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What Could YouTube Be Worth?
An anonymous reader writes "C|Net has a story about the possible cost of YouTube. Sony just paid $65 Million for small-time videosharing outfit 'Grouper'. That site has around 1% of the videosharing market. The article asks, at that price, what might YouTube's 43% be worth?" From the article: "Entertainment analysts have predicted in recent weeks that sites with large followings would command a high price. The Sony deal proved them right. But while the Grouper deal helped establish a benchmark, there is still plenty of confusion about the fair value of online video companies. This is because the typical metrics for measuring a company appear to have gone out the window--just like they did during the bubble years of the late 1990s."
From stock@stokkie.net Mon Aug 14 22:46:00 2006 +0200
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:46:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Robert M. Stockmann"
To: list
Subject: 911 Economics
Hi,
According to Dave Emory, the Muslim brotherhood is propagating a economic agenda which closely fits the Bush regime. Do the Bush and USA bashers inside the middle east know that themselves also?
July 18, 2006: FTR # 560: Economic 9/11
http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/DX/dx060718.m p3
There seems to be a entire economic system installed throughout the middle east, where the fundamentalist Muslim stooges of the Muslim Brotherhood are put in power and apparently easily adopt the laissez-faire tradition of Western economics.
Unbelievable how bended this sounds. How bended?
Well Dave Emory, the instituted propaganda radio broadcaster starts reading, without showing any reservations or hesitations, a Newsweek article on this, like it was a Goebels lecture. Using the same methods and principles he apparently tries to fight :
"Islam in Office"
By Stephen Glain, Newsweek International, July 3-10, 2006 issue
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13529579/site/newsweek/
"July 3-10, 2006 issue - Judeo-Christian scripture offers little economic instruction. The Book of Deuteronomy, for example, is loaded with edicts on how the faithful should pray, eat, bequeath, keep the holy festivals and treat slaves and spouses, but it is silent on trade and commerce. In Matthew, when Christ admonishes his followers to "give to the emperor the things that are the emperor's," he is effectively conceding fiscal and monetary authority to pagan Rome.
Islam is different. The prophet Muhammad himself a trader-preached merchant honor, the only regulation that the border-less Levantine market knew. In Muslim liturgy, the deals cut in the souk become a metaphor for the contract between God and the faithful. And the business model Muhammad prescribed, according to Muslim scholars and economists, is very much in the laissez-faire tradition later embraced by the West. Prices were to be set by God alone anticipating by more than a millennium Adam Smith's reference to the "invisible hand" of market-based pricing. Merchants were not to cut deals outside the souk, an early attempt to thwart insider trading."
Bill Gates must be delighted to hear about such juicy business deals laying ahead for him in the future. Bill Gates? Don't you know Bill Gates owns newsweek? :
[jackson:stock]:(~)$ nslookup www.newsweek.com
Server: 10.0.18.71
Address: 10.0.18.71#53
Non-authoritative answer:
www.newsweek.com canonical name = newsweek.com.
Name: newsweek.com
Address: 207.46.245.32
Name: newsweek.com
Address: 207.46.245.33
Name: newsweek.com
Address: 207.46.150.50
Name: newsweek.com
Address: 207.46.150.51
[jackson:stock]:(~)$
[jackson:stock]:(~)$ whois 207.46.245.32
OrgName: Microsoft Corp
OrgID: MSFT
Address: One Microsoft Way
City: Redmond
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98052
Country: US
NetRange: 207.46.0.0 - 207.46.255.255
CIDR: 207.46.0.0/16
NetName: MICROSOFT-GLOBAL-NET
NetHandle: NET-207-46-0-0-1
Parent: NET-207-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: NS1.MSFT.NET
NameServer: NS5.MSFT.NET
NameServer: NS2.MSFT.NET
NameServer: NS3.MSFT.NET
NameServer: NS4.MSFT.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 1997-03-31
Updated: 2004-12-09
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