuckerberg! This afternoon...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/01/2008 |  Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Amazon.com Buys Audible.com
Amazon.com’s march into digital distribution of content continues–this time with plans to acquire Audible for $300 million.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/31/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Got Cash? Let The Bidding Wars Begin
Apple, Google and Microsoft are flush with cash and could go on a shopping spree for startups at the upcoming entrepreneurial gathering.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/31/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Chiller Diller
What's happening to IAC/InterActiveCorp CEO Barry Diller can best be explained with a variation on Al Pacino's famous line from "The Godfather III" - just when Diller...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

eBay's PayPal Buys Israeli Start-Up
While we still are awaiting a pick-up of M&A with publicly traded Israeli stocks, another hot Israeli start-up was acquired on Monday.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Battelle Reportedly Turns Down $100 Million Offer For Federated Media
Blog ads are worth big bucks! How big? We may see soon: John Battelle has turned down a $100 million offer for Federated Media, TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld reports.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Sharks Circle Yahoo!
Yahoo! co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo still don't want to sell the struggling Internet company, but its stock price is so low that the duo may not be able...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Bill Gates Issues Call For Kinder Capitalism
Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates. But today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M
Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic and creator of open-source blogging system WordPress, stopped by my apartment earlier this week.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/23/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs in Their Own Bubble
"It's feeling awfully bubbly, isn't it?" one attendee close to the venture-capital industry confided. This was not a reference to the one free glass of champagne...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/23/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

WPP'S Chief To Net More For His Web
WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell - who's been on the prowl since buying online ad firm 24/7 Real Media last year - is close to making another significant acquisition...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/21/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Getty For Sale: Another Web-Ravaged Business
Anyone want the world's biggest image and video warehouse? The current owners of Getty Images are looking for someone to take the company off their hands...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/21/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

VC Investments Rise to Six-Year High
Venture capital investments in U.S. startups climbed to a six-year high of $29.4 billion in 2007, raising hope that ample money will still be available to back...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/20/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Slide: The $500 Million Widget
After cashing in big with PayPal, Max Levchin could be at it again with his social network tool. The latest funding values Slide at a half-billion.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/19/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Samwer Brothers Invest in Facebook
German Internet entrepreneurs, the Samwer Brothers, have become the latest new shareholders in Facebook, according to a Reuters story that cites one of the ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/16/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Facebook buying Plaxo?
Facebook is “one hundred percent” buying Plaxo, we’ve just heard from a source. This follows a rumor previously published by Valleywag asserting that such a ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/15/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Liberty Media Invests in Internet Firm IAC
Liberty Media Corp. said Friday it has continued its push into the Internet market by paying roughly $340 million to gain 30% of the economic value of shares of IAC...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/12/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

9 VCs You’re Gonna Want to Avoid
Editor’s Note: Fundraising is tough. So more and more of you bootstrap as long as you can. But once you get close to $1 million in revenues, VCs will come calling.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/08/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Microsoft Has Announced A Takeover Bid For Fast Search
Microsoft has made an offer to acquire enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer. Norway based Fast Search and Transfer offers enterprise...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/08/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Investors Said to Seek a Takeover of CNet
A group of investment funds has amassed a 21 percent stake in CNet and is seeking to oust its directors and take over a majority of its board.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/07/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Monster Acquires Affinity Labs For $61 Million
Online jobs firm Monster Worldwide has acquired SF-based Affinity Labs, a developer of community sites centered around various vocations, for $61 million in cash.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/05/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Chain Said to Seek Bids for Weather Channel
The Weather Channel, one of the last privately owned cable channels, is being put up for sale and could fetch $5 billion.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/03/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Plaxo Reportedly Hires Bank to Help it Sell Itself
We’ve already heard that Plaxo, a company that syncs your contacts’ details across your email and web services, has been trying to sell itself.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/03/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

The 2008 Venture Capital Outlook
VCs want to ride the momentum from NetSuite's Dec. 20 IPO into the New Year and cash out of companies they've held in their portfolios for years.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/02/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

VC's New Math: Does Less = More?
Three years ago, Peter Thiel, who runs a small venture-capital concern called Founders Fund, plowed $500,000 into a little-known social-networking Web site called Facebook...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/30/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

A Post-Google Fraternity of Investors
A growing number of Google millionaires are hoping to parlay their newfound wealth into even greater riches by bankrolling technology start-ups.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/28/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Digg This: Deal or No Deal?
CEO Jay Adelson discusses rumors that the thriving content-sharing site is up for sale and its plans for 2008.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/27/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Paris Is No Silicon Valley -- Yet
The missing piece is finally falling into place: the development of a startup "working class" of smart techies and ambitious entrepreneurs.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/26/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

HoHoHo: Digg Might Be Acquiring Menéame and CoRank
Spanish tech site Techtear is reporting that Digg may have acquired Spanish social voting site Menéame and possibly coRank as well.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/26/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Top 10 Startups Worth Watching in 2008
Credit crunch? Recession risk? You'd never know it, judging by the frenzy of startup activity. In fact, it's a pretty good time to start a company.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/24/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Breaking: Kayak Raises $196 Million, Buys Rival SideStep
Discount travel site Kayak has acquired rival SideStep for $200 million. This story was set to be announced tomorrow but word is leaking all over the place after Sidestep...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/21/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

A Social Order Shaped by Technology and Traffic
Silicon Valley is a collection of remarkably local clusters based on industry niches, skills, school ties, traffic patterns, ethnic groups and even weekend sports teams.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/20/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Venture Capitalists Love Tech -- Here's How to Compete
Whether you're a software start-up that sells to Fortune 500 companies or a Web 2.0 business, chances are you're raising eyebrows.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/19/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Digg Hires Bank, Hoping to Sell for $300 Million or More
It’s been a little more than a month since the last rumors surfaced about social news site Digg trying to sell itself for at least $300 million.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/18/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

A French Twist in Silicon Valley
With backing from high-profile investors, Loïc Le Meur is giving new meaning to the idea of "building a company online"
eBusiness News | Posted 12/18/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

NetSuite IPO Highlights Hot Software Space
NetSuite Inc., one of the pioneers in the rapidly growing business of selling software as a Web-based service, is expected to launch as a public company this week in what...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/18/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

AdReady nails $10 million from Bain, Khosla Ventures
Some heavyweight investors are lining up behind AdReady, the Seattle startup that is attempting to make it easier to place display advertising on Web sites.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/16/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Why Amazon Should Buy eBay
For years it was impossible to even suggest that Amazon buy eBay because eBay’s market value was three or four times that of Amazon.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/15/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions