Investor/blogger Ashkan Karbasfrooshan posts about his choices for the “Ten Best Internet Acquisitions Ever.” Here’s the list (in the post he provides his rationale):
#11 – Honorary Mention: Yahoo! acquires Yoyodyne in 1998 for $39 Million
#10 – aQuantive acquires Razorfish for $160M in June 2004
#9 – Microsoft acquires Hotmail for $400M in 1998
#8 – Ask Jeeves acquires Interactive Search Holdings for $343M in March 2004
#7 – eBay acquires Paypal for $1.5B in 2002
#6 – AOL Time Warner acquires Advertising.com for $435M in June 2004
#5 – Yahoo! acquires Inktomi for $235M in December, 2002
#4 – Yahoo! acquires Overture for $1.63B in July, 2003
#3 – Google acquires Sprinks in October 2003
#2 – New York Times acquires About.com for $410M in February, 2005
#1 – News Corporation acquires MySpace-parent Intermix for $580M in May 2005
Do you agree?
Screenwerk 
November 28, 2006 at 3:40 am
I kind of like Scripps acquisition of Shopzilla.
November 29, 2006 at 6:12 am
while there is no doubt the above mentioned acquisitions were indeed smart moves, I am missing the acquisitions of overture by Yahoo! and applied-semantics by Google as this were eventually the largest revenue makers for both, providing them with the PPC technology and becoming the real internet cash-cow
What do you think about this ?