Acquisitions: Google/YouTube, what do you think of the deal?

From: Cliff Kurtzman <moderator_at_o-a.com>
Date: Tue 10 Oct 2006 11:25:20 -0500

What do you guys think about this critical analysis of the Google/YouTube deal?

Agree or Disagree?

Web2 Corp Finds YouTube Acquisition by Google Similar to
Broadcast.com Acquisition by Yahoo and AOL Deal with Time Warner;
Illusory Benefits in All Cases
http://www.prwebdirect.com/releases/2006/10/prweb448778.htm

Deals:

October

Google acquires YouTube for $1.65B
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623636

InfoUSA Acquires Digital Connexxions
http://www.crm2day.com/news/crm/120035.php

Lycos Europe acquires Mentasys for $38M
http://ots.euroadhoc.com/irmeldung.php?schluessel=OTA_20061006_OTA0002&ag=OTA

Neighborhood America acquires MOVO Mobile
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=18947

Penton acquires NPIcenter
http://www.expoweb.com/headline_search.asp?id=6291

News Corp acquires Milkround for $37M
http://www.recruitermagazine.co.uk/Articles/331806/Milkroundcom+acquired+.html

National Magazine Company acquires handbag.com for $41M
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1885762,00.html

September

Yahoo acquires JumpCut
http://venturebeat.com/2006/09/27/yahoo-acquires-video-editing-co-jumpcut/

Amadeus acquires TravelTainment
http://www.traveldailynews.com/new.asp?newid=32738&subcategory_id=095

Action Pursuit Group acquires Action Media
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060926/nytu158.html?.v=67

Related article:

JEGI: M&A Activity to Date Surpasses First Nine Months of 2005
http://www.foliomag.com/viewmedia.asp?prmMID=6608&prmID=1

See our full 2005-2006 M&A deal flow:
      http://www.o-a.com/acquisitions.html


--Cliff

Clifford R. Kurtzman
CEO | Moderator
ADASTRO Incorporated | The Online Advertising Discussion List
http://www.adastro.com | http://www.o-a.com
(281) 480-6300





Received on Tue Oct 10 2006 - 11:25:20 CDT