Posts Tagged with ‘rumors’

Do you ever think it is strange how eagerly we, bloggers, distribute rumors that have nothing to do with reality when we want to believe this or that particular prediction to be true? Whenever we get some new rumor initiated - be it a blogger seeking to get some extra popularity and hoping that the rumor could really eventually come true or a source that is not really familiar with the situation but tries to pretend - we start discussing [...]

It's Saturday night, and like any tech geek, I'm online, reading news and following the Twitter stream when I see a Tweet that CNET has bought Revision3. Now, this rumor was first floated back in December 2007 when CNET added Revision3 content, and has popped up since then occasionally in blogs.
The source, however, was Robert Scoble, so Twitter lit up like a Christmas tree with the news that Revision3 was bought for $57 million. Tweets from early this morning (1 [...]

Yesterday, we covered Newscorp’s alleged interest in selling MySpace off to Yahoo!. Today, we’ll take a big step back and ruminate another potential transaction: The sale of Yahoo! itself.
Now, this is all hearsay at the moment, but we can’t simply discount the murmurs on the subject as noise. There’s got to be something to the speculation, yes?
Who knows. What we do know is Yahoo! isn’t in the healthiest it could be, and the fact that the internal structure [...]

Truemor: What Google is *really* planning for 2008. Okay, the rumor starts here(my theory, doh)… Short version: elgoog (Google) is planning to launch the world's largest social networking site 'overnight' and at the flick of a switch and will become the Mitsubishi of the internet.
Huh? Exactly. Let me explain… while Yahoo! and others continue to explore acquisitions in the social networking space (e.g. Bebo et al), and the “buy-me-I'm-Facebook” dance continues, stop and ask yourself a question: having already built or acquired [...]