buyouts

Mark Cuban bails from IceRocket

ndouglas · 04/13/06 10:42AM

He's not completely jumping ship, but the dot-com billionaire is selling his blog search engine, IceRocket, leaving his co-owner the CEO spot. Did Mark Cuban realize his property couldn't overthrow Technorati, the tiny giant of blog search?

Alloy buys Sconex for high school hegemony

ndouglas · 04/04/06 03:37PM

Another day, another social network site acquisition. This time, says a reader, it's run by at least one MIT kid who might get some schadenfreude if Facebook falls flat on its, um, face.

Vonage orders the Surf 'n' Turf

ndouglas · 03/31/06 12:51PM

Never order the Surf 'n' Turf. You want steak, or you want lobster. Order both — the priciest combo on the menu — and you're admitting you're a greedy jerk.

Larry Ellison: the Oren Ishi of software

ndouglas · 02/24/06 02:05PM

So Oracle bought Sleepycat. Congrats to the now very wealthy Bostic and Seltzer, but y'all do realize you've sold your heads to a guillotine salesman, right?