6 posts and columns on Déjà Vu

Déjà Vu: Activist Yahoo Shareholder Takes Aim at Board

in News on September 8, 2011 at 9:36 am PT

It’s not Carl Icahn this time, but the investor attacks are all too familiar for Yahoo.
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The Stylings of Hulu Head Jason "Jerry Maguire" Kilar Over the Years

in News on February 4, 2011 at 10:43 am PT

After reading Hulu CEO Jason Kilar’s most excellent recent blog post taking aim at how television and cable companies (i.e., his bosses) deliver and the follow-up piece by MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka (“Is Jason Kilar Trying to Get Fired?”), BoomTown had an intense feeling of déjà vu. That’s because–even though what he wrote put the knickers of the Hollywood/New York bigwigs who own the premium video service into a series of ever more painful knots–it is a variation of things Kilar has been saying for quite awhile now.

Déjà Vu: Facebook's Questionable Stock Hijinks Feels Like Winklevii 2.0

in News on January 4, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s clear intent to keep the lid on Facebook tight–with no disclosure about the details of the financial performance and other pertinent information a public offering would require be disclosed–is clearly becoming a nettlesome issue for the company. But while that effort at preserving secrecy by staying private has resulted in little more than cute media guessing games about a possible IPO until now, the social networking giant’s most recent machinations are too clever by a half.

Department of Déjà Vu: Little AOL's Quixotic Quest To Land Giant Yahoo

in News on October 14, 2010 at 12:54 pm PT

The last time AOL gobbled up a big company–that would be its audacious grab of Time Warner in the 2000 merger of the century–it ended in tears. Now, it will take all of CEO Tim Armstrong’s considerable sales skills and impressive cheekbones to pull off what the struggling Internet icon is attempting. That would be trying to convince someone with piles of money–a private equity firm or a cash-rich tech giant such as Microsoft–to help it snatch control of Yahoo and fold AOL into it.
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Cisco: The Comic Book?

in News on March 3, 2009 at 12:09 am PT

On the eve of the debut of the much anticipated “Watchmen” movie from Warner Bros., Cisco seems to be getting into the superhero game, with an unusual marketing effort that uses sophisticated comic book characters to highlight its line of security products. More like Nerdmen! Except with more muscles and cooler outfits! On a new Web site that is now up, for a series called “The Realm,” Cisco seems to have gotten some cool original work from well-known Marvel Comics illustrator Mike Mayhew.
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