Oct. 17, 2007
Yahoo worth more than an organ donor
Business 2.0
Jon Fortt blogs about the digital giants of our industry.
”Yahoo (YHOO) stock moved higher this morning (nearly 3 per cent) after an analyst at respected firm Sanford C. Bernstein said the Internet giant would be worth more if it were broken up and sold in pieces.”
Social networking is moving on
The browser
Even as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg reportedly considers a Microsoft (MSFT) investment, upstart entrepreneurs at the MIT Emerging Technology conference ponder what comes next.
“Although neither Digg.com, StumbleUpon or NetVibe purports to be a social network, replacing a Facebook, each is a leader in new forms of social Internet use. NetVibes lets users pepper a personal dashboard with widgets. StumbledUpon is social search that lets users unearth sites that might be interesting to them. And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site. All three were named among MIT Technology Review’s 35 innovators under the age of 35.”
Intel advertizing
Valleywag
Chipmaker does an about switch.
”Intel, which subsidizes PC makers’ advertising budgets in return for promotion of its “Intel Inside” campaign, is now requiring that they spend 35 percent of the funds it provides on online advertising. The chipmaker itself soon plans to spend half of its advertising budget on the Web, where it believes consumers make most of their PC-buying decisions. “