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Pandora Is Going Public: Pandora IPO and the Future of Pandora

Pablo Palatnik — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:50:07 +0000

It’s not many times that I actually get excited about a company going public but in this case, with Pandora, I see a lot of potential of a company that can raise a lot of money very fast and do a lot with it. So, on June 15, 2011, Pandora is going public. This is actually exciting for me as I’ve been following this company almost since its start up, which was shown to me by a friend. While Pandora has dominated the music stream market, you can also look at what Last.fm was able to do and also now GrooveShark is making some buzz. I am actually a big fan of GrooveShark and may see even more potential there…but right now let’s focus on Pandora.

Here is why I think the Pandora stock is exciting and may be a good long-term investment. With Pandora signing up a new registered user EVERY SECOND, the potential to monetize the website is enormous if it keeps growing its registered user base. We’re talking about selling MP3s, big ad money in its display advertising model, concert tickets, and expanding into other sectors of entertainment such as tv shows, etc.

The stock is said to open at $16 (does seem high to me) which was raised from about its initial $8-10 IPO. I look forward to seeing how this stock plays out in the next few days and in the next few months and what changes happens in this market as I see GrooveShark as a real threat to Pandora. The stock will be offered under the stock symbol, “P” traded in the NYSE.

Check out this post: PANDORA IPO BY THE NUMBERS.

Optimizing Your Crawling and Indexing

Pablo Palatnik — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:18:58 +0000

Googles webmaster blog has a post regarding optimizing basically for the alog to make the best sense of your site and it really comes down to one question, “How easy is it for search engines to crawl your site?” Platforms such as wordpress and other blogs have made it so SEO friendly, that’s why blogs rank pretty well, for the most part that is.

* Remove user-specific details from URLs.

URL parameters that don’t change the content of the page—like session IDs or sort order—can be removed from the URL and put into a cookie. By putting this information in a cookie and 301 redirecting to a “clean” URL, you retain the information and reduce the number of URLs pointing to that same content.

* Rein in infinite spaces.

Do you have a calendar that links to an infinite number of past or future dates (each with their own unique URL)? Do you have paginated data that returns a status code of 200 when you add &page=3563 to the URL, even if there aren’t that many pages of data? If so, you have an infinite crawl space on your website, and crawlers could be wasting their (and your!) bandwidth trying to crawl it all. Consider these tips for reining in infinite spaces.

* Disallow actions Googlebot can’t perform.

Using your robots.txt file, you can disallow crawling of login pages, contact forms, shopping carts, and other pages whose sole functionality is something that a crawler can’t perform. (Crawlers are notoriously cheap and shy, so they don’t usually “Add to cart” or “Contact us.”) This lets crawlers spend more of their time crawling content that they can actually do something with.

* One man, one vote. One URL, one set of content.

In an ideal world, there’s a one-to-one pairing between URL and content: each URL leads to a unique piece of content, and each piece of content can only be accessed via one URL. The closer you can get to this ideal, the more streamlined your site will be for crawling and indexing. If your CMS or current site setup makes this difficult, you can use the rel=canonical element to indicate the preferred URL for a particular piece of content.

10 Questions on SEO with John Carcutt from MediaWhiz

Pablo Palatnik — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:28:03 +0000

In this interview of the PalatnikFactor.com interview series we’ll be talking with John Carcutt, the SEO manager at MediaWhiz and an ex-colleague of mine at MoreVisibility. John is also currently the co-host of Webmaster Radio’s show “SEO 101” and has been in the industry for the past 12 years.

Q: John, thanks for taking the time to do this interview with me. I think, as many people do, SEO is still growing in terms of people getting into it, as well as the demand for it. What do you think is the state of the industry as it is now and going into 2010?

Thanks for asking Pablo.

Well, SEO as an industry is growing steadily. I’m not going to go so far as to say it has been recession proof, but experienced SEOs I know who may have been looking for work in the past year had no trouble finding it.

