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YouTube, one of the most successful exits of the Web 2.0 era, needs little introduction. YouTube’s single biggest contribution is that it brought into the mainstream the concept of sharing videos online. YouTube shot into limelight when Google acquired
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Gemstar-TV Guide International has done some more small online acquisitions, after buying Jumptheshark.com last year. It has bought several TV-focused site: TVShowsOnDVD.com, TV-now.com, and FansofRealityTV.com, as well as some assets of TV listings start
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The company, in an effort to bring up money for this, has sold itself to video search and aggregation site GoFish, for about $30 million in stock (GoFish is traded on OTC board). UMG sued video sharing sites Grouper and Bolt.com for allowing users to swa
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Chad Hurley received 694,087 Google shares and another 41,232 shares in a trust. Based on Google’ market price of $470.01, that values Hurley’s stake at $345.6 million. -- Co-founder Steve Chen received 625,366 Google shares and another 68,721 in a t
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The shares of our Class A common stock that may be offered by each selling stockholder using this prospectus represent shares of our Class A common stock that we issued to such selling stockholder in connection with our acquisition of YouTube, Inc. We w
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HandHeld Entertainment™ (NASDAQ: ZVUE, ZVUEW) today announced it has acquired Putfile.com™, a leading free digital media service featuring user-generated content for approximately $7.1 million ($1.08 million in cash and approximat
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Hello to everyone in the vlogosphere. First of all, thank you Peter and Devlon (and the many others involved) for creating such a great tool for videobloggers. Your hard work and support for Mefeedia shows. As far as plans for Mefeedia, i was actually loo
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Eigentlich ist Firmenbewertung ja ganz einfach: Man berechnet die zukünftigen Cash Flows, diskoniert sie mit einem angemessenen Renditesatz ab und kriegt ganz einfach die faire Bewertung zum heutigen Zeitpunkt (die theoretischen Details spare ich mir hie
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For a company like Yahoo, social networking is not a market that they should buy into. Yes, Murdoch needed to, being a traditional media company with no real Internet competency. Even Google’s acquisition of YouTube made sense from the perspective of co
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In den frühen Morgenstunden des Donnerstags bekamen die beiden Beteiligungsgesellschaften Permira und KKR den Zuschlag. Pro Sieben Sat. 1 hat das inzwischen bestätigt.Zumindest für Permira ist der deutsche Medienmarkt vertrautes Terrain. Der Finanzinve
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12.5 percent of the equity issued and issuable is subject to escrow for one year to secure certain indemnification obligations. Based on the $1.5 billion amount, that should be about $187.5 million.
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Armed with this kitty of money Youtube approached the media companies with an open checkbook to buy peace. The media companies smelled a transaction when Youtube radically changed their initial 'revenue sharing' offer to one laden with cash.
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but the truth is that, across 20 major deals, those 3 stand out as the exception and not the rule. It appears that, on average, deals are generally below $50 million and, in most cases, lower than $10 million.
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Ahh, so that’s what Google is getting with its $1.6 billion. It is building a moat around its advertising sales force and saying “you can’t get your hands on our advertisers.”
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Google has to amplify (and protect) it's key revenue stream - ppc. Video ppc is a higher value domain, and a hugely untapped one. Google wants assets at the edges of the value chain which can exert market power against 1.0 publishers - just like it's doin
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YouTube is a time bomb and a gold mine waiting to happen. The question is which one will be bigger. Grouper hatte 1% Marktanteil, deshalb könnte YouTube $1Mrd wert sein. Aber es ist absolut nicht klar ob sich das GEschäft lohnt.
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Sony Corp.'s entertainment unit said it had agreed to pay $65 million to buy Web video-watching site Grouper.com, marking the growing embrace of the user-generated video craze by big media.
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Interessante Gedanken wie Apple durch den Kauf von YouTube die Video iPod verkäufe anheizen könnte. Außerdem hätte Apple eine Top50 Seite, was für Werbung und ein Onlinepräsenz sowie ein soziales Netzwerk
