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News archives for the week of December 19, 2005

December 20, 2005
A lot of new developments in store for Ask Jeeves in 2006
Among other improvements, Ask Jeeves wants to bolster its site by giving people suggestions on how to refine their queries. "What we really want to do is grow share," says Berkowitz, who has headed Ask Jeeves since 2001, in an interview. "A lot of stuff is going to be happening" in 2006. Indeed, a lot of stuff has happened already.

December 19, 2005
Time Warner’s market capitalization is approximately $84 billion
The original merger between Time Warner and AOL was worth approximately $163 billion (combined value of the companies at the time). This investment, if extrapolated, would value AOL at $20 billion today. At today’s market close, Time Warner’s market cap was approximately $84 billion, while Google’s was roughly $127 billion. This deal represents something of an easier “integration” than a joint venture with Microsoft would have been. Here’s what the Wall Street Journal (sub req’’d) said earlier today about the terms and implications of the deal: The deal would help Google sell more of the display ads that run on some of the Web sites affiliated with Google.

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