Friday del.icio.us Links incl another Rupert Acquisition
Read my post yesterday re Newscorp who are buying our #1 real estate classifieds site : realestate.com.au. They are Tom Hanks in Web 2.0 first media company to get addicted to what Fred Wilson called posting, subscribing and tagging. I'm sure Rupe liks the 'subscribing' extensions. So... Google is worth $90 Billion and Rupe's senior VP's are saying we'll be cheap and spend $5-10B getting our new new economy position strong. Remember, he is a trader, and can still flip for a profit. (remember his new economy VC fund ? hehe) "Seattle-based Scout Media Inc., which operates a network of more than 200 sports Web sites and 47-team specific magazines, is being acquired in a multimillion-dollar deal by News Corp.'s newly formed Internet division.
Terms were not disclosed, though Scout Media Chief Executive Jim Heckman said it was "a substantial win for my investors." : I hope Rupe leaves enough inheritance for his new and old prodigy.
I have to add this 1999 NewsCorp VC New Economy Press release. I have to disclose to I did with business partners sell the eloan.com.au for $10,000 and me and 3 business partners visited America last century. " Separately, News Corporation formed epartners, which will take equity stakes in new media opportunities, including the Internet and e-commerce operations, interactive television and wireless communication. News Corporation has committed a $US300 million equity capital base to epartners. Soon after the fiscal year ended, epartners and one of the world's leading Internet investors, Japan's Softbank, formed a joint-venture company called eVentures. eVentures' mission will be to invest in and develop Internet and e-commerce startup companies in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India. As its first venture, eVentures announced a deal with eloan Inc. of the U.S. to establish online lending operations in the UK, Australia and New Zealand."
Dave McClure, oops, Simplyhired.com, get $3m VC or should I call it expansionary seed to move beyond 3.5m jobs ?
I regret nothing more. The First : The Persian Podcast.
See how the blogosphere for recency and today's internet according to Technorati.
RSS challenging mainstream online marketing. Good article to forward to prospects you are educating and wanting to close so VC's dont screw you and you can sell to Yahoo.
Firefox goes Corporate and sets up a commercial Mozilla Entity.
Terms were not disclosed, though Scout Media Chief Executive Jim Heckman said it was "a substantial win for my investors." : I hope Rupe leaves enough inheritance for his new and old prodigy.
I have to add this 1999 NewsCorp VC New Economy Press release. I have to disclose to I did with business partners sell the eloan.com.au for $10,000 and me and 3 business partners visited America last century. " Separately, News Corporation formed epartners, which will take equity stakes in new media opportunities, including the Internet and e-commerce operations, interactive television and wireless communication. News Corporation has committed a $US300 million equity capital base to epartners. Soon after the fiscal year ended, epartners and one of the world's leading Internet investors, Japan's Softbank, formed a joint-venture company called eVentures. eVentures' mission will be to invest in and develop Internet and e-commerce startup companies in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India. As its first venture, eVentures announced a deal with eloan Inc. of the U.S. to establish online lending operations in the UK, Australia and New Zealand."
Dave McClure, oops, Simplyhired.com, get $3m VC or should I call it expansionary seed to move beyond 3.5m jobs ?
I regret nothing more. The First : The Persian Podcast.
See how the blogosphere for recency and today's internet according to Technorati.
RSS challenging mainstream online marketing. Good article to forward to prospects you are educating and wanting to close so VC's dont screw you and you can sell to Yahoo.
Firefox goes Corporate and sets up a commercial Mozilla Entity.
posted by redbarren at 8:08 PM
2 Comments:
Ben, as it happens today is my birthday, but the $3M goes to our CFO, not my pocket book...
however, i am happy to have a paycheck for another 12-18 months :)
Great blog. Fascinating to see how the net's evolving in Oz so much the same as UK and US - big media buggers snapping up dotcoms, although i heard they are doing better with online classifieds in oz than uk.
For a London / UK perspective on some of the same stuff, check out my blog Future Moocher
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