Google Gains Right To Sell AOL Stake

Google's owned a five percent stake in AOL for the better part of three years.  Now, thanks to the passage of time and the terms of their partnership, the search giant's getting the option of escaping.

Facebook’s Value Is Decreasing

If you’ve forgotten, just nine months ago, Microsoft purchased a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million. Doing the math from that, the total value of Facebook last October was $15B.

Nobody Went Public Last Quarter

For the first time in thirty years, Wall Street saw a quarter come and go with no companies going public. The second quarter of 2008 proved to be a disappointing one all around. Adding on to residual distrust from the dotcom bust, venture capitalists and investment firms are reluctant to debut their startups to the public market during such a weak climate. Memories of Vonage's…

GoDaddy Auction VP Gets Slashdot Treatment

There's nothing improper about the VP of aftermarket domain auctions bidding up domain prices, says GoDaddy, but they've banned employees from participating in the future anyway, just to make everybody happy. And likely, to make the all the dirty looks go away. What looked like an idle comment in NamePros.com's domain forum stirred up the hornets nest a bit. The comment from a senior forum…

Google Apps Catches Big Customer

Google Apps is something we don't hear about too often; compared to search, it simply doesn't come up.  Google Apps is getting along just fine, though, and a new development involving Taylor Woodrow proves this point.