Articles in the Acquisitions Category
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If you can figure out the similarity between ‘Startups.com‘,’Fly.com‘,’Vibrators.com‘ & ‘Toys.com‘,then you won’t find it tough in getting the title of this post (The Hottest asset of a deadpooled company : Domain name*).Here ‘*’ means ‘Conditions apply’.Condition ?? You got to own one of the most common(& desirable) domain names possible on web.
To be factual,its almost impossible for anybody to find such a worthy domain name now(if there would still be any such unclaimed domain name,domain registrars would …
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I strongly discourage lofty domain resales,in the sense that brands are built with quality of service and not a rememberable name(that helps to an extent but not at all necessary),the latest news from domain resale industry is a lot astounding.
In the days of recession,when companies are struggling to procure funds for survival,here is a decade old publicly traded travel site called Travelzoo,which has just announced acquisition of Fly.com for whopping $1.8Mn.
According to Travelzoo
“Fly.com will launch a new travel search engine within the next few weeks that …
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‘Domain resale’ is something that i love to hate.You can see some of my previous posts covering domain resales here and here.But this time,i have to say that ‘this’ domain purchase at the cost of a million dollars is a smart deal.
PriveCo,a private company has just acquired vibrators.com for a million dollars.(With $200K in down and $800k at 8% over a short period).They have been selling private stuff for years now and have been using the same domain(vibrators) since 2002(on lease).
As the entire money …
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We’ve always considered Killerstartups,a startup featuring website,an intelligent player in its arena not only because it monetizes its readership effectively through advertisements but also because it proposes a plan that’s lucrative from a startup’s perspective and brings Killerstartups $500/month from every premium customer(or startup).
And they’ve shown quite a catalytic growth in the past two years.They’re currently bringing more than a million uniques every month and have been effectively monetizing their services as well.
But today itself,they’ve commited the unexpected(and equally immaturish)….
They have acquired Startups.com …
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MyHeritage, one of the world’s most popular family websites has today announced the acquisition of family social network Kindo for an undisclosed acquisition amount.
MyHeritage is based in Bnei Atarot,Israel and has raised more than $9 million of funding from Accel and Index Ventures.
MyHeritage has more than 25 million members worldwide and 260 million profiles under its belt.It is available in 25 languages at this moment and is known for its powerful technology that helps families research their history and stay connected, including Smart Matching and automatic photo …
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There has already been a lot of talks of cuil‘s claims and then it’s performance from Day 1 of their launch but one thing is crystal clear…
It certainly takes a lot of guts to even think of competing in a market(we mean,online search industry),which is already been over-saturated and even bigger guts to challenge the ‘Titan of Internet Industry‘ on its homeground.
‘Cuil’ was in the limelight much before it’s month old release(Launch date : 27th July) for solely one …
