Half a Billion for a Freebie
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Media consolidation remains the rage, and the financial news world firms up a bit today as MarketWatch (Nasdaq: MKTW) agreed to be acquired by Wall Street Journal publisher
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An industry giant is inspired to spend billions on its own shares.
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Amazon offers two-day shipping free -- for a fee.
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The FreeiPods.com website looks as phony as a $3 bill. In fact, it's at the forefront of performance-based marketing, as advertisers discover it's more effective to spend $50 million on gifts than to blow the cash on TV ads. By Leander Kahney.
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No, Facebook isn't a $15 billion company. Yes, Microsoft is smart.
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(Corrects dollar amount in first paragraph from $10 million to $40 million)
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p2pnet.net OT News:- The OneWorld Health drug company is now $42.6 better off, thanks to a grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation.
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It's not every day that the entire technical press goes bonkers over news in the open source world, but that's what happened last week, when Sun announced that it was buying MySQL.  Doubtless, the pleasant roundness of the sum involved - $1 billion â helped, as did the fact that most of that was cash.  But leaving aside the sense of satisfaction that events in the free software world should be suddenly thrust centre-stage, Sun's move does raise a larger question about the fate of all open source start-ups. read more
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An overview of The Motley Fool's Foolanthropy charity drive.
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The business development company makes a rare share repurchase.
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The latest craze in software: giving stuff away. BEA Systems, Computer Associates and IBM all recently started releasing the source code, or underlying instructions, for some programs, which amounts to distributing those products free. Even the loosest definition of incentive rebates would probably stop short of 100% discounts, but then the economics of software are peculiar (see story, p. 161). The giveaways were celebrated, especially by the noisy "open-source" movement, which wants all software distributed this way. (They're not kidding.)
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At Tetyana Ivanenko's shop it costs abut $2 ( 1.10) a bottle. Half a million bottles have already rolled off the production line.
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A rundown of funds selling at a discount to the cover price.
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That's what happens when free money makes everyone pay too much.
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Commission an original composition for $2,000, or even $5. Some music lovers have even formed investment clubs to raise funds for new works.
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Playing catch-up? Late starters can still make a million.
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Annual access to Linux seller's software library went from the $20-to-$50 range to free in order to improve the company's popularity.