Morgan Stanley Predicts YouTube to Be a $20B Business
Google keeps pretty mum on the subject of YouTube revenue, leaving it to analysts to guess what kind of take the service racks in. Analysts from Morgan Stanley recently took a crack at it. They predict the company will reach $20 billion in gross revenue by 2020 to generate $5 billion in operating income, CNBC reported. The research analysts based … Read More
Ductor to Revolutionize Fertilizer, Crude Oil with Bio-based Approach to Ammonia
By MATT GALLAGHER, Red Herring Harnessing the power of ammonia, Ductor hopes to revolutionize both garden farming and gas tanks by the end of this summer. The company is developing what it claims to be the world’s first industrial scale ammonia and phosphate production technology based on a 100 percent biological process that actually … Read More
BMC Software Privatizes in $6.9B Deal
BMC Software agreed to privatize itself in $6.9 billion sale to a group of investors led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital. The deal pays $46.25 per share to the buyer’s group which includes the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and Insight Venture Partners. That’s a 14 percent premium on BMC’s share price on May 11, 2012, … Read More
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Yahoo Acquires Tumblr for $1.1B, Promises “Not to Screw It Up”
Yahoo has acquired Tumblr, the popular blogging service, for $1.1 billion cash in one of the largest deals for a social networking company in years, even surpassing Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition for Instagram. Yahoo gets the six year old social blogging platform’s access to a younger audience, as Tumblr is … Read More
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Intel to Acquire Finnish Firewall Stonesoft for $389M Cash
Intel Corp. has made an offer to acquire Stonesoft, a public Finnish firewall security company, for $389 million in cash to bolster the offerings of its McAfee security software package. Public stock of the security company soared following the … Read More.
Alibaba Buys 18% of Weibo, China’s Twitter, for $586M
In a sign that social and ecommerce are becoming peas in the same pod, Alibaba, the Chinese Amazon giant, has purchased Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, for $586 million. The deal values Weibo at over $3 billion, according to Reuters. A number … Read More.
Eventbrite Raises $60M, Puts Off IPO
Those waiting for Eventbrite to go public will have to be patient. The online ticketing company recently raised $60 million to buy it more time. The round was led by Tiger Global Management, and included a new investment partner, T. Rowe Price. It … Read More.
IBM Acquires UrbanCode for Fast App Development
In a sign that devops, the practice of fast software deployment, is the next big thing, IBM has acquired UrbanCode, a Cleveland software startup that automates the production and delivery of apps. The company’s systems are aligned with IBM’s own … Read More.