Search Engine Marketing Blog | Tug » AOL http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog Search Engine Marketing Blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:00:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 AOL to Sell Bebo for $10 Million http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/2010/06/17/aol-to-sell-bebo-for-10-million/ http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/2010/06/17/aol-to-sell-bebo-for-10-million/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:04:01 +0000 David http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/?p=1212 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> TechCrunch have reported that AOL are to Sell Bebo for around $10 million to an investor group. That’s a massive drop from the $850 million that AOL first forked out for the social networking website back in 2008. See below for a quote from TechCrunch:

“AOL is close to selling Bebo to an investor group, we’ve confirmed from a source close to the company. The price? $10 million or less. Rumors of the acquisition first surfaced this morning, and the buyer may be Criterion Capital Partners.

That’s just a bit less than the $850 million AOL paid for the social network in 2008. And as decimated as Bebo is, it’s almost certainly worth more than $10 million.

But the deal will also give AOL the ability to write off the full purchase price of Bebo for tax purposes…”

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]]> http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/2010/06/17/aol-to-sell-bebo-for-10-million/feed/ 0 The end of Bebo? http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/2010/04/07/the-end-of-bebo/ http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/2010/04/07/the-end-of-bebo/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:04:28 +0000 Faye http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/?p=922 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> We heard today that AOL plans to either sell or shut down the social networking site Bebo.  You may remember that AOL reportedly bought the site 2 years ago for £417m, but analysts predict a selling price, if that’s what AOL do, of significantly lower than this.

Despite having a decent user base in the UK, Bebo hasn’t managed to accumulate the desired number of users in the US.  According to figures from ComScore, Bebo has 5.1 million users in the US, which has dropped from 5.8 million this time last year.  Bebo has been massively overshadowed by Facebook with its 210 million US users.

Figures from Hitwise show the pretty clear cut story of growth (for Facebook) and decline (for Bebo and MySpace) in the UK.   A sad loss I’m sure, for those who use it.

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]]> http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/2010/04/07/the-end-of-bebo/feed/ 0 The BBC’s ‘Visual Graphic’ of the Top 100 Sites http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/2010/03/12/the-bbcs-visual-graphic-of-the-top-100-sites/ http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/2010/03/12/the-bbcs-visual-graphic-of-the-top-100-sites/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:38:30 +0000 Ollie http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/?p=817
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    • Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     As part of their ‘Superpower’ season, the BBC have created an ‘Interactive Graphic’ showing the internet’s top 100 websites in terms of monthly traffic, as measured by Nielson.

    The data has been segemented by industry, and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia.

    To view this extremely useful and interesting graphic click here

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    ]]>     http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/2010/03/12/the-bbcs-visual-graphic-of-the-top-100-sites/feed/ 0     Google Sells AOL Stock http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/2009/07/28/google-sells-aol-stock/ http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/2009/07/28/google-sells-aol-stock/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:37:50 +0000 David http://www.tugsearch.co.uk/blog/2009/07/28/google-sells-aol-stock/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> AOL LogoSearch Engine Land have reported that Google have sold its 5% stake in AOL back to AOL itself for $283 million. The original purchase by Google was for $1 billion, which shows a large drop in AOL’s value. See below for a quote from Search Engine Land:

    “In anticipation of a spin off/IPO for AOL, TimeWarner bought back Google’s 5 percent interest in the company for $283 million dollars. Google originally purchased the equity stake in AOL in 2005 to preserve its search relationship with its largest partner and fend of Microsoft, which was seeking a potential deal with or acquisition of AOL.

    The original Google investment was $1 billion, which valued the TimeWarner AOL unit at $20 billion. The current valuation of AOL, based on the share buy back, would be roughly $5.6 billion….”

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