AOL-Bebo: $850M Deal Closes; AOL Combines Bebo, AIM, ICQ Into People Networks Headed By Shields
It’s official — AOL (NYSE: TWX) now owns Bebo, closing the $850 million acquisition roughly two months after making it public. The social m… Read more »
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Weekend Video: Michal Kreczmar, Publishing Director, Agora, Poland
A growing migrant population makes Poland an increasingly important factor in UK online publishing. But what are Polish publishers doing ove… Read more »
Industry Moves: Bebo Appoints First Irish Head Of Sales
Bebo has hired Philip Macartney, a sales exec with Dublin’s FM104 radio station, as head of sales in Ireland, one of its most popular territ… Read more »
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Bebo Serves ‘Over Billion Videos’ Each Month
Bebo business development VP Ziv Navoth told Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser the social network is getting “over a billion” video views every month.… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: C4 Catch Up; Gurgle Books; Cheapflights; Virgin Radio TV; ITV Social Support
By Dianne See Morrison
– Online Catch Up For Channel 4: Channel 4 has rolled out a free seven-day catch-up service on channel4.com, reports NMA.co.uk. The clic… Read more »
@ EconSM: Interview: Ron Grant, President, AOL: Bebo Will Return Us To Our Roots
AOL president Ron Grant, appearing on our EconSM panel, suggested new acquisition Bebo would be used to thread social features throughout AO… Read more »
@ EconSM: Interview: Ron Grant, President, AOL: Bebo Will Return Us To Our Roots
AOL president Ron Grant, appearing on our EconSM panel, suggested new acquisition of Bebo would be used to thread social features throughout… Read more »
@EconSM: AOL & Bebo; ‘The Final Leg Of The Stool’
By Joseph Weisenthal
AOL’s $850 million purchase of Bebo back in March was one of the big social media deals of the year. In a Q&A with ContentNext co-editor Sta… Read more »
@EconSM: AOL & Bebo; ‘The Final Leg Of The Stool’
By Joseph Weisenthal
AOL’s $850 million purchase of Bebo back in March was one of the big social media deals of the year. In a Q&A with ContentNext co-editor Sta… Read more »
Bebo Funds Sofia’s Diary Through Ads You Can Wear
Bebo financed KateModern through product placement ads with the likes of Proctor & Gamble and Orange. Now it’s struck a similar deal for its… Read more »
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Bebo’s Birch Tight-Lipped On AOL Deal; Talks Around Numbers
Though he no doubt took a healthy slice of that $850 million, Bebo’s English co-founder Michael Birch went to ground when AOL (NYSE: TWX) bo… Read more »
Fiver Channel Buys Sofia’s Diary – From Bebo Drama To TV
Now it gets interesting. Fiver (formerly the Five Life channel) has bought the TV broadcast rights to Bebo’s second online interactive drama… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: BBC Bandwidth Manifesto; Bebo Drama Figs; iTunes German TV
- BBC bandwidth dialogue: BBC future media and technology director Ashley Highfield has penned a manifesto urging industry collaboration in… Read more »
Last.fm Ramps Up On Widgets With Netlog, Sofia’s Diary
Multi-lingual pan-European social net upstart Netlog is making a song and dance today about letting its users add Last.fm’s radio widget to… Read more »
Bebo Founders Will Make About $600 Million
By Rafat Ali
Bebo founders and husband-wife team Michael and Xochi Birch will make about $600 million in the sale of the social networking site to AOL (N… Read more »
Bebo Founders Will Make About $600 Million
By Rafat Ali
Bebo founders and husband-wife team Michael and Xochi Birch will make about $600 million in the sale of the social networking site to AOL (N… Read more »
AOL-Bebo: What’s It Mean For Bebo’s Yahoo Deal?
As AOL (NYSE: TWX) takes control of Bebo, don’t overlook Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). The social network in September struck a deal with the portal… Read more »
@ Media Summit: AOL-Bebo: Mixing Social Media And Ad Nets – Oil And Vinegar, Or Oil And Water?
