Erik Howard

More rumors today from TechCrunch about Google and Twitter.  Michael Arrington from TechCrunch goes on to say that Google and Twitter are in early talks of some type of partnership or an outright acquisition.

Last year Facebook was in talks to buy Twitter for over a half billion dollars. Twitters current valuation is around $250 million dollars. If such a deal would go through this would be the second time that Evan Williams has sold a company he co-founded to Google. He previously sold Blogger to Google.

Here’s hoping that the rumors are true. The fail whale is starting to appear a little too frequently for me.

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If you had an extra $29 billon dollars just sitting around in the bank, what would you do? I wouldn’t buy Pure Digtial that’s for sure. Cisco has now bought Pure Digital for $590 million dollars. Not a bad price at all for a 2 year old crapsumer video camera company.

Pure Digital  the popular Flip Video cameras. You can find them just about anywhere. Matter of fact, I actually own one of their cameras. It’s easy to use and the video is produces is ok. My 9 year old daughter takes the camera with her everywhere. She was the big hit on one of her field trips.

I’m all for stimulating the economy, but WTF Cisco? You just announced last week you are getting into the enterprise server market, then you turn around the following week and buy a consumer video camera company. What’s it going to be next week Chucky Cheese?

Besides the obvious choice of throwing networking options inside new models of the Flip camera, how can this acquisition help Cisco?  A more logical choice would have been to purchase GoGrid or another up and coming Cloud Computing company. Now that would make sense and you wouldn’t have had to spent $590 million dollars.

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