Nicky Nylon- N.Y. is Killing Me
dc: thanks for the submission, whoisnickynylon!
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Great graph from Mary Meeker’s latest slide deck on web trends. Still lots of room for growth in the mobile web!
M&A Activity Breakdown In Media & Tech
This is actually pretty old news from the beginning of the year (2011) but I just came across it and found it interesting enough to post. The biggest category of M&A went to database and information services. This should come as no surprise with the big data movement and the increasing demand for data storage with more and more of people’s lives getting filed away in the cloud. Conversely, exhibitions and conferences pulls in the rear, also unsurprisingly. My assumption here would be that with the ease to do business and share ideas digitally, the need to spend money on travel and expenses to attend conferences has decreased significantly. The full category list with total transactions and cumulative dollars is below. Tweet me with predictions for predictions for the end of this year (which should be easy since we’re close to the end…)
2010 Media, Information, Marketing Services & Related Technology M&A Activity
- B2B Online Media & Technology: 59 deals worth $2.5 billion
- B2C Online Media & Technology: 230 deals worth $8.5 billion
- Business-to-Business Media: 37 deals worth $534 million
- Consumer Magazines: 26 deals worth $214
- Database & Information Services: 70 deals worth $12.3 billion
- Education Information, Technology & Training: 59 deals worth $4.9 billion
- Exhibitions & Conferences: 23 deals worth $129 million
- Marketing & Interactive Services: 254 deals worth $11.3 billion
- Mobile Media/Technology: 77 deals worth $1.4 billion
- Newspaper Publishing: 10 deals worth $1.4 billion
Street artist Swoon just opened a new exhibit at the ICA in Boston which looks amazing. I plan on checking this out soon.
I Just Got Sonned
I just got sonned by my coworkers who asked what rock I was under after I admitted that I’d just heard about Foster The People. Whatever. I can’t know all the world’s information. Anyway, enjoy.
Mark Zuckerberg on Google+
I just saw this image over on Jason Calacanis’ blog where he writes “he doesn’t look happy (or worried).” I’d agree he doesn’t exhibit either of those emotions. He looks like he’s trying to kill Google simply with an intense death stare!
I shouldn’t laugh at this, but I can’t resist. Facebook’s targeting seems to have worked on me.
I used to be really into hip hop. It’s not that I don’t like it anymore, I just that I don’t virtually eat it for breakfast like I used to. Jay-Z is one of my favorite MCs of all time and his first album Reasonable Doubt is one of my favorite albums of all time. I just saw the video for the song for the first time today though. Can you find the Biggie cameo?
Jay Z-Dead Presidents (by draztik)
