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We all read on TechCrunch about the huge Internet acquisitions that are seemingly made every week.  YouTube sold for over a billion dollars, Bebo sold for $850 million, etc.  While those big acquisitions get all the headlines, there’s a very active market in buying and selling smaller websites that doesn’t get nearly […]

Yesterday I reviewed the three best Internet acquisitions of last year. Today, an easier list to compile: the worst Internet acquisitions of 2007. Some of these acquisitions were too expensive, some were not a good strategic fit, and some were just plain dumb.
eBay acquires StumbleUpon for $45M. This is a case of […]

Now that a few months have passed since the start of the year, it’s time to look back and assess the best and worst acquisitions in the Internet space for 2007. Sure, you can say it’s way too early to make any definitive judgments about such recent deals, but I’m going to do it […]