Posted by Chris O'Brien on January 29th, 2009 at 11:23 am | Categorized as O'Brien, Strategy | Tagged as Accounting, Acquisitions, Google, Symantec
Now that earnings season is in full swing, we’re seeing some Silicon Valley companies post some whopping losses. To a degree, that’s to be expected when the economy sours.
But there’s more going on here. Companies are announcing big write-offs that are resulting in big-time losses. And while they might try to tell you these write-offs are no big deal, they’re wrong. They’re a very big deal.
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Posted by Chris O'Brien on November 20th, 2008 at 3:01 pm | Categorized as Strategy | Tagged as Acquisitions, amazon, eBay, Microsoft, Yahoo
Remember way back in the beginning of this year when Microsoft supposedly said it was willing to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion? (And that was before the company reportedly was willing to bump the offer up even more).
Well, not that I’m actually suggesting anyone do this, but…Thanks to the stock markets’ implosion, if you had enough spare change lying under your couch, you could now buy eBay AND Yahoo for less than that. Read the rest of this entry »
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