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10 Tech Deals that defined the decade — Part 1

December 8, 2009

What are the 10 tech­nol­ogy deals that define the decade between 2000 and 2010. Going in reverse count­ing order, here are num­ber 10 through 6.

Cisco acquires Linksys

March 20, 2003

Today’s announce­ment about Cisco’s acqui­si­tion of Linksys is one that leaves me scratch­ing my head a lit­tle. What is the logic behind this? Could this rep­re­sent a change in Cisco’s strat­egy? Or is it a real­iza­tion in the part of the net­work­ing equip­ment ven­dor that its future may not be enhanced by mov­ing into the now heav­ily depressed […]

Google goes blogging

February 17, 2003

The news that Google is acquir­ing Pyra Labs has got­ten a lot of peo­ple won­der­ing about the move. I gen­er­ally dis­agree with Anil’s con­tention that it’s not a great fit. I believe there are many areas in which Google and Pyra are com­ple­men­tary. My per­sonal sus­pi­cion is that Google is look­ing at sites like Day­pop, Popdex, and Blogdex and […]

Ebay to Acquire PayPal

July 8, 2002

Today, Ebay announced that it will acquire Pay­pal for $1.5 bil­lion in stock. The acqui­si­tion makes sense as it merges two suc­cess­ful Inter­net busi­nesses and turns the online auc­tion­eer into an end to end shop for online trans­ac­tion. Siz­ing up the busi­nesses Ebay is pri­mar­ily in the auc­tion busi­ness. Every­day, mil­lions of peo­ple buy and […]

Internet.com Acquires Earthweb’s content

December 27, 2000

Today, Earth­web and Internet.com announced that Internet.com was acquir­ing all of Earthweb’s con­tent prop­er­ties. For me, it’s an inter­est­ing announce­ment because I was involved in the build­ing of both prop­er­ties. When I left Internet.com in 1996 and went to Earth­web, I was in charge of build­ing Earthweb’s prop­er­ties into some­thing com­pet­i­tive with Internet.com. At the time, there were […]