acquisition

$30-$40 million dollars for 2 million visitors. In fairness, since it's for sharing shopping items, they may have a high cpm.

Quoted: Kaboodle, founded by Manish Chandra, Keiron McCammon, Chetan Pungaliya, closed a key distribution deal with eBay a year ago. Comscore numbers show rapid growth, with 2 million or so unique monthly visitors currently.
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The acquisition price is not being disclosed, but we’re hearing it was somewhere between $30 - $40 million, all cash.

Quoted: Feedburner is in the closing stages of being acquired by Google for around $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly upfront, according to our source, although the founders will be locked in for a couple of years.

Redot.

Quoted: Valleywag reports that the social news site, a frequent acquisition gossip item, might really be getting sold this time around.

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Meet the YouTube founders following the acquisition. Pretty cool how random it is.

Quoted: The YouTube founders talk about the Google acquisition.

timeline of google's acquisitions .. kind of neat, but it wont blow your mind.

Good for them! Our friends at Jellyfish are becoming part of Microsoft (but staying in WI).

I must say I found their shopping site quite fun.

Quoted: Microsoft has acquired Madison, Wisconsin based discount shopping service Jellyfish.com. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed, but the deal was sealed ...

Wow! $3 million for probably less than 2 months of work!

Quoted: TripAdvisor has acquired Facebook Application Where I’ve Been for a reported $3 million. Where I've Been allows users to share where they have ...

redotted from pullman.

Quoted: The biggest windfalls went to YouTube’s three founders and its main financial backer, Sequoia Capital.

Interesting take on the Kaboodle acquisition from another player in the social shopping space.

Quoted: Current ecommerce models are search-driven and do not facilitate much happy serendipity the way a great “experience store” or advice from a friend can and thus leave a LOT of potential sales on the table.
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Who knows. Kaboodle’s sale for 1/1000th of 1% of the addressable market will, I think, come to look like an inverse/road-not-taken version of Google’s early decision not to sell to Excite, instead choosing to go it alone to obvious success. Hearst, on the other hand, now has a toolset that they might be able to turn into a cash cow, their culture permitting (though gridlock and stasis would not surprise me).