Tag Archives: SEO / SEM

eBay pulls auction for blended iPhone dust and Blendtec blender.

Updated July 16 : Blendtec has blended the iPhone 3G (!) and the remains are on eBay - see the video and auction.
Original iPhone article:
This is quite curious… the brilliant marketing ploy by high-end blender maker Blendtec where they blended an Apple iPhone has taken on a strange and mysterious twist.
Blendtec had put up the […]

Oversee.net acquires SnapNames - domainer market consolidates…

Ahh, bubble Web 2.0 continues. We’re on a roll folks; the acquisition of SnapNames by Oversee.net has been confirmed by Sudhir Bhagwan (CEO of SnapNames)… here’s the full official release just sent out to SnapNames clients and partners:
To SnapNames Customers:
I’m writing to inform you that SnapNames has agreed to be acquired by Oversee.net. Oversee, a […]

Picks for you : Google reacts to eBay *fast* with StumbleUpon-like Picks Google Toolbar addon !

I love a fast market. This is fresh news, just barely on the usual sites - just noticed that GigaOm has mentioned it as well..
Just hours after the news of eBay acquiring Stumble Upon broke, Google has released a trial version of a “Picks for You” add-in to their Google Toolbar that offers a drop […]

eBay acquisition of StumbleUpon for $40-80M…

Breaking news (thanks to Phil at Skype division at eBay for the headsup…) eBay is buying Stumble Upon…. Pricing estimates have not been fully finalised or release, but it appears to be between US$43-65M …
The news is racing over at TechCrunch and the usual serious M&A news sites (including GigaOM)…
Interesting… another Web 2.0 acquisition…. but […]

Google buys DoubleClick for US $3.1B…

Yikes… a bit pricey, but it’s obvious they didn’t want to let it slip away to MSFT…
So what does it mean in a nutshell… well, now G will know more about you (and I) and further back… all the way back to oh, say 1996.
For those who don’t remember the huge DoubleClick cross-site cookie scandal […]