AOL acquires Thing Labs (Brizzly)
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AOL acquires Thing Labs (Brizzly)
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Re: AOL acquires Thing Labs (Brizzly)
#2If one of AOL's goals was to announce multiple acquisitions in a single day in order to get exponentially more coverage than if they had announced them all days apart, then I'd say mission accomplished.
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#3Wow! I was wondering what would happen to Brizzly after Twitter's new web interface. Brizzly has nice interface for in-stream media and so. I thought their key point was user interface. And I was thinking what would a startup (client) do, whose core selling point is better UI, in case when a platform itself comes up with a better UI.
I wonder how these acquisitions happen? Probably Brizzly knew they will die soon? So they wanted to sell it off? And they have some connections with AOL somehow, and get the word out that they are on sale? Any ideas?
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#4With their record of taking cool companies down the drain, I worry about this AOL shopping spree.
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#5AOL doesn't want to die alone.
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#6I don't have much in the way of product, but AOL: you are more than welcome to acquire Robot Mode.
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#7In an interesting choice of words, the Thing Labs blog (blog.thinglabs.com) refers to this as a "merger".
"We are pleased to announce that as of today, Thing Labs is merging with AOL. This deal has been in the works for a little while, and we’ve been dying to tell you all, but today it’s official!"
Re: AOL acquires Thing Labs (Brizzly)
#8AOL doesn't want to die alone.
"Everyone dies alone."
Re: AOL acquires Thing Labs (Brizzly)
#9In an interesting choice of words, the Thing Labs blog (blog.thinglabs.com) refers to this as a "merger". "We are pleased to announce that as of today, Thing Labs is merging with AOL. This deal has been in the works for a little while, and we’ve been dying to tell you all, but today it’s official!"
I heard that acquisitions often involve a merger with a shell company because of a tax or liability advantage. I searched for info on this, but couldn't find anything. Can somebody please comment on how this works?
Re: AOL acquires Thing Labs (Brizzly)
#10In an interesting choice of words, the Thing Labs blog (blog.thinglabs.com) refers to this as a "merger". "We are pleased to announce that as of today, Thing Labs is merging with AOL. This deal has been in the works for a little while, and we’ve been dying to tell you all, but today it’s official!"
Arrington also called Techcrunch's sale a merger at TC Disrupt this morning.