When I first saw this (thanks for the heads up Kaila) my thoughts turned to the calendar – surely I thought to myself it must be the First of April. But no – it would appear that this is…
I would have thought that the gang at Yahoo would have very little time to do anything but to; a) plan possible partnerships that could avoid the grips of the microborg b) look for other jobs once the deal…
Following on from my post this morning about IPOs being cancelled, it seems that The Joneses IPO was merely an effort to delay liquidation. So much for naive investors, this is a case of very naive business people –…
In another set back for the NZX (Given the difficulties in creating a stock exchange of value in New Zealand strange situation, I think NZX CEO Mark Weldon is worth his seven figure salary), two listings, or potential listings…
In somewhat unfortunate timing, ZDnet blogger Phil Waineright posted saying that SaaS vendors that don’t have an outsourced perspective of infrastructure are something of an anachronism. Phil quoted the following; many established SaaS application providers are applying much more…
I’m a Firefighter and a Paramedic in my spare time (you see it’s not all spent in front of a monitor). Over the 10 or so years that I’ve been an emergency service professional I’ve seen some pretty hair…
The New York Times went public with concerns around the fact that Facebook users were unable to delete their accounts. Within days Facebook responded, giving users a link to click to delete all their entries (rather than having to…
News this morning that a mega-merger between rival meat companies PPCS and Alliance is being talked about. I’ve said for awhile that Fonterra is an example of what good can come from mergers. Fonterra has created a dairy industry…
Note: This is a mirror post from my unreasonablemen blog. Over on Smoothspan, Bob asks the question “when do the SaaS acquisition games begin?”. This got me thinking, about the why, who, how and impact of acquisition on SaaS.…