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Facebook Considering Buying Skype
Facebook Considering Buying Skype
May 5, 2011 9:43 AM CDT

Facebook Considering Buying Skype

Meanwhile, Google holds talks with Skype for joint venture

(Newser) - Skype is suddenly the prettiest girl in school now that it’s pushed back its IPO. Google is in talks for a joint venture with the online calling company, and Facebook is considering buying it outright, sources tell Reuters . Skype is expected to rake in about $1 billion if it...

Dear Feds: Don't You Dare Let AT&T Buy T-Mobile

Say goodbye to competition, hello to gouging

(Newser) - AT&T's bid to buy T-Mobile is brilliant, writes Brett Arends for MarketWatch —for AT&T. For everyone else, it's "disastrous," if not downright anticompetitive. "It will let AT&T shut down a competitor, jack up prices, and save on customer service," he writes in...

AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Reactions: Not Good for Consumers
 AT&T, T-Mobile Merger 
 Bad News for Consumers 
early reactions
Mar 21, 2011 6:29 AM CDT

AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Bad News for Consumers

The consensus: 'Ma Bell is back'

(Newser) - Reactions to the surprise AT&T-T-mobile merger are pouring in, and, not surprisingly, most conclude this isn't a good thing for consumers:
  • The Bell telephone system—"aka AT&T"—was broken up in 1984 to increase competition, and the US telecommunications market was deregulated in 1996, again to
...

News Corp Wins Approval for BSkyB Deal; Sky News to Be Spun Off
 Brits OK Murdoch Mega TV Deal 
Mar 3, 2011 3:03 AM CST

Brits OK Murdoch Mega TV Deal

News Corp to buy BSkyB, spin off Sky News

(Newser) - The British government has given the green light to Rupert Murdoch's biggest deal in the nation for decades. Murdoch's News Corp will be allowed to increase its stake in pay-TV giant British Sky Broadcasting from 39.1% to 100%, on the condition that it spin off its Sky News subsidiary...

NYSE to Merge With Deutsche Böerse

Name of the new entity in question

(Newser) - Deutsche Böerse AG, the company that owns the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, has agreed to merge with NYSE Euronext, the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange, forming a new as-yet unnamed entity, the companies announced today. Deutsche Böerse will own 60% of the new company, which will...

Google, Facebook Eye Twitter, Price Tag: $10B

Social network valuations head to the sky

(Newser) - Facebook and Google are among the companies circling Twitter and considering a colossal buyout deal, insiders tell the Wall Street Journal . The talks haven't gone anywhere yet, but the price under discussion is somewhere between $8 billion and $10 billion—roughly 100 times the amount of revenue Twitter, which lost...

HuffPo Writers: How About Some Pay?

$315M deal leaves unpaid contributors out in cold

(Newser) - The Huffington Post's sale to AOL for $315 million —and the estimated $18 million to $100 million Arianna Huffington made on the deal—has left the news site's unpaid contributors wondering where their piece of the pie is, the Daily notes. "My share of the Huffington Post sale,...

AOL-HuffPo Deal Seems Pretty Win-Win


 AOL-HuffPo  
 Deal Seems 
 Pretty Win-Win 
Reactions
Feb 7, 2011 1:39 PM CST

AOL-HuffPo Deal Seems Pretty Win-Win

HuffPo gets cash, AOL gets a vision, advertisers get eyeballs

(Newser) - AOL's purchase of the Huffington Post is drawing plenty of muted cheers—and a few harsh critiques. Most seem to agree that both sides come out ahead.
  • “The content rollup has begun,” writes Michael Wolff at MediaWeek , and new media is becoming old media—"if it’s
...

Fiat Splits in Two, May Up Stake in Chrysler to 51%

But says it has no plans to merge operations

(Newser) - Fiat traded as two separate companies today, after spinning off its trucks and tractors units, which will henceforth be known as Fiat Industrial, from its passenger car business on Jan. 1. The move has been widely praised, and could lead to a tighter integration between Fiat and Chrysler, according to...

Tiny Borders Looks to Buy Mighty Barnes & Noble

Even though it's a fraction of the size

(Newser) - A major Borders shareholder is offering to finance a $960 million bid to buy much larger rival Barnes & Noble. That would amount to $16 a share, unlikely to be the highest bid for the bookseller, which put itself on the block in August. Sources tell the Wall Street Journal...

