EBay's Skype Bubble Bursts

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eBay acquiring skype, that's what happens when you let a WOMAN (meg whitman) run things

by the way, about that youtube acquisition by google - i think it was a brilliant move because youtube has become a defining cultural icon, almost as much as google itself. no kidding.
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Women CEO's have historically destroyed more shareholder value than they have generated. Ebay can easily double its market cap by turning paypal into a full fledged online banking and financial enterprise for its members.
 
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Women CEO's have historically destroyed more shareholder value than they have generated. Ebay can easily double its market cap by turning paypal into a full fledged online banking and financial enterprise for its members.
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PayPal sucks ... it's junk ... their service is crap ... and the worst thing (for customers but best for them) is there is no real competitor in this field
 
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By now, if you don't have a clue how to monetize your web traffic, that "business model" isn't worth a damn. Well, maybe the servers and wires could be worth something if sold as scrap. The only web based business model that's worth a damn are models like GOOG. Now that's a cash machine worth $1000.00/shr in the horizon. It'll pump out cash regardless of american economic conditions and that's worth the premium.
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people get bored of things real fast ... yahoo was God sometime until they started powering their search engine with google then after that google got all famous ... but I wouldn't say google is there forever ... would you?
 
Personally I feel that in time (next 5 years) Goog's purchase of YouTube will look like THE internet deal of the last 10 years.

We'll see.
 
I find it funny how GOOG says/thinks they are going to make money with Youtube?! All these "viewers", how exactly are they going to turn them into money? These companies acquire websites with millions of hits a day that make ZERO money. No business model whatsoever.

Oh yea online advertising :p
 
GOOG via YouTube basically owns video on the web and if that's not worth $1.6b then I don't know what is.

Making money out of video is not going to be that hard and in fact it's just starting.

Within a year most if not all youtube clips will have a 5-15 sec advert before you can see the clip.

You can't do that with a Skype call.
 
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GOOG via YouTube basically owns video on the web and if that's not worth $1.6b then I don't know what is.

Making money out of video is not going to be that hard and in fact it's just starting.

Within a year most if not all youtube clips will have a 5-15 sec advert before you can see the clip.

You can't do that with a Skype call.
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This is how people talk that have no idea about making money on the net. "Youtube basically owns video". Sure, just like Altavista owned search, or how Hotmail owned email, or how ICQ owned instant messaging.

Entry barriers (especially capital requirements) in online are extremely small compared to brick and mortar industries and leadership often changes every 24-36 months. All of these billion dollar acquisitions are wide open to be threatened tomorrow by little college kid setups that are being started today with no capital whatsoever but might turn out to be the next big thing and take away all the eyeballs from Youtube, Facebook or heck knows what garbage vaporware setup.
 
There ARE already similar sites on the web like Youtube. If they start to show ads, people will just switch...

In IT things and positions can change very fast...
 
Anybody here remember when Yahoo acquired Geocities for like $1 bln or whatever in 2000/2001. Yea, they owned "free hosting" for surfers LMAO. Now it's dead. $1 bln blown out of the window.
 
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