Comments on: Is Bebo Worth $1 billion?

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

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:20:05 +0000

[...] out to be false or never panned out. The last one was in May 2007, when Yahoo supposedly wanted to buy it for $1 billion. At a TechCrunch party last summer (before I was working here), Bebo CEO Michael Birch told me that [...]

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By: Profy.Com

Profy.Com — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:38:11 +0000

(Reasoned) Spring Fever In The Valley…

Spring fever is out in full force in the Valley, and the contagion is cash. Lots of cash.
The last few weeks were filled with news of buyouts followed by, oh yes, more buyouts. Google nabbed DoubleClick; MySpace purchased Photobucket; Microsoft bought…

By: m_eiman

m_eiman — Mon, 21 May 2007 09:01:51 +0000

Drama 2.0: I guess that’s true. Now I’m just wondering: which river is it they’re throwing their money into, and how do I get a bit down-stream from them?

By: Drama 2.0

Drama 2.0 — Mon, 21 May 2007 08:25:33 +0000

m_eiman: Yahoo threw over five billion one dollar bills in the river in 1999, so at the very least you would be able to say that they’re getting more efficient in building bridges to nowhere.

By: m_eiman

m_eiman — Mon, 21 May 2007 08:11:49 +0000

Am I the only one wondering how it can be reasonable to pay $73 per unique user on such a fickle thing as a website? How can they expect to make back their money before the web crowd heads over to the next big thing?

Maybe I’m just missing the point of the whole thing, but it does seem like throwing a billion one dollar bills in the river to walk over it instead of building a proper bridge.

By: gofederer

gofederer — Mon, 21 May 2007 04:21:10 +0000

no is calling out why this might be more valuable to Yahoo! then other potential suitors. Y! search share in the UK, and the EU in general, is really poor (the opposite of Asia - which they own). The UK has the highest search monetization in the world, so if a strong social networking property can be used to grow search share it’ll pay for itself. BT, Viacom, etc. don’t have the same upside.

By: TechCrunch Japanese

TechCrunch Japanese — Mon, 21 May 2007 02:57:28 +0000

Beboに$1Bの価値はあるのか？…

$1B（10億ドル）のYahooとBeboの買収の話合いについては前の記事を見てほしい。この話題の元ネタはイギリスのTelegraphで、実際のところ情報源は非常に弱くて、「シリコンバレーのうわさ….

By: Mark S

Mark S — Mon, 21 May 2007 01:38:17 +0000

Uh, in a word and to answer your question - no.

By: CIC2007

CIC2007 — Mon, 21 May 2007 01:02:19 +0000

Do you really think Social Networking sites are dying? It seems as though if anything, they are just growing more and more powerful. I noticed as sites and virtual worlds like MySpace and Second Life grow more popular, people are have developed their daily routine around them. Now I am not one to say Yahoo should spend $1 billion on Bebo, but I can see why they are considering it.

If you could design the ideal social networking site, what are some of the things you would include?

By: Buxr

Buxr — Sun, 20 May 2007 20:43:35 +0000

Yahoo could spend a 1 billion and improve their search!

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 20 May 2007 20:19:28 +0000

Why, why does Yahoo want to waste cash on these things? There’s so many better things that Yahoo could do with a billion dollars.

By: STFU

STFU — Sun, 20 May 2007 18:06:10 +0000

“about equal to Facebook and a bit more than Facebook.”

End of paragraph 2, you should fix that.

By: Charl

Charl — Sun, 20 May 2007 17:31:31 +0000

What happened to reading over your body copy Mike..

By: Otis Gospodnetic

Otis Gospodnetic — Sun, 20 May 2007 17:08:20 +0000

Duncan:

Either my comment got eaten or is waiting for approval or I messed something up. In any case, I recently learned that Alexa is/might be Asia-biased and underrepresenting the U.S. and especially Europe. See this:

http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/.....Apart.html

My guess is this is related to privacy and the desire of Americans and esp. Europeans to keep it, while Asian population doesn’t have equally strong privacy concerns.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 20 May 2007 16:48:53 +0000

@ Hari: “Here’s the Comscore comparison chart for the three companies” - comScore.com

By: Robert silsby

Robert silsby — Sun, 20 May 2007 14:02:02 +0000

Congoo.com and perfspot.com are two new sites whose traffic is going through the roof. Watch for these as potential aquisition targets too.

By: Hari

Hari — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:43:58 +0000

May i ask a question, Mike ?
From where and how do you get these charts ?

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:42:28 +0000

I thought comScore was primarily focused on the US metrics market? How good is their coverage outside of the US, and in particular the UK where Bebo is its most popular? Alexa for example shows Bebo as being the 12th most popular site overall in the UK and that 35% of Bebo’s traffic comes from Britain compared to under 10% from the US.

By: Jessup

Jessup — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:35:21 +0000

isn’t Bebo growing much faster than either MySpace or Facebook in Europe, especially the UK?

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 13:34:23 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:21:11 +0000

“about equal to Facebook and a bit more than Facebook”

I guess one of these should read Myspace?

By: ChandraB

ChandraB — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:09:49 +0000

I expect we’ll see this acquisition go through - Yahoo needs this acquisition badly, much as Bebo needs someone with deep pockets to buy them (and there are not tha many companies that can afford or want to pay $1B for a social network). As you pointed out Yahoo has few choices, though I bet they could expand the user base if they added Yahoo eyeballs.

By: UpstartThis

UpstartThis — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:06:48 +0000

Social networking sites are so overhyped that it reminds me of the old .com bubble. Truly wonderful for the startups that have time to cash out, but it probably is going to burst soon enough. What do you think?