It’s true that many, many more people are jumping on the SEO bandwagon and the field is starting to feel a bit crowded. The issue is that so many of the new SEOs are just tacticians, it is still rather rare to find someone who’s been in the field long enough to have a real handle on strategy. I’d recommend someone wanting to get into the field to work for someone else or an established firm for a while first, preferably with an old timer willing to and able to share some knowledge.

As for as 2010, the need and desire for SEO is only going to get stronger and the new SEOs are only going to get more experienced. Demand is going to rise faster than the experience and competition for the “cherry” projects is going to get tougher. I’m looking forward to it.

Q: Please give us the John Carcutt point view on PageRank, what it means, and how significant it is to SEO (if at all)?

The main thing PageRank is not is a metric. Do not grade the quality of a linking program by the movement of PR.

First, there are two forms of PR, the “Toolbar PR” and the “Actual PR”. You will never know a page’s Actual PR as Google will never publish it and most likely it is not even the same scale of 0-10 we are so used to. This PR is fluid and changes as often as you build links. This is the PR that affects the rankings of your pages.

The “Toolbar PR” until recently was only updated every quarter or so and is valuable mainly as an indicator. This type of PR is useful to monitor change or quickly evaluate the general strength of a page.

The interesting thing most people don’t understand about PR is that a specific niche or market segment contains a dedicated amount of PR that is distributed throughout the niche. This “amount” can grow and shrink based on the market activity and competition. Matt Cutts has even suggested to us that a specific niche can gain too much PR and the entire amount is reduced impacting almost every site in a niche.

That said, PR is nowhere near as important as is used to be. This is not to say that link building is not important, it is still a major cornerstone of any SEO program. However, don’t rely on PR as the metric to measure link building’s impact.

Q:Given tighter budgets and giving more thought on paid directories like paying yahoo $299 for a link, what paid directories are worth putting your money into?

This is one of those things I have to look at on a per client basis. Some sites may gain from top tier directory listings for others it may not be worth the effort. New sites can get a jump on the deep crawl sometimes if they get listed in these. Existing sites with a decent set of back links may not benefit at all.

Take a look at the budget as well. Can you spend that $299 you might give to Yahoo! on other link building techniques that would give better results based on the market? For example, a local pizza joint may see better results spending that $299 on a few local site listings as opposed to one general pizza listing on Yahoo. It’s a “Bang for the Buck” kind of thing.

Q: What are your most successful link building strategies? (I’m sure the readers will appreciate this but only list what you’d like =) ) Or to rephrase, which link building strategies do you find most effective?

The most effective link building strategy I use is “diversification”. Be creative and use a variety of link build techniques. If you find your using the same techniques over and over again, make yourself do something different to build that next link. Engines look for natural link growth; this by its very natural means the types of links found should be diverse. Don’t get stuck in a link building rut.

Q: What are you favorite SEO tools?

My all time favorite tool is one I have used for SEO Audits for as long as I can remember. It’s Rex Swains “HHTP Viewer” http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html I can’t tell you how many issues this has resolved for me over the years. It’s great for redirect identification, but it also displays the actual code sent by the server to the browser prior to any browser side modifications.

Jon is putting together some great stuff over at Raven-SEO-Tools.com and I am also working with a new tool out of Germany called Search Metrics. Both of these provide great resources for tracking and reporting on SEO.

Q: How do your SEO efforts differ when it comes to optimizing for Yahoo vs. Google

To be honest, not much. Good SEO practices should have you performing similarly on both engines.

If I am seeing vast differences between the two, I know that Google will weigh links more than Yahoo and Yahoo will weigh content heavier than Google. So I can make adjustments based on that.

Q: How do you see this Bing/Yahoo deal playing out for SEOs? Any serious implications or changes?

