Bill Nguyen

What’s Really Going on With Color: A Small Apple Talent Acquisition

Liz Gannes and John Paczkowski in Social on October 18, 2012 at 9:19 am PT

Color’s engineering team — about 20 people, almost the entire company — is being “acqhired” by Apple at what’s being called a “nominal” price of something like $2 million to $5 million.

Color’s Plan C (Or Is It B.5?): Becoming Verizon’s Live Mobile Video Partner

Liz Gannes in Social on May 7, 2012 at 8:15 am PT

Color, the famously overfunded social app shop, is still looking for its first big hit.

Confirmed: Co-founder Peter Pham Leaves Color

Liz Gannes in Social on June 14, 2011 at 7:57 pm PT

Peter Pham, co-founder and president at the social networking start-up Color, has left the company, both he and Color CEO Bill Nguyen confirmed.

How Quickly Our Social Web Conventions Stick

Liz Gannes in Social on April 14, 2011 at 11:11 am PT

As of today, I have given 106 different apps authorized access to my Facebook account, offering them personal information like my profile picture, friend lists, my favorite content and even my friends’ favorite content.

Video: With $41M in Hand, Color Offers New Proximity-Based Social Network

Liz Gannes in Social on March 23, 2011 at 5:00 pm PT

Bill Nguyen, the serial entrepreneur who most recently sold Lala to Apple for around $80 million, is today launching Color, a proximity-based social network with no privacy settings.

Lala’s Fire Sale That Wasn’t: What Apple Really Paid

Peter Kafka in Media on December 7, 2009 at 10:49 am PT

On Friday, I reported that Apple was buying Lala at a fire-sale price, which meant that investors in the music service wouldn’t get their money. I was wrong. Apple ended up paying around $80 million for the company, according to multiple sources. That’s less than half what investors valued the company at in 2008, but it’s more than the $35 million the company raised throughout its life. Which means that some investors could get their money back and more.