If this is true (please ;-)) I'd like to point out that valleywag has been pushing this story for about a month now.
Congrats!
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"
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Nobody tells me anything. Really.
Although... I had a very vivid dream a week ago, where I was at the "Google acquires Digg" party. I spent the whole party apologizing for stuff I've said on the web since leaving ;-)
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#33Curiously enough, the BusinessWeek cover story on Digg almost two years ago claimed "people in the know say Digg is easily worth $200 million".
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_33/b3997001....
Has Digg's value been stagnant for 2 years? Did BW overestimate? I suspect a little of both...
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#34Google'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
wait .. what is so wrong with GrandCentral ? I use that service everyday and I have been very happy with it.
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#35its 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"
But does the same person that knows that Google exists know that Digg exists?
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#36That seems like a ridiculously high number to me.
Isn't Digg using Microsoft for their ads? I wouldn't like to be a chair in Redmond now.
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#37I am wondering, how will Google handle the fanboys. Maybe bad comments in Digg will get fanboys blog downgraded in Google search. Google is capable of doing that.
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#38If this is true (please ;-)) I'd like to point out that valleywag has been pushing this story for about a month now.
http://valleywag.com/5024012/digg-ceo-and-google-cofounder-s...
This is like Arrington coming here to upvote Techcrunch. I thought you were better than this, Alaska...
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#39Google'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...
JotSpot got Google Joe Kraus. They're still pretty happy about that one, I think...
Re: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"
#40Google'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
Oops, I'm totally embarrassed.