Groupon to Google: Keep Your $6B

Startup turns down rumored purchase offer

(Newser) - Valued at a mere $1.3 billion in April, Groupon last night walked away from Google and its rumored purchase offer of between $5 billion and $6 billion, opting instead to remain independent, sources tell the Chicago Tribune. Neither Groupon nor Google would comment, but insiders say that the 2-year-old...

Latest Rumor: Google to Buy Groupon for $5.3B

It would be search giant's biggest purchase yet

(Newser) - Google is thiiiis close to a deal to buy Groupon for a whopping $5 billion to $6 billion, according to multiple reports. Google’s current offer is $5.3 billion, sources tell All Things Digital , but according to the New York Times the pricetag could stretch as high as $6...

AOL-Yahoo Merger Rumored to Be In the Works
 AOL Weighing Yahoo Takeover 
Oct 14, 2010 3:42 AM CDT

AOL Weighing Yahoo Takeover

Private equity in talks to engineer 'reverse merger'

(Newser) - Takeover rumors are swirling around Yahoo again. AOL is in talks with several private equity firms over a possible "reverse merger" between the two Internet giants that would see AOL chief Tim Armstrong heading up the combined company, insiders tell the Wall Street Journal . One scenario being considered is...

Southwest Airlines to Buy AirTran for $1.4B

Will help it compete with Delta in Atlanta

(Newser) - Southwest Airlines will buy AirTran for about $1.42 billion, the companies announced today. The move will put Southwest in head-to-head competition with Delta in Delta's home base of Atlanta. The buyout, funded mostly with debt, will also give Southwest a bigger slice of the market in cities like Boston...

Intel's Purchase of McAfee Baffles Analysts

Researchers line up to pan acquisition

(Newser) - Intel agreed to buy McAfee for $7.68 billion today, leaving analysts slack-jawed with disbelief. “I would love to be wrong, but I think we may all look back five years from now and say, 'Wow. That was a big mistake,’” one Forrester analyst tells PC World...

AOL Unloading Bebo for Massive Loss

$850M buy being sold off at rock-bottom price

(Newser) - AOL's ride on the social networking bandwagon appears to have been a blunder costing close to a billion dollars. The company is in the final stages of making a deal to sell floundering Bebo, which it bought for $850 million in 2008, for a price thought to be in the...

Murdoch Trying to Buy Sky TV
 Murdoch Trying to Buy Sky TV  
Jun 15, 2010 8:35 AM CDT

Murdoch Trying to Buy Sky TV

British pay channel turns down bid for 61% share

(Newser) - News Corp is in hot pursuit of British Sky Broadcasting, offering it $11.5 billion for the 61% of the British pay channel it doesn’t already own, according to the company’s own Wall Street Journal . That 700 pence-per-share offer was an improvement on the 675 pence-per-share reported last...

Zuckerberg: I Don't Care About Money

Revenue 'factors in, like, not at all'

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg went on a revealing rant the other day when asked how Facebook's new privacy settings would affect its business model. “We didn't talk about revenue at all,” he replied, and implied that he and his cohorts never thought about it. He said they genuinely believe Facebook...

The Age Of Facebook: Excerpts From The New Book By David Kirkpatrick
 Facebook: 
 The Frat House Years 
Book Excerpt
May 6, 2010 12:27 PM CDT

Facebook: The Frat House Years

Young company run like a rowdy dorm

(Newser) - The house was overrun with partying college students. Broken beer bottles were frequently swept carelessly into the pool—which drunken guests would leap into by jumping off a zip-line slung from the chimney. That's what Facebook's first “headquarters” was like, according to excerpts, published by Fortune , from David Kirkpatrick's...

For Sale: Ailing Newsweek
 For Sale: Ailing Newsweek 
May 5, 2010 10:44 AM CDT

For Sale: Ailing Newsweek

Washington Post Co. cites mounting losses

(Newser) - The Washington Post Company is looking for someone to take Newsweek off its hands, the company announced in a press release today (to the apparent surprise of Newsweek's Tumblr ). “The losses at Newsweek in 2007-2009 are a matter of record,” said Donald Graham, chairman of the Post...

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