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Acquisitions: Microsoft shops for an e-commerce edge
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:10 pmSource:Valleywag
Could Google hit $2,000 a share? Henry Blodget thinks so, but I’m not so sure. That would value GOOG at $750 billion — roughly the same as Microsoft ($279 billion), General Electric ($431 billion), and News Corp. ($70 billion) added together. And that’s assuming that none of those companies grow at all — a highly unlikely proposition. Could Google be the first company worth a trillion dollars? Maybe, but I’m not placing any bets in the “first-to-a-trillion” Valleywag office pool. Remember how well predictions of a trillion-dollar market cap worked out for AOL Time Warner? (Photo by AP/Paul Sakuma)
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“Erick, where do you get these revelations from? IPO? Just because a still money losing pure content company gets a new CEO? Thanks for bringing this great analytical mind to bear on TechCrunch.” A commenter to new TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld on his post about an IPO for political blog network Huffington Post. [TechCrunch]
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Microsoft has bolstered its Internet commerce capabilities by purchasing Jellyfish, an innovative comparative shopping site, for an undisclosed sum. Jellyfish will remain a standalone entity, but Microsoft’s Web team has signaled they will be borrowing Jellyfish’s technology for use across the software giant’s websites. Why? Jellyfish introduces a compelling new twist to comparison shopping. Listed retailers only pay Jellyfish when purchases are made — the more they pay, the higher they rank. In turn, Jellyfish kicks back half of its commission to the buyer, effectively lowering the price. It’s an intriguing business model, taking a page from Google’s ad-ranking technology and applying it to e-commerce. Just one problem: Microsoft’s unfortunate track record of crushing the life out of small, innovative companies it acquires.
