{"id":6418,"date":"2008-02-06T20:10:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T20:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/bebo-to-be-bought.html"},"modified":"2008-02-06T20:10:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T20:10:20","slug":"bebo-to-be-bought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/bebo-to-be-bought.html","title":{"rendered":"Bebo To Be Bought?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is enough to make the average person sick. How does a company with a name like Yahoo! get a valuation in tens of billions of dollars. Sure, we all use Yahoo! so this is not such a stretch. But bebo? Worth north of a billion dollars? Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>I want to start a company called harpo or groucho. I am sure they will fetch a hefty sum in the future. I will set my price at $2 billion. I am also aware that these names are probably taken so I didn&#8217;t even bother to do a web search.<\/p>\n<p>So what are my sources for this &quot;rumored&quot; acquisition? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/02\/06\/rumor-is-google-about-to-buy-bebo-for-1-billion-to-15-billion-or-will-it-be-myspace\/\">TechCrunch <\/a>of course. The site says that either Google or MySpace is about to make a play for for the social media company and that the price could go to $1.5 billion!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/bebo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Here is the most amazing part. Quantcast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantcast.com\/search\/bebo\">says <\/a>bebo has 1.7 million average monthly unique visitors in the US. Alexa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/data\/details\/traffic_details\/bebo.com\">says <\/a>the site has 11% of its traffic from the US. This means the total # of worldwide visitors each month is possibly around 15.5 million. That comes out to about $65\/unique monthly visitor at a billion dollar valuation.<\/p>\n<p>An impressive valuation if you ask me. Also, I am not aware of the revenue this site generates so there could be more to it than meets the eye.<\/p>\n<p>If Google makes the purchase, one wonders if it will be in response to Microsoft\/Yahoo! and if this will be one of a string of rapid acquisitions Google will make to try to increase its user base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is enough to make the average person sick. How does a company with a name like Yahoo! get a valuation in tens of billions of dollars. Sure, we all use Yahoo! so this is not such a stretch. But bebo? Worth north of a billion dollars? Amazing. I want to start a company called<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,199,188,189,118,190,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}