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Swedish-based Primelabs, operator of the popular Twingly ping and blog search service which connect blogs with media sites like Dagens Nyheter, SvD and IDG, has received a 10 million Swedish krona investment from Servisen.

“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” - John Maynard Keynes

Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick seems to have been the trigger of a lot of acquisition activity (Microsoft-Acquantive, WPP for 247/ Real Media, Yahoo for Right Media, AOL for AdTech). It seems like the prices are getting really rich (and I’m an apologist for eBay-Skype and Google-YouTube). Of course there is a fair amount of […]

It’s hard to identify talent, but great people don’t look for jobs, great people are sold on jobs. And if they’re sold they’re going to say no at first. You have to win them over. - Joe Kraus, co-founder of Excite (in Founders at Work)

BitTorrent, Inc to acquire Swedish uTorrent AB. “Together, we are pleased to announce that BitTorrent, Inc. and µTorrent AB have decided to join forces. BitTorrent has acquired µTorrent as it recognized the merits of µTorrent’s exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community. Bringing together µTorrent’s efficient implementation and compelling UI with BitTorrent’s expertise in networking […]

Don Dodge thinks Yahoo’s 2003 acquisition of Overture was 8th worst billion dollar acquisition of an Internet company. I would probably put it at the top of my best billion dollar Internet acquisitions list (if I did keep such a list). Yahoo got Overture at a low valuation (about 2x revenue) and gave Yahoo major […]

I’m going to be at the SIME conference tomorrow and Thursday.