Archive for Tag: Quoted

Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted in a discussion of YouTube by Catherine Holahan for Business Week. The online video star has found a rich parent, but can it ensure that it won’t leave Google vulnerable to copyright lawsuits? YouTube is swiftly adopting Google’s informal corporate motto on not doing evil. Google has a lot riding on it—$1.65 billion in stock, to be exact. That’s how much the Web search giant is forking over to buy You Tube, the popular online video and social networking service that in just a year and a half has become one of…

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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted in a discussion of YouTube by Steve Rosenbush for Business Week. The search titan’s deal to acquire YouTube will be watched carefully by other online video players. Here’s what each should be worried about Google’s deal to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion gives the Internet search and advertising leader a dominant position in the nascent market for Internet video. If the deal closes—and turns out to be a success—it could put intense pressure on Google’s (GOOG ) rivals in the media and Internet sectors. YouTube generates 100 million video streams a day,…

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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted in a discussion of the Private Equity market by Steve Rosenbush for Business Week. Firms swimming in cash will likely stay strong. But a slowdown could help prevent the development of a bubble The latest boom in private equity is more proof, should anyone need it, that the rich keep getting richer. Global mergers and acquisitions by financial sponsors, or private buyout groups, hit $570 billion during the first nine months of the year, up 51% from the prior record set during the first nine months of 2005, according to market researcher…

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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted in a discussion of MySpace’s entry into the Chinese market by Olga Kharif for Business Week. The News Corp. mogul’s wife is said to be smoothing the way for MySpace’s entry into China’s potentially enormous market Wendi Deng, who’s married to News Corp. (NWS ) Chairman Rupert Murdoch, is up to some high–level international diplomacy. At least that’s what Murdoch told attendees of a Goldman Sachs (GS ) conference on Sept. 20, according to press accounts of the remarks. Deng was in China negotiating a joint venture that would allow News Corp.’s…

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