Acquiring previously failed startup IP is hot hot cold

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Today, Techcrunch announces that Xobni acquired failed Web 1.0 startup FireDrop which raised $90m in 2000. Yesterday, Mike Arrington started an interesting discussion on what to do with the failed startup's IP laying around. Even if most IP of failed startups is officially owned by bankers or in the best ...

Microsoft walks, how low will Yahoo close tomorrow?

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

That's it, Microsoft announced that they have walked away from the negotiation table. Is it now a good time for Google to move in; will Microsoft ultimately try other ways to get Yahoo? There are still a lot of open questions and we should expect some of them to be ...

Microsoft signs LoI to acquire Xobni [follow-up]

Monday, April 21st, 2008

As a follow-up to my post on friday, there is now independent confirmation that Microsoft has signed at least its side of a Letter of Intent to acquire Xobni. The price on that letter is unknown for the moment and would likely be above an initial offer of less than ...