links for 2007-05-10
- Breaking: Odeo Acquired By SonicMountain: “New York based SonicMountain, a new startup, has acquired Evan Williams’ Odeo. The announcement will come sometime tomorrow. The price is not being disclosed but is in excess of $1 million, and the deal was all cash.” (tags: Podcasting, services, Acquisitions, Business)
- Where have all the viewers gone? – CNN.com: “In TV’s worst spring in recent memory, a startling number of Americans drifted away from television the past two months” (tags: tv, video, trends, media, statistics, Entertainment, Advertising)
- Sun Adopts OpenID, supports URL-based digital identity: “Sun has announced that it is adopting OpenID, which provides user-centric, decentralized, URL-based digital identity.” (tags: OpenID, identity, Sun, webservices, architecture)
- Microsoft buys stake in CareerBuilder | CNET News.com: Microsoft has bought a minority equity stake in job search site CareerBuilder.com (tags: Microsoft, Acquisitions, Business, Employment)
- eBay May Buy StumbleUpon For $75 Million: EBay Seeks to Add StumbleUpon to Portfolio from the Wall Street Journal brings back the rumors that eBay will be purchasing StumbleUpon. (tags: ebay, Acquisitions, Business, socialsoftware)
- Yahoo To Close Yahoo Auctions: “Yahoo has announced that they will be closing Yahoo Auctions in the United States and Canada as of June 16, 2007.” (tags: Yahoo, auctions, online)
- paidContent.org: The Economics of Content – Online Video Service Joost Gets Whopping $45 Million Funding; Investors Include CBS & Viacom: “Joost has raised a big round of funding: $45 million. The round included Sequioa Capital, Index Ventures, Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong tycoon, and CBS…all have taken “small minority” stakes in the start-up’ (tags: video, VC, tv, media, P2P)
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