Wondering which Web 2.0 company is going to cash out next? So are we, and so was Aidan Henry.
Aidan wrote up a list of the biggest Web 2.0 companies that got bought out over the past year, and a list of the biggest movers that are highly targeted leaders. Among them are market leaders like Digg, Technorati, Netvibes, SimplyHired, 37 Signals, LinkedIn, Ning, and SixApart.
So what will the next major aquisition be? Facebook said it's not interested, and 37 Signals has been trucking along building successful applications for some time now so it's hard to tell. But these companies hold a lot of interest for larger traditional media ventures like News Corp, or top technology companies like Yahoo and Google.
Given acquisition track records, companies that have been bought out by larger companies usually enjoy an increase in exposure, customer base, and all of the technology developments they can handle.....most of the time. With buyouts often come the unknown. Yahoo scored big with del.icio.us and has taken some time to redevelop the popular bookmarking site, but Dodgeball seemed to have sunk when Google took it over and neglected it.
So what's your bet? Who would you write in as the number one spot for the next major acquisition?
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7-24-2007 @ 2:06PM
Ryan Wagner said...
I think I'm gonna stick with what I've always said: Zoho. They do a lot of thing right and have a powerful suite of online applications. There is no doubt that some company will snatch them up.
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7-24-2007 @ 2:30PM
Todd said...
The "biggest" acquisition news of 2007/08 will be Google's purchase of the 700Mhz spectrum, then buying Spain's Fon ( http://www.fon.com ) a WiFi router company.
Having said that Technorati is ripe, and it's scary to think that Microsoft may buy them - and subsequently ruin the product.
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7-24-2007 @ 3:25PM
Josh said...
I think it's quite obvious it's going to be purrrnce.com
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7-24-2007 @ 9:53PM
BananaBoat said...
I think digg.com is probably going to be the next to get bought. It's an easy entry into the social news genre that del.ic.ious probably started, and it would make a good rival to del.ic.cious once bought out by a company like google or MSN.
Honestly if I had to put money on a web 2.0 startup making it big, I'd put it on Revision 3. One day someone is going to look at Revision 3, notice that they can churn out content so fast, and so cheap, and with such a fanbase, that they (media conglomerates) would be insane not to notice. Then again, who really knows anymore, right?
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7-25-2007 @ 1:52AM
Onewhoknows said...
There is a company called Modavox which has recently received newly allowed patents based on already issued patents in the Advertising and Streaming Media Delivery Technology area that is a prime candiate for being bought out.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070614/20070614005711.html?.v=1
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