Save Yahoo from Microsoft!
If you went to Yahoo today, you may have noticed its message for stockholders on the front page. Long story short: some guy wants to rip Yahoo apart and sell it to Microsoft for a quick buck. Yahoo wants stockholders to vote against this dismemberment.
Fortunately, the message seems to be coming through loud and clear. I’m not a big fan of putting worthless drama on your front page, but this is not worthless drama. It’s not blog comment drama, and it’s certainly not 4chan drama. It’s $44.6 billion drama.
If you’re Filipino, Yahoo’s probably your email address and instant messenger, and those of your loved ones as well. You may not own Yahoo stock, but your readers might. Let them know how you feel about Microsoft trying to tear your portal apart.
I’m not the world’s biggest Yahoo fan, but I don’t want to see it torn apart by Microsoft.
Tags: Investment, microsoft, Tech, Yahoo
July 19, 2008 | Filed Under Investment, Tech | Post a CommentOpenCoffee Club Comes to Manila
The OpenCoffee Club is a new initiative to bring together entrepreneurs, developers and investors around the world. In a testament to the viral power of online networking, they’ve already got chapters in 51 cities within a span of just two months. Syndeo Media’s Hans Koch just started a Manila chapter.
First meetup’s Thursday at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Greenbelt 3, Makati. I can’t make it that day, but do check it out if you can. The Philippines is getting left behind, and we need to put good ideas in front of investors.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Greenbelt, Hans-Koch, Investment, Makati, OpenCoffee, Philippines, Syndeo-Media
June 5, 2007 | Filed Under Entrepreneurship, Investment, Philippines | 3 CommentsGoogle Acquisition Tip: Go Crazy
Wanna sell something to Google for a billion dollars? Here’s a tip: go crazy.
“We look at everything very carefully,” Salman Ullah, Google’s director of corporate development, said yesterday in a speech at a meeting of the Los Angeles Venture Association. “The really crazy ones do really well.”
“The crazy ones mean they ignore the usual restraints of investment levels required or design parameters or ‘Gee I need more servers than anyone ever thought was possible’,” Ullah said. “When you free yourselves from these constraints, you create crazy, cool things.”
(Via John Batelle.)
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Google, Investment, Salman-Ullah, Search
April 13, 2007 | Filed Under Entrepreneurship, Investment, Search | 2 Comments-
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Mike Abundo serves as Vice-President for Online Services of the Philippine Internet Commerce Society. He also writes for Inside Online Video and Tech Side Up. Email him at mike@mikeabundo.com.
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