Stripe revenue and growth statistics
Important stats about Stripe. Includes key statistics on country-by-country availability, valuation, investments and more.
Topic: Business valuation
Discord user and funding statistics: How many people use Discord?
Interesting Discord user stats. Includes data on users, funding, employees and more.
The billion-dollar one-person SEO agency: Fiction or the future?
A look into the potential for streamlined operations, increased productivity and billion-dollar valuations of AI-powered SEO agencies.
Conductor purchase price revealed: $126+ million [updated]
The acquisition price was more than 2X invested, but probably less than what investors may have wanted.
As Buyers Circle Yahoo, Will It Be Carved Up?
Now that it’s for sale, there are several reports indicating multiple buyers are interested in some or all of Yahoo. Among the names mentioned are Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm, Yahoo search partner and former suitor Microsoft, News Corp. and Jack Ma of China’s Alibaba, in which Yahoo owns a multi-billion dollar stake. […]
How Much Will Google Pay for Twitter?
There are three companies that we know are interested in or “hungry” for Twitter: Microsoft, Google and Facebook. In an article on bubbly valuations, the Wall Street Journal says that Twitter is again in “low-level” acquisition talks: Executives at both Facebook Inc. and Google Inc., among other companies, have held low-level talks with those at […]
Google Would Be Crazy To Spend $5B For Groupon
Google is sitting on more than $30 billion in cash so maybe $5 billion isn’t so much in that context. But it seems crazy (capital C) to me for Google to pay that kind of premium for the company — making it by far the largest acquisition in Google’s long history of acquisitions — despite […]
And The Winner Is: Search’s Rich List + Most Valuable “Startups”
People love lists. Publishers love lists too because they sell copies of traditional print newspapers and magazines and, online, they generate lots of clicks and page views. For example, the HuffingtonPost has become a veritable archive of slideshows: “the 10 best places to live,” the “hottest beach bods of the summer” and so on. US […]
Report: Digg Wants To Sell For $300 Million (Or More)
It’s now basically public information that social news site Digg is shopping itself. VentureBeat cites a “reliable source” in saying the company has hired private investment firm Allen & Company to sell Digg. However, the site has apparently been on the block for many months (or longer). TechCrunch has a history of the sale rumors.
Facebook Raises $500 Million More
It appears that $240 million is not enough. Forbes is reporting that Facebook has raised an additional $500 million from two New York based hedge funds, each contributing $250 million at the same $15 billion valuation. That would mean Facebook has raised about $740 million in this round, giving up roughly 5 percent of the […]
Microsoft Makes $240 Million Investment In Facebook
The conference call is going on now. Here’s what the press release says: Facebook and Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft will take a $240 million equity stake in Facebook’s next round of financing at a $15 billion valuation, and the companies will expand their existing advertising partnership. Under the expanded strategic alliance, Microsoft will […]
Yahoo After Facebook Again?
By now the story of how Yahoo came close but then lost the chance to buy Facebook for $1 billion last year is a famous Silicon Valley tale. But is a sequel in the works? Kara Swisher over at All Things Digital says yes. Yahoo is seriously considering an investment in the company.