Peter Kafka in Media on May 17 at 3:03 pm PT
Back when he was 21, had 75,000 users and was raising $750,000.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 17 at 7:10 am PT
Want an argument for dropping $1 billion on a company with almost no revenue? Here you go.
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Peter Kafka in Media on May 7 at 10:22 am PT
Yahoo and Microsoft have extended a deal that guarantees revenue for each search a Yahoo user makes using Microsoft’s Bing engine. The deal was initially struck in late 2009, was renewed again in 2011 and expired on March 31 of this year. The new deal — CEO Marissa Mayer’s first with Microsoft — kicked in April 1 and goes for another 12 months;
Yahoo disclosed the pact in an SEC filing today.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 2 at 3:00 am PT
All those “channels” and TV stars you heard about a year ago? M.I.A. at YouTube’s big sales event last night, replaced by Felicia Day and Macklemore.
Peter Kafka in Mobile on April 11 at 8:44 am PT
“Hey, there’s not a lot of companies that get to play in this space. And guess what? We get to be one of those companies.”
Peter Kafka in Media on April 9 at 8:24 am PT
$5.2 million in a month, at $200,000 a day.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 26 at 10:14 am PT
Facebook concludes that everyone else may have a point when it comes to selling “retargeted” Web ads.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 18 at 9:01 pm PT
A measly 3 percent of mom-and-pop ad spending goes on the Web, says Boston Consulting Group.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 8 at 12:22 pm PT
Grab Media, a video distribution company. Tim Armstrong bought one in 2010, and that worked well for him and AOL.
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