Mar 25, 2010 4:24 PM
Ben Golub, the long-time CEO of Plaxo who oversaw the social networker’s sale to Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) two years ago, is leaving the company. Golub joined Plaxo in 2005 and says in a blog post that his “passion is in building new companies” and that he’s therefore leaving “to start…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Social Media, Community, Companies, Comcast, ben golub, plaxo
May 16, 2008 8:00 AM
If the recently salvaged Clear Channel (NYSE: CCU) buyout was the signature media deal of the 2006-2007 era, then the just-announced CBS (NYSE: CBS) acquisition of CNET (NSDQ: CNET) is the signature deal of 2008. And they couldn’t be more different. Clear Channel was among the last big deals of…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, CBS, CNET, Comcast, clear channel, plaxo
May 14, 2008 6:30 PM
Just got off the phone from a tandem interview with Plaxo CEO Ben Golub and Comcast Interactive Media‘s Sam Schwartz. They weren’t willing to talk money but answered just about everything else and talked at length about the vision of marrying set-tops and social software. Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) plans to…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Companies, Comcast, ben golub, plaxo, sam schwartz
May 14, 2008 5:33 PM
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has acquired social networker Plaxo. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed in a Plaxo blog post announcing the news, but both TechCrunch and Reuters put the price tag in the $175 million range, but these numbers may be too high (see update below). Rumors of Plaxo’s sale…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Companies, Comcast, plaxo
Jan 17, 2008 9:46 AM
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has decided to support for OpenID, the decentralized identity system that allows users to sign into multiple sites with a single identifier. Starting with a beta launch at the end of the month, Yahoo users will be able to sign onto OpenID-enabled sites in one of two…
Jan 3, 2008 10:51 AM
Updated below: Social networking service Plaxo is putting itself up for auction and hoping to fetch up to $100 million, reports NYT. The Mountain View-based company, which was once infamous for the prodigious volume of e-mails it sent out, has tried hard to shed its reputation as a spammer. Originally…
Posted In: Social Media, plaxo
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