A Nice List To Be On (Google, Yahoo, Ebay.. Next Acquisitions)

Google, Yahoo, eBay.. Next Acquisitions

Here is another long in-depth article by me. I jumped in the web 2.0 bandwagon not very long ago. But I think I learned quite a lot of things.. I should thank Om Malik (GigaOM), Michael Arrington (Techcrunch) and Digg for this. Here are my findings; the winners and losers of web 2.0..

But before starting let me state the acquisition behaviors of big fish:

Google and Yahoo buy small, innovative startups. In some sense, they reward the creativity. The acquisitions are generally low priced.
MSN acquires small search startups; the prices vary
eBay makes big and very profitable (IMHO) acquisitions; examples are Paypal and Skype.
AOL is very hungry for social web applications.
I’d like to see Amazon and Apple also in this list, but I didn’t hear anything about their acquisitions.

On the list was Digg, Technorati, Facebook, Pandora, Wordpress and...

Amiglia
Social networking for families.. Very good implementation. May feed AOL’s hunger for social applications.