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By: charles

charles — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:12:51 +0000

It was also rumored that Jana Partners, Google and Yahoo wants to buy CNET before CBS came in. And you are right, it might be a good acquisition. This site was part of the acquisition right? And hope alot of improvement will be observed.

Thanks
Charles
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CBS to buy CNET for $1.8 billion | — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:18:24 +0000

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By: James

James — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:41:32 +0000

Buying a broken brand at 45% premium is somewhat dodgy. CBS would be foolish not to steal that domain away from C|Net’s tech news site and use it for CBS News instead.

http://www.gofrostfire.com

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By: T R

T R — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:26:22 +0000

Om-

Do you think this will make one of the other large media companies like Disney/ABC or NBC Universal suddenly interested in buying Yahoo?

Despite the AOL-Time Warner disaster, I see one of those companies being a better fit for Yahoo than Microsoft.

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By: ancestraltraveler

ancestraltraveler — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:45:15 +0000

While CBS has acquired some valuable Internet real estate (News.com, Radio.com, Search.com to name a few)for Quincy Smith to develop, they will not have control of The Whole Damn Net.com Not for the time being. Sorry CBS, but as much as I know you’d love to lay claim and lord over The Whole Damn Net through CBS Interactive, Mark Cuban currently has the inside track to claim it.

By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:36:32 +0000

On paper, I love this deal for the reasons that you assert. This is a broken brand with a bruised culture but good and varied media properties. It needs a new heart but not necessarily a new brain.

As is the challenge in deals like this, it is all about integration and figuring out what the hell synergy means relative to CBS’ digital media/broadcast media universe.

I like what I have seen of CBS’ approach between baby steps in bleeding edge and bigger steps like this. What I have less of a sense of is CBS’ uber vision and how they plan to orchestrate in a more than the sum of the parts fashion.

Cheers,

Mark

By: Scott K

Scott K — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:08:30 +0000

Interesting and slightly off-topic thought:

CBS will now own the domain “news.com”. CBS would be foolish not to steal that domain away from C|Net’s tech news site and use it for CBS News instead.

C|Net also owns tons of other very valuable domain names such as “search.com”. It’s a shame they never did much with them.