Google's track record with companies hasn't been stellar: see GrandCentral and Delicious. A list of all Google Acquisitions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions
(Yahoo got Delicious)
Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
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Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#12Google's track record with companies hasn't been stellar: see GrandCentral and Delicious. A list of all Google Acquisitions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions
that's true google does have a nice track record with acquisitions.
wait, I thought, Delicious was purchased by Yahoo...
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#13Google's track record with companies hasn't been stellar: see GrandCentral and Delicious. A list of all Google Acquisitions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions
Delicious is owned by Yahoo, not Google.
But c.f. JotSpot nonetheless...
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#14Google's track record with companies hasn't been stellar: see GrandCentral and Delicious. A list of all Google Acquisitions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions
Obviously an error by the poster. On that note, Google has acquired a lot of properties that never really went anywhere afterward.
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#15Google's track record with companies hasn't been stellar: see GrandCentral and Delicious. A list of all Google Acquisitions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions
Delicious acquired Yahoo.
sorry couldn't help myself
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#16I truly feel it's about time they get acquired. They've been searching for a good fit, and I think everyone knew the obvious pair would be with Google. Microsoft acquiring digg on the other hand? That would be a death notice to digg's userbase.
Really? It's not clear to me that they are an obvious pair.
Google really excels at building technical solutions to challenging problems, while Digg has done a great job building a community-based solution to a challenging problem.
It seems to me every time Google attempts community, they more or less fail (Dodgeball, Jaiku, the new Lively hasn't done much, etc).
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#17If this is true (please ;-)) I'd like to point out that valleywag has been pushing this story for about a month now.
Congratulations ;)
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#18its a good acquisition if Google wanted its own highly visible brand for a social network(like youtube), but I can't see this doing that much to their bottom line, since the same person who knows that a site like digg exists is also probably aware of Google, has a Gmail account, and uses other Google products.
Its probably just a way for google to show investors: "See we are buying stuff"
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#19If this is true (please ;-)) I'd like to point out that valleywag has been pushing this story for about a month now.
So, any truth to it ;). You can tell us... no one will know.
PS: Speaking of Valleywag, they're now saying that Github will be purchased by Yahoo as soon as the new board is elected.
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#20I truly feel it's about time they get acquired. They've been searching for a good fit, and I think everyone knew the obvious pair would be with Google. Microsoft acquiring digg on the other hand? That would be a death notice to digg's userbase.
Really? It's not clear to me that they are an obvious pair. Google really excels at building technical solutions to challenging problems, while Digg has done a great job building a community-based solution to a challenging problem. It seems to me every time Google attempts community, they more or less fail (Dodgeball, Jaiku, the new Lively hasn't done much, etc).
Aren't digg ads run by Microsoft? If so any idea how long that contract is?