This is going to depend tremendously on how the integration is actually handled. How much control will Yahoo retain over the actual SERPs. What type and how much data is Bing going to send over to Yahoo. We just don’t know yet. For all we know, Bing could just be the data center and Yahoo would continue to apply its own algorithm to that data. We just don’t know.

The two big questions I have are … What happens to paid inclusion and are we going to lose Site Explorer? It will be interesting to see.

Q: Does Dmoz still hold serious weight?

This goes back to the same issue as we discussed for directories over all. It depends; some pages of that site will provide much more benefit than others. For example, if your category page has 150 listings, it’s not going to pass much link juice at all.

I don’t see any reason not to submit; it’s free and only takes a few minutes once you find the right category. Don’t worry about your listing, as many others often say, Dmoz is “submit it and forget it”.

Q: Due to spamming techniques of link building, many say the algos will go back to rank more based on content than links, how do you see this?

I don’t know who these “many” are, but they need to remember there are plenty of content spamming techniques as well. The algos will continue to contain a wide variety of factors and they will add new ones all the time.

Will content become more important than links? Some people have always maintained that opinion. I see that debate continuing for quite some time.

If you want to talk about changes to the algos, let’s talk about how local factors and real time search are going to change the game. I am already seeing IP based local search factors influencing my SERPs even when I am not logged into personal search. Real time search may end up having a large impact on the algos and what we do as SEOs.

Q: What is the biggest mis-conception of SEO today?

It’s the thought that SEO is an “Add-on” to your site that makes it perform better in the search engines.

More people need to learn and understand (even SEOs) that this process is a business process and should be included at every level of site’s lifespan. SEO is not something you do to your site; it’s something you do with your business.

I guess to put it simply; the mis-conception is that most people don’t think they need an SEO to be involved until they need meta data or some links. The fact is SEOs are needed from the day the site is conceived until the day it is turned off.

Thanks for the questions Pablo, I really enjoyed the conversation.

A Closer Look at Googles Numbers and Engine Competition

Pablo Palatnik — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:49:51 +0000

Some of us are so invovled in the work we do as online marketers that sometimes we forget to seek out financial news regarding these engines that an truly affect what we do and how we do it.

Small Businesses Allocating More Dollars Online with Segmenentation and Local Marketing

Pablo Palatnik — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:17:40 +0000

If you read todays eMarketer report, you’ll find something that isnt surprising to us online marketers. Small business are having to do more with less these days and the best place to allocate advertising dollars is online, especially with so many channels allowing for targeted segmentation and locality as you can use through FaceBook Ads and others.

“In addition, marketers say the outlook for small-business marketing has changed in 2009. They are increasing their online activities, becoming more focused and conducting segmentation research to better target their customers.”

You can see the full report here.

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A Look at Yahoo and Google in the Market

Pablo Palatnik — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:16:02 +0000

Did You Invest in Internet Companies Stocks?

Pablo Palatnik — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:34:23 +0000

As the economic crisis (and I hate using that term now, but we are in a freakin recession!) continues to hit Wallstreet hard, it seems companies we deal everyday as online marketers are being hit hard by the market as well.

GOOG – As Google continues to dominate in search, etc, its stock value has declined in a big way. Trading currently at around $326.80 (Oct. 10, 2008 10:55am), its 52 week high was $747.24!

YHOO – I actually own stock in Yahoo and man, this stock is plunging quick and who knows where the bleeding will end. It is currently trading at $12.55 (Oct. 10, 2008 10:55am), its 52 week high was $34.08. Microsoft offered Yahoo $33 per share and they turned it down, OUCH! Now it is below the $13 mark.

eBay – eBays’ stock has remained a powerhouse online stock for many years. With its recent news about cutting jobs and buyouts, it’s still a solid stock but concerns about its compeititon to Amazon and maybe losing marketshare on that end grew. It’s currently trading at $15.93 (Oct. 10, 2008 11:00am), its 52 week high was $40.73.

