Posts Tagged with ‘revenue’

There’s an amazing story today reported by Kara Swisher about Twitter rejecting a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook three weeks ago. Kara refers to some unnamed sources both in Twitter and in Facebook that claim that the talks actually existed - with no one knowing about them through all this time.
Facebook reportedly initiated the talks offering to buy Twitter some time in the middle of October. As part of the proposed deal Twitter was offered Facebook stock worth $500 [...]

With Facebook just overtaking MySpace in the social networking supremecy race, many believe things are pretty good for the two top dogs.  However, there are those that believe hard times are ahead for the big networks, as smaller and more focused networks steal the attention and affections of advertisers. 
I read a post the other day by Om Malik on the direction of advertising on social networks that really caught my attention.  As Malik sees it, there [...]

News outlets all across the media sphere yesterday published stories on YouTube’s decision to grow its pilot ad revenue sharing program to encompass interested parties in the general public.
The company, owned by Google, was known for several months to operate a limited, roughly 100-user program to formulate a system by which registered site members would be given a percentage – presumably quite small – of advertising income generated via AdSense.
According to YouTube, however, the site “will now accept partner [...]

In an article published this week, BusinessWeek covered a topic that is likely to strike a particular nerve in the minds of a great many Web users today. A topic that has to do with something so small, yet so unbelievably annoying, that it indeed triggers individuals reading material online to level curses at their LCDs and hurl exasperated insults at invisible webmasters and Internet marketing companies the world over.
What is this infuriating item we speak of? It is invention [...]

Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of the globally phenomenal VoIP institution, Skype, recently spoke at a conference in Budapest about the company?s substantial success in a supposed effort to quell unease about seemingly low financial returns recently released by the entity?s proprietor, eBay.
Currently occupied with running the IPTV venture, Joost, Zennstrom highlighted Skype?s achievement of attaining some 220 million users, and predicted that the company would begin to garner ?substantial income? further down the road. Skype brought in $90 million in revenue [...]

Reuters published an interview with a market analyst a few days ago concerning Yahoo!’s present health status as a giant Web portal, and I think some of the points mentioned in the piece are worth highlighting here on Profy. Let’s get right into it.
The analyst, Jeffrey Lindsay, an associate of Sanford C Bernstein, spoke of what many in the past have argued in the past, which is that Yahoo! “would be worth far more to shareholders if it broke up [...]

Skype is big. It?s almost certainly the largest VoIP network in the world, and perhaps even the grandest telecom entity around, too, if one is speaking strictly of the number of individuals using its software and services. Its membership currently stands at roughly 220 million.
But as far as the company?s finances are concerned, its proprietor says its not doing all that well.
What eBay valued at $2.6bn back in 2005 (so very long ago, eh?) is now being [...]

Ever wanted to get a kind of ballpark figure of what the top blogs on the Net take in, financially speaking? We all know they’re popular as heck, and that the more eyes visiting their pages generally means more revenue. But just how much are we talking about?
An estimate gathered for a study using resources of both the University of Texas and the relatively well-known blog ad network Chitika, pegs the number at $500 million total revenue for the top [...]

LiveRail is a promising new web service that is aiming to change the way that people think about video advertising. From what I have seen so far of this service, which is still in beta, invitation-only status, LiveRail may just be able to accomplish its task. So, what is so great about it? It all comes down to the pay-per-click advertising method that LiveRail has been able to successfully implement into its unique video platform.
To summarize what LiveRail is, it is [...]