Comments on: Yahoo’s Rumored $1 billion Talks With Bebo

By: TechCrunch en français » Rumeur: Bebo sur le point d'etre racheté par Google ou MySpace pour 1 milliard ou plus?

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:13:43 +0000

[...] existe une longue histoire de rumeurs autour de Bebo qui se sont toutes avérées fausses jusque là. En Mai dernier 2007. Yahoo était [...]

By: Rumor: Is Google About to Buy Bebo For $1 Billion To $1.5 Billion? Or Will it Be MySpace?

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:02:24 +0000

[...] be clear, there is a long history of rumors surrounding Bebo as an acquisition target that turned out to be false or never panned out. The last [...]

By: Is Bebo Worth $1 billion?

Is Bebo Worth $1 billion? — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:06:27 +0000

[...] our earlier post on possible acquisition talks between Yahoo and Bebo for $1 billion or so. The original report for the story comes from the UK’s Telegraph, based [...]

By: Who Will Buy Facebook?

Who Will Buy Facebook? — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:05:07 +0000

[...] rumors that Yahoo is in talks to acquire Bebo for $1billion may have seen wild 2 years ago, but in [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Yahoo veut son réseau social, nouvelle tentative avec Yahoo Kickstart

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:31:23 +0000

[...] Yahoo tente de faire son entrée dans le monde particulièrement à la mode des réseaux sociaux, depuis un certain temps. Yahoo 360 en tant que plateforme sociale de blogs n’a pas vraiment pris et Yahoo n’a pas non plus réussi à acquerir Facebook. Une rumeur faisait également part d’une tentative de rachat de Bebo par Yahoo, en Mai. [...]

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By: Victor

Victor — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:18:51 +0000

Wow who would think in the 1990’s that sites likes bebo and mysapce can be worth 1 billion

By: VidBu

VidBu — Thu, 24 May 2007 07:03:08 +0000

That’s nice, and a huge price i think though.

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By: socialspace

socialspace — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:08:10 +0000

I expect the acquisition frenzy to continue beyond Bebo. Check out the Alexa trends for all these independent social networks:

http://www.alexa.com/data/deta.....l=bebo.com

By: GetSwinging

GetSwinging — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:10:34 +0000

Wow! 1 Bil for that site is crazy. If a business is going to spend that kind of money they should remember what their Momma always said, “you better shop around!”

By: Gareth O' Neill

Gareth O' Neill — Mon, 21 May 2007 06:41:58 +0000

Bebo is excellent, a lot more structured than MySpace and less advertising muck. But 1billion? For that price, Yahoo are very welcome to buy my sites http://www.buyingcheap.co.uk and http://www.buyingcheap.com.au

By: TechCrunch Japanese

TechCrunch Japanese — Mon, 21 May 2007 00:51:51 +0000

YahooがBebo買収に$1億ドルとの噂…

アップデート: ComscoreによるBebo、MySpace、Facebook の最新トラフィックデータ。

ソーシャルネットワークのBeboが売りに出ているという噂は何カ月かおきに持ちあがる。初めが2006年7月にBritish…

By: Tyler Wright

Tyler Wright — Sun, 20 May 2007 23:48:11 +0000

Bebo is cool. Yahoo! isn’t (although they try really really hard and it shows).

Bebo’s coolness gets killed if they’re Yahoo’ed…

By: thomas55

thomas55 — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:19:09 +0000

It will probably happen, just like with faceboook..

By: Url

Url — Sun, 20 May 2007 15:32:20 +0000

Are we heading towards internet crash 2.0 with all these massive buyouts? BTW what ever happened on the Flektor deal did it go through?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 20 May 2007 14:13:23 +0000

I stumbled upon a PR/Marketing camp @ a pub after work a few weeks back. The Yahoo! marketing head for Canada was there, back from a strategy meeting @ Yahoo! head office. He spoke non-stop about ’social networking’ being flawed, and that Yahoo!’s Groups and ‘360′ were the answer. According to their strategy people want to surround topics not other people and by searching out topics on ‘Groups’ users can find those specific topics and discuss. Funny enough he spent 3/4 of his time talking about Facebook, MySpace and Google.

I’m not sure the presentation of the Yahoo! marketing head [Canuck ops] is enough to add doubt to the story but it gives you an idea what the foot soldiers are being fed from the top.

By: TechJuicer » Blog Archive » Yahoo Wants To Get Into Social Networking

TechJuicer » Blog Archive » Yahoo Wants To Get Into Social Networking — Sun, 20 May 2007 11:22:33 +0000

[...] there has been alot of major takeover talks linked to Yahoo. There is now another rumur that Yahoo want to take over Bebo. This follows the rumur that Yahoo made an offer for Facebook. The still want to get into social [...]

By: chris

chris — Sun, 20 May 2007 11:09:15 +0000

Yahoo already has a social networking site 360, do they really need another Bebo. Will they combine together?

By: Sam Sethi

Sam Sethi — Sun, 20 May 2007 09:41:07 +0000

I had a drink with Michael Birch and Xochi a few moths ago at Internet dinners which are hosted by Robert Loch here in London. I spoke with Michael and Xochi about selling Bebo and asked what price would be enough to sell? $1bn - $3bn

I have read the Telegraph article and have to say there is nothing new in the article and in my humble opinion pure speculation that arises every 6 months about Bebo.

If Bebo do not sell there is always Piczo who are very keen to sell or Netlog which is one of Europe’s biggest social networks with 18m users. http://www.vecosys.com/2007/05.....in-europe/

Finally does Yahoo need to buy into the social network space. Yes, but they also need to buy into online Office application market i.e Zimbra and they also need to make Panama work, so do they need to find their own DoubleClick or aQuinta?

If I was Yahoo I am not sure Bebo would be top of my acquisition list right now but never say never.

By: Jeremy Zawodny

Jeremy Zawodny — Sun, 20 May 2007 09:11:33 +0000

“I have emails in to Bebo and Yahoo for comment.”

Heh.

Does that *ever* work?

By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 20 May 2007 09:09:28 +0000

Comscore data is skewed it only takes into account U.S traffic, if I’m right. So they are probably bigger than anybody assumes or knows.

By: Debbie Davies

Debbie Davies — Sun, 20 May 2007 08:26:44 +0000

Markus, It’s massive exclusively with school children in the UK, which is the wrong place to be for all sorts of reasons.

Debbie

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sun, 20 May 2007 08:14:32 +0000

Allan - The numbers go down every weekend, and come back tuesday morning.

By: Markus

Markus — Sun, 20 May 2007 07:49:26 +0000

Keep in mind the Site is absolutely massive in the UK, and given the exchange rate 1 billion may be cheap.