AMZN – Amazon is like the Google of shopping, well, almost. It is one of the most solid online companies. It’s currently trading at $54.97 (Oct. 10, 2008 11:00am), its 52 week high was $101.09.

OSTK – Overstock has been a solid player but it has been tough for them to really gain the marketshare I think they desired when they launched a serious campaign of TV commercials, etc.

If you look at the big players, OverStock.com is not close to competing with the big boys in that market. It’s currently trading at $14.33 (Oct. 10, 2008 11:00am), its 52 week high was $39.39.

BIDZ – Bidz isn’t a very big website per say but its worth noting. It is a jewelry auction based website Had a strong affiliate marketing campaign to really get itself out there. It’s currently trading at $6.46 (Oct. 10, 2008 11:10am), its 52 week high was $22.50.

AICI – IAC/InterActiveCorp which houses its biggest property, Ask.com has been stuggling for a long time with its market share in search. It’s currently trading at $14.96 (Oct. 10, 2008 11:10am), its 52 week high was $33.36.

EXPE – Expedia has been a sound stock for a while. One if not the most popular online travel agency in the world (or the U.S.) not sure what the market share is like in that industry. It’s currently trading at $12.01 (Oct. 10, 2008 11:10am), its 52 week high was $34.89.

TZOO – TravelZoo has always been competing with Expedia but never gained its popularity. It’s currently trading at $7.10 (Oct. 10, 2008 11:20am), its 52 week high was $23.20

Current State of Economy for Start-Ups: Fire People & Raise Capital

Pablo Palatnik — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:35:36 +0000

It wasn’t too long ago where venture capitalist were throwing money like it was growing in trees to web based (tech related) start-ups. We also saw this in the dot com scene of the late 90′s. Well, it’s nearing the end of 2008 and the economy keeps declining with the stock market having its biggest drops in history and credit markets freezing which as we all see, is slowing the economy tremendously raising big concerns for investors and threading very carefully about their next investment.

Ron Conway, one of the icons of the online economy and an angel investor in about 130 start-up companies, being a investor in the early stages of Google, Ask, and PayPal, has sent a very alarming but similar toned email to its current portfolio companies.

As the NYTs puts it, “Mr. Conway’s message to entrepreneurs is a bit self-serving, focusing on preserving the value of the portfolio company to investors and buyers as opposed to protecting employees’ jobs. And it complements the advice that venture capitalist Mike Kwatinetz just gave to his fellow V.C.’s: take advantage of market weakness to buy cheap stakes in good companies that need the cash.”

Here is the email Mr. Conway sent out:

From: Ron Conway
Date: Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Subject: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ ASAP …..REGARDING CURRENT MARKET CONDITIONS…Confidential

We have all been absorbed by the turmoil in the financial markets the past few weeks

Unlike the turmoil of 2000 when the “action” was centered right here in Silicon Valley this time is it centered on Wall Street…..but it has rippled to the west coast quickly and we will not be “immune” to its drastic effects.

I was an active investor in 2000 when the “bubble burst” and remember it vividly and want to give you the SAME EXACT advice I gave to my portfolio company CEOs back then.

I have pasted in the emails I sent on April 17th 2000 and May 10th 2000 and every word applies today.

Unfortunately history DOES repeat itself but I hope we can learn from history and prevent the turmoil from occurring again.

The message is simple. Raising capital will be much more difficult now.

You should lower your “burn rate” to raise at least 3-6 months or more of funding via cost reductions, even if it means staff reductions and reduced marketing and G&A expenses. This is the equivalent to “raising an internal round” through cost reductions to buy you more time until you need to raise money again; hopefully when fund raising is more feasible. Letting go of staff is hard and often gut wrenching. A re-evaluation of timelines and re-focus on milestones with the eye of doing more with less will allow you to live many more days, and the name of the game in this environment in some respects is survival–survival until conditions change.

