The Wall Street Journal reported today on a story that Microsoft could buy into FaceBook at a $10bn valuation. When I wrote about my justification on why Facebook was worth $10bn a month ago, I had a lot of skeptics who thought that I was smoking some really good stuff. In fact, I saw quite [...]

Last month, I made the “way out” prediction that Facebook would be sold for $10bn, probably to Microsoft. A couple of my readers asked for justification, and I basically gave the “this is war” approach – since then, I’ve given it further thought. In this post, I will attempt to give a business perspective (as [...]

When Facebook announced their API Platform, and told developers to keep any revenue earned from it, I’m pretty sure they didn’t consult with MSN, specifically relating to their MSN AdCenter deal. Developers are trying to monetize their apps by running Google Ads within them and earning revenues, which effectively means that Google is providing advertising [...]

Did you know that you can now send emails to people from within Facebook?! Pretty cool, I thought…then I did some testing. If you send an email to someone who already is a Facebook user, even if you type the email address in, they receive the mail in their Facebook inbox. If they’re not a [...]

South Africa’s Mail & Guardian are launching a new website, called Thought Leader which will become a platform for conversation, driven by local (SA) leaders in business & media who will contribute regularly to the website. I think this is the first mention of it anywhere, and the official launch is actually only next week, [...]