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YouTube bought by Google

YouTube death

Price: US$1,650,000,000 - Date: October/November 2006

MySpace bought by News Corp

MySpace death

Price: US$580,000,000 - Date: July 2005

last.fmCBS buys last.fm


last.fm

Price: US$280,000,000 (GB£142,000,000) - Date: May 2007

Flickr bought by Yahoo!

Undisclosed

Price: Unknown - Date: March 2005

eBay stumbles upon StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon

Price: US$75,000,000 - Date: May 2007

del.icio.us bought by Yahoo!

Undisclosed

Price: Unknown: CNN reported it was likely to be between US$15,000,000 and US$20,000,000 - Date: December 2005

Yahoo! acquires MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog

Price: US$10,000,000 - Date: January 2007

The traditional media and the first wave of Internet start-ups are scared. Unfortunately, instead of hiring innovators they simply decide to buy innovator’s websites!


eBay acquires Skype

Skype

Price: At least US$2,600,000,000, which is more than 5 times the GDP of the Caribbean island of Grenada! - Date: September 2005

Web 2.0: bought by 1.0 and strangled down.