If you are in a funding cycle, you should raise your funding as soon as possible and raise as much as possible but face the fact that if you can’t raise money now you must cut costs.

While I do not own a large percentage of your company I hope you will consider this thoughtful advice.

I was here in 2000 and want to share what I learned through many years of experience and historical “pattern recognition”!

Here are the two emails from the year 2000 that I referred to above and all the statements apply in today’s market:

To: Angel Investors, L.P. Portfolio CEOs
Date: 04/17/2000 05:24 PM
From: Ron Conway
RE: Market Conditions Effect on Angel Investors, L.P. Portfolio
Companies

The down draft in the stock market sends us some obvious “signals” and we can’t help but mention them.

1. If you are in a funding cycle, you should raise your funding as soon as possible and raise as much as possible.

2. Many companies are ignoring certain VC leads we’ve provided in order to concentrate on the top tier only. While we have preached that in the past, this is no longer the case. Currently, top-tier VC bandwidth constraints, coupled with the market down draft, make it very important to take meetings with any VCs where you can get their attention. We have been working hard to open up this new bandwidth.

3. You must aggressively examine and pursue M&A opportunities (unless you have over 12 months of cash reserves!) ro insure you have critical mass (including funding, customers, rolodex power, market share, cash, synergy, etc.).

4. Be realistic on valuations – they will fall so be ready and willing to co-operate.

5. Look for corporate partners to invest so you can raise more money. You should also consider a sale of your company to your corporate partners.

6. If you are entering a funding cycle start raising money sooner rather than later.

7. While it’s safe to say entrepreneurs have had negotiating leverage with the “down draft” in the market, the VC community will start exercising their leverage.

Buying Stock in KongZhong Corporation

Pablo Palatnik — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:38:20 +0000

Looking at technology and advertising companies in our sector, I came upon KongZhong Corporation under the stock ticker ADR which trades in the Nasdaq. This stock currently is trading at $4, but it is pointless to talk about stock prices as that literally changes by the second when the market opens.

Let’s look at the the summary of this company:

KongZhong Corporation provides interactive entertainment, media and community services through multiple technology platforms to mobile phone users. The Company provides most of its services through 2.5G technology platforms, including wireless application protocol (WAP), multimedia messaging services (MMS) and Java. It also offers a range of data and voice services through second-generation (2G) technology platforms, including short messaging services (SMS), interactive voice response (IVR) and color ring back tone (CRBT). The Company delivers a range of services that users can access directly from their mobile phones, including by choosing an icon embedded in select models of handsets, or from a mobile operator’s portal or Website. Its services are organized in three major categories, consisting of interactive entertainment, media and community

We are in the brink of the mobile craze online applications, etc. The iPhone and Blackberry both have sparked an inmense world of online mobile opportunities as the technology on the phones allow users to better utalize the internet. Mobile is the future and I don’t see an investment gone wrong in a company that provides mobile platforms.

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Buying Stock in Yahoo: YHOO

Pablo Palatnik — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:29:22 +0000

I love the stock market. I keep a close eye on certain companies I follow because I like them or I like the industry. Lately, Iâ€™ve had a close eye on the technology sector given thatâ€™s what we do as online marketers, keep an eye on technology and advertising/marketing companies. I guess you can define a search engine as both.

Iâ€™ve only made one real stock purchase and that was about 4-5 years ago when I bought shares in NetFlix:NFLX at around $12-14, now it is at around +$30.

I had some money to invest in a money market account and decided to buy shares in Yahoo (YHOO). There is so much controversy and speculation surrounding this company, but it is the 2nd largest search engine in the U.S. AND itâ€™s got some of the hottest properties on the web. Itâ€™s currently re-organizing its board with some of the biggest names in business. It will be appointing former Viacomâ€™s CEO Frank Biondi and former Nextel Partners CEO John Chapple.

