Vidize Blog » mashup http://www.vidize.com/blog Record video interviews and dialogs online Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:08:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Google buys Youtube? http://www.vidize.com/blog/archives/google-buys-youtube/ http://www.vidize.com/blog/archives/google-buys-youtube/#comments Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:21:44 +0000 admin http://www.vidize.com/blog/archives/google-buys-youtube/ Yahoo bought Jumpcut, it makes sense that Google want to expand further in that space as well. They recently put video on their homepage to promote their Google Video service. Traffic stats indicate it lags far behind Youtube (source: Hitwise).

Now, TechCrunch posts that there are rumors that Google’s going to acquire Youtube.

The Wall Street Journal is now reporting this as well, saying “Google Inc. is in talks to acquire popular video-sharing site YouTube Inc. for roughly $1.6 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. The discussions are still at a sensitive stage and could well break off, this person says.”

It’s pretty obvious that Youtube have the FOR SALE BY OWNER sign on their front lawn. Their burnrate is in the millions per month which is close to the days of Bubble 1.0. Let’s see what happens.

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]]> http://www.vidize.com/blog/archives/google-buys-youtube/feed/ 1 Yahoo buys Jumpcut http://www.vidize.com/blog/archives/yahoo-buys-jumpcut/ http://www.vidize.com/blog/archives/yahoo-buys-jumpcut/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:54:49 +0000 admin http://www.vidize.com/blog/archives/yahoo-buys-jumpcut/ GigaOM published this recently. There weren’t a lot of comments because Jumpcut was just a few months old and a relative unknown in the video arena. (Youtube sucking all the free PR!) Here’s what Liz had to say:

When I met Jumpcut earlier this summer, they had 11 employees, had raised $1 million in seed money, and were trying to close another round. Perhaps it has to do with Jumpcut’s fairly advanced experimentation with Flash, led by former Macromedia developer Ryan Cunningham.

When I proposed buying Jumpcut might be a good competitive edge for one of the online video sharing sites or portals, CEO Mike Folgner told me he’d wasn’t looking to settle down with just one company, rather to build partnerships with everybody. Ah well…I can understand how a Yahoo acquisition offer could be persuasive.

Guess she’s right. Only problem is once Yahoo buys you there isn’t much AGILE development anymore. There’s some internal competition to boot. UC Berkley and Yahoo have already been developing a their own video mashup site. I guess they simply want to take Jumpcut off the market before Google buys them. Or, God forbid they become a real hit like Youtube!

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