Tuesday, October 10, 2006

The Acquisition Price Guide

Trying to put the recent Google/ YouTube deal in perspective, Tristan Louis put together a great overview on tech acquistions of the last few years (I added a couple myself):

Company	Acquired by	Price
Skype	Ebay	$2.6 billion
YouTube	Google	$1.65 billion
5% investment in AOL	Google	$1 billion
MySpace	News Corp	$580 million
dMarc Broadcasting	Google	$102 million
Grouper	Sony	$65 million
Flickr	Yahoo	$30-35 million (rumored)
del.icio.us	Yahoo	$30-35 million (rumored)
Bloglines	IAC (Ask)	$25 million (rumored)
Weblogs Inc.	AOL	$25 million (rumored)
Blogger	Google	$20 million (rumored)
Oddpost	Yahoo	$20 million (rumored)
Jumpcut	Yahoo	$15 million (rumored)
LiveJournal	SixApart	$20 million (rumored)
Rojo	SixApart	$10 million (rumored)
Picasa	Google	Under $5 million (rumored)
MeasureMap	Google	Under $5 million (rumored)
2.6% ownership of Baidu	Google	$5 million
weblogs.com	Verisign	$2 million
Writely	Google	Around $2 million (rumored)
Dodgeball	Google	Around $1 million (rumored)
Upcoming.org	Yahoo	Around $1 million (rumored)
WebJay	Yahoo	Around $1 million (rumored)
Urchin	Google	$???
Keyhole	Google	$???
Deja News	Google	$???

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