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Friday, September 22. 2006
- What was long expected seems to have happened now. Both Facebook and YouTube might be up for sale. Facebook turned down an offer for 750 million USD in March and seems now worth the 2bln USD that they were asking for at the time. What a difference 6 months can make! Once more, Good Morning Silicon Valley sums it up nicely: "To inflate YouTube, pull cord, stand clear"
- Back in Europe, German's Deutsche Telekom have been found in the headlines quite a lot recently. Either it is about their US spectrum auction activties, pressure from its private equity shareholder Blackstone and others to replace its CEO, or now, as the CEO himself has announced (sounds desperate and not only to me) that he plans to completely restructure the company. In between one can read from other D-Telecom execs that they have everything under full control. To me this sounds more like a "Houston we have a problem" call.
- The news in the tech community yesterday was that early Skype backer Magnus Lund is at it again with its online brokerage startup Zeeco. What's so special about an online stock broker site? They want to offer online trading for FREE! So finance it with ads. What a courageous step. At least they already have the headlines. But I expect it will be much tougher to make this one succeed since they will have to fight many established, deep pocketed competitors. Techcrunch mentions other reasons too.
- At Siemens in Germany a decision for 30% higher board member salaries has received severe backlash but also some comments from people who think this is justified since Siemens is doing fine currently and also needs to match salaries with other companies. Timing is never a good one for increasing salaries of the top management of course, but the idea that this will finally bring in real top management, able to solve big problems instead of simply getting rid of them, is pretty doubtful.
- How to use Digg and Netscape to generate more traffic on your blog site has been shown by this fellow - and he tested it successfully with Guy Kawasaki's blog site.
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