Yahoo was about to be sold to Microsoft so MSFT could build its online business to compete with Google but that didnâ€™t happen. That could be back in the table any day as it has gone back and fourth for a bit but now Yahoo has made a search deal with Google to outsource some of its search.

The stock is currently lingering at around $20 (I bought my shares at $19.90.) Its 52 week high is $34.08 and its 52 week low is $18.52.

Given that I believe Yahoo wonâ€™t go anywhere and will either become stronger or a deal will come about soon that will benefit the company, this is a good buy if you can invest. The stock right now (if you own it) analyst opinion is hold but some say it is also a strong buy.

Google Offering Real-Time Stock Quotes

Pablo Palatnik — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:28:09 +0000

Loren from SEJ just reported that Google Finance is now offering Real-Time Stock Quotes! I think that’s something impressive and really worth noting. Yahoo Finance actually charges for that service and to get real-time stock quotes, you basically have to have a brokerage account.

Google has really been competing in this financial news sector with Yahoo! Finance which is actually praised by many to be the top of the top in stock financial news.

Google Finance will offer these sectors for Real-Time quotes:
* Dow Jones Indices
* NASDAQ Indices
* NASDAQ Stock Exchange
* New York Stock Exchange Indices
* S&P Indices
* Shanghai Stock Exchange
* Shenzhen Stock Exchange

Google: Media or Tech?

Pablo Palatnik — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:42:52 +0000

As a marketing platform, Google has become the largest online advertising channel in the world through the Adwords platform and you can even say just from having your site rank well in the organic results. But as a company, how does the public and maybe more important for Google, how do investors see Google? Is it a developing technology company or media company?

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Google: Media or Tech?

Bloomberg-Clip – (BLOOM-Clip)

Oct. 30, 2007. 11:29 AM EST

Roundtable Discussion with Scott Kessler of S&P and Featured Guest Leo Hindery of Intermedia Partners

What do you think? Is it an advertising company, technology company, or both? 99% of its revenue from advertising? Google has become the largest advertising agency in the world not only placing ads on millions of websites through Adsense and displaying billions of ads through their search engine, but ventured into radio advertising and print advertising.

It has become the new age of advertising technology and Google created the largest platform in the world. You can create a marketing campaign just using Google and have incredible marketing results.

If you want to talk about Technology…two words: Google Earth. If you watch the news and see images of an air strike in Iraq or California wild fires, sure enough, you will see images provided by Google. A partnership with NASA is also in the works or has already begun. A phone like the iPhone with Google applications should be out at some point where I’m sure you’ll have an adsense ad right in the welcome screen =).

I think a mix of both is what made this company grow and what it has become today. MediTech. I’M COINING THE WORD “MEDITECH”…BREAKING NEWS IN THE PALATNIKFACTOR.

Is Microsoft The Next Google?

Pablo Palatnik — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:57:18 +0000

Itâ€™s funny that the question for so long was â€œis Google the next Microsoft?â€ Could this question now be reversed? Iâ€™m not a financial analyst but you donâ€™t have to be when you look at what each stock is worth. Now, how much does a stock price say about a company? It speaks volumes on current revenue (not all the time), expected revenue, future outlook, current events, and more.

Goog (Google Stock): $679.23 as of Oct. 30, 2007
MSFT (Microsoft Stock): $34.57 as of Oct. 30, 2007

I pose the question in the title financially. Could Microsoft raise their stock price to that of Googleâ€™s at some point? The stock price canâ€™t determine that Google is in fact a bigger company than Microsoft but I believe it to be (or use it as) an indicator or public and future outlook. Iâ€™d personally value Microsoftâ€™s stock to be worth more.

Microsoft appears in Forbes Fortune 500 companies at #49 in 2007 & Google at number #241. So, why the craze with Google and why is Microsoft seen as the company that tries to catch up? It comes down to stock price and future outlook.

