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May 21, 2007

Smoking Out Suitors for Dow Jones

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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted in a discussion of News Corp’s bid for Dow Jones by Steve Rosenbush for Business Week. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch has a reputation as one of the corporate world’s savviest dealmakers, thanks in part to his $580 million acquisition of Internet powerhouse MySpace. Now Murdoch is back, with a bigger and possibly even bolder proposal: a $5 billion offer for Dow Jones, publisher of a blue chip business news empire that includes The Wall Street Journal. Murdoch offered an eye–popping 65% premium for the company, which has been struggling, as have…

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Apr 24, 2007

Ganging Up on Google

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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted discussing Google’s relationship with federal regulation by Robert Hof for Business Week. A phalanx of foes –– from eBay to search rivals and Uncle Sam –– is lining up to keep the search giant in check The family of Joan Miro had a bone to pick with Google. The search giant used some of his images in its Web–site logo on Apr. 20 –– until Miro’s family very publicly complained Google was violating the Spanish artist’s copyrights. The logo came down and the flap is already dying down. But other Google combatants…

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Apr 23, 2007

Tech IPOs poised to make a comeback in New York

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Today our partner Michael (Max) Maxworthy was quoted in a discussion of the IPO market by Amanda Fung for Investment News. Dice Holdings Inc., which operates career– and job–oriented websites, including Dice.com and JobsintheMoney .com, plans to raise $100 million through an initial public offering. The six–year–old Manhattan company, which filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 4, has been owned by private–equity firms General Atlantic LLC of Greenwich, Conn., and Quadrangle Group LLC of New York since 2005. Though few technology firms in the New York area have had IPOs over the past two years, analysts say that more may…

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Apr 19, 2007

Newspapers still grappling with new media

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Market Watch Newspapers struggling to hold onto classified ad dollars need to take their cues from their competitors online, says newspaper analyst Ken Marlin of Marlin and Associates. “They can’t just take an ad and put it up on the web,” says Marlin. “Until they understand that, they will continue to see declining revenue.” Click Here to listen.

Apr 14, 2007

Google spends oodles again

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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted in a discussion of Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick by Alex Pham for The Los Angeles Times. The Internet behemoth agrees to pay $3.1 billion for ad firm DoubleClick –– and once more uses its financial strength to head off rivals Google Inc. appears to be creating its own Internet bubble. The online juggernaut on Friday said it reached an agreement to acquire DoubleClick Inc., a New York–based Web advertising company, for $3.1 billion in cash. If approved by federal regulators, the deal would be the largest in 9–year–old Google’s history, and the…

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