By David Kaplan
Attendees at the McGraw Hill Media Summit were still gathering details here and there about AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) $850 million purchase of socia… Read more »
Interview: Joanna Shields, President, Bebo: AOL Was First Suitor; ‘Attractive Bids’; Staffing Up
After a late night finalizing the announcement of today’s $850 million acquisition and a hectic morning, Bebo’s affable president Joanna Shi… Read more »
Updated: Bebo’s Revenue Numbers: Not So Big; AOL Paid 160 Times EBITDA: Report
By Rafat Ali
So we reported on the return the investors got, but not on Bebo’s actual revenue numbers. Kara digs in and reports on some of the real rev… Read more »
AOL’s Purchase Of Bebo Could Boost Its Mobile Aspirations
By Dianne See Morrison
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AOL-Bebo: Falco:
AOL (NYSE: TWX) and Bebo bosses hosted reporters and analysts on a conference call to explain the reasons for the $850 million acquisition.… Read more »
AOL-Bebo: Reaction From Wall St.
By Joseph Weisenthal
– Spencer Wang, Bear Stearns: Cash flow at Bebo is likely to be pretty light, so the buy will cause some dilution at AOL (NYSE: TWX), alt… Read more »
AOL-Bebo: Falco: ‘Gamechanging For AOL’; Shields: Didn’t Plan To Sell; Birches Out Of Picture
AOL (NYSE: TWX) and Bebo bosses hosted reporters and analysts on a conference call to explain the reasons for the $850 million acquisition.… Read more »
Bebo’s History In Links
By Joseph Weisenthal
For more information on Bebo, check out our archives:
– AOL Buying Bebo For $850 Million
– Rumourbusting: Bebo/Murdoch, Free Indie, WAY… Read more »
AOL-Bebo: Balderton VCs Reap $140 Million From Acquisition
VC firm Balderton Capital will reap about $140 million – nine times what it invested in Bebo less than two years ago – by selling its 15.7… Read more »
Bebo’s History In Links
By Joseph Weisenthal
For more information on Bebo, check out our archives:
– AOL Buying Bebo For $850 Million
– Rumourbusting: Bebo/Murdoch, Free Indie, WAYN… Read more »
AOL-Bebo: Balderton VCs Reap $140 Million From Acquisition
VC firm Balderton Capital will reap about $140 million – nine times what it invested in Bebo less than two years ago – by selling its 15.7… Read more »
AOL Buying Bebo For $850 Million
In a major and rather unexpected deal, AOL (NYSE: TWX) is buying social net Bebo for $850 million in cash. Rumors had swirled around Bebo… Read more »
ITV2 Joins Bebo’s Open Media; Part Of Syndication Strategy
Four months after it launched, ITV (LSE: ITV) is to put some of its shows on Bebo’s Open Media platform. In fact, only shows from its ITV2 c… Read more »
@ MidemNet: Bebo Killed KateModern Star As Viewer Response
When Bebo’s interactive video drama KateModern killed off its eponymous lead character at the start of its second season earlier this month,… Read more »
Rumourbusting: Bebo/Murdoch, Free Indie, WAYN/AOL
- Bebo/Murdoch: Up to its usual entertaining tricks, Valleywag points to Bebo employee Emma Carlsgaard’s profile update reporting Rupert Mur… Read more »
MP Questions BBC's Microsoft 'State Aid'; Beeb Plans Politics Site
Just when the BBC thought it had lanced the iPlayer platform neutrality boil, up steps a tech-savvy politician to pick away again. The House… Read more »
Bebo Opens Platform To All Comers; Widget Effort Starts Here
Bebo’s own version of Facebook Apps, its Bebo Platform, has now been opened to all developers. Announced in December, the platform had been… Read more »
Bebo, GCap Pick iTunes Store For Legal Music Downloads
There’s still life in the old dog yet. Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) biz dev guys have been busy bees – both Bebo and UK commercial radio leader GCap… Read more »
@ FutureMedia: MySpaceTV’s First UK Commission; Bebo Feels Boundaries
Two of the big social networks are doing their utmost to become commissioners of TV-like interactive drama series.
- MySpace: MySpace today… Read more »
LinkedIn Opens To Developers; So Does Friendster & Bebo
By Rafat Ali
Two “old school” social networks have opened up, and Bebo is announcing later today:
– LinkedIn: Borrowing a cue from Facebook and others,… Read more »
KateModern Repackaged For Virgin Atlantic In-Flight Entertainment
KateModern, Bebo’s London-based interactive video drama produced by LG15 and starring Ralph Little amongst others, is to get carried on Virg… Read more »
Sumo.tv Joins Bebo Open Media, Prepping More Social Net Distribution
It wasn’t in on the original announcement, but Sumo.tv, a web-based video-sharing platform that also has a 24/7 channel on Sky channel 144,… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: M:Metrics Informs Campaigns, Berners-Lee Speaks Out, ITV Communities
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- ITV Launching Communities: ITV (LSE: ITV) will launch a series… Read more »
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