If you ask the general public which company is bigger, without a question people would answer â€œMicrosoft, of course.â€ Indeed, it is. The buzz is so loud around the net (blogoshere, news sites, and stock watch) about the Goog, which many see Microsoft as the company that is trailingâ€¦and really, itâ€™s only trailing in terms of search.

Letâ€™s look at the latest companies Acquisitions:

2007 Microsoft:
August 30, 2007 -Parlano
July 26, 2007 -AdECN, Inc.
May 18, 2007 -aQuantive, Inc.
May 3, 2007 -ScreenTonic
March 14, 2007 -Tellme Networks, Inc.
February 26, 2007 -Medstory Inc.

2007 Google:
1. 2007-07-09 – Google to Acquire Postini
- Services for Message Security, Archiving, Encryption, and Policy Enforcement
2. 2007-07-02 – Google Acquires GrandCentral Communications
- Services for Managing Voice Communications
3. 2007-06-19 – Google Acquires Zenter
- Online Slide Presentations
4. 2007-06-05 – Google Acquires PeakStream Inc
- Multiprocessor and GPU Software
5. 2007-06-01 – Google Acquires Feedburner
- Feed Distribution and Management Tools
6. 2007-05-30 – Google Acquires Panoramio
- Community Photos Website (Works with Google Earth)
7. 2007-05-11 – Google Acquires Green Border Technologies
- Secure Connections for Web Browsing and Email
8. 2007-04-19 – Google Acquires Marratech – Video Conferencing Software
9. 2007-04-17 – Google Acquires Tonic Systems
- Presentation Creation and Document Conversion Technology
10. 2007-04-13 – Google Acquires Doubleclick
- Advertising Technology Platform
11.2007-03-16 – Google Acquires Trendalyzer
- Presentation Software
12. 2007-03-16 – Google Acquires Adscape Media
- In-Game Advertising for Video Games
13. 2007-01-00 – Google Acquires Xunlei (Partial Acquisition)
- File Sharing Website

With more acquisitions from Google, Microsoft has stated recently to buy 20 small companies a year! ((*Tip: Start something cool and innovative online that could match Microsoftâ€™s portfolio and offer it to them!))

Now the question stands, do you think Microsoft can achieve the Google stock price? Is Google just way over priced? Can MSN someday, somehow, catch up to Googleâ€™s search market share, at least catch up? If there is one prediction I can make is thisâ€¦If Microsoft purchases Yahoo, which I think is very possible, we have a search competition on our hands.

Google Stock To Hit $700

Pablo Palatnik — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:48:08 +0000

Wow…stocks always amazed me, specially the stocks of companies I have close relationships too…I do consider myself to have a strong relationship with Google cause Google is what makes part of my company and what I do WORK.

“Average Price Target Rising – $619.25/share, Up $11.25/share From Two Weeks Ago; Two Upgrades Today from Bank of America and Lehman; Google to Show YouTube Videos With Ads on Publishers’ Web Sites”

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Google May Find $700 Stock Soon, Lehman Says

Bloomberg-Clip – (BLOOM-Clip)

Oct. 09, 2007. 08:35 AM EST

Average Price Target Rising – $619.25/share, Up $11.25/share From Two Weeks Ago; Two Upgrades Today from Bank of America and Lehman; Google to Show YouTube Videos With Ads on Publishers’ Web Sites

What does this mean? Well…the stock says a lot about a company and where they are headed. At this point, Yahoo and MSN are pretty stable in their stocks win or lose a couple of points per day. Google is the talk of the town in the online financial sector. Can it rise to $700? I’ll go ahead and say probably way more as it will continue to rise.

Yahoo! Could Break Up For 66% More Value

Pablo Palatnik — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:50:47 +0000

So much speculation is going around about Yahoo now breaking up the company, why? According to financial experts, if Yahoo breaks the company apart…the value of Yahoo (stock wise) will be worth more. It doesn’t come from a user process sense (in terms of how the company runs,) but purely for financial reasons and stock holders pressure.