Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

Dec 21, 2009 No Comments by admin

Jeremy Stoppleman, the CEO of Yelp, has walked away from an all-but-signed deal to be acquired by Google for more than half a billion dollars…

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Google Or Microsoft Should Buy Twitter For $2B, Says Buddy Media’s Lazerow

Sep 02, 2009 No Comments by admin

Michael Lazerow, CEO Buddy Media, predicts that Twitter will continue to scale and then sell within the next year so someone else can figure out the annoying business model part. If he were Google or Microsoft, he would cough up $2 billion and somehow harness the 100-200 million users later…

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