Topic Archives: Deals

Google to buy Digg?

StrategyEye this morning published rumours from ‘multiple sources’ that Google was in the final stages of aquiring Digg.com the market leading social news service. The rumoured price tag is $200m which seems quite fair in this near hysterical market [remember the $1bn to $15bn valuation of Facetbook?].
The details are currently sketchy and we will post [...]

Yahoo! rumoured close to a deal with Google

Rumours reach Cheeze HQ that Yahoo! and Google are close to closing a ‘big deal’ which would see integration of Google paid ads onto the Yahoo networks. This rumour comes after positive feedback from Yahoo and Google on the two week limited test which saw Google paid ads appear against a small number of Yahoo! [...]

AOL aquires Bebo

AOL formally announced the aquistion of Bebo today. The aqusition of Bebo, for a cool 850 million US dollars represents an interesting shift for AOL. The deal for UK based Bebo is an interesting one. AOL has been associated with an ageing audience whilst Bebo has been a very young audience. The two companies had [...]