"I WAS at Bin 38 and all I got was this lousy valuation", read the message on Dave McClure's T-shirt at a conference in San Francisco this week.
Here are some extracts from a Reuters piece: Facebook Inc's stunning $19 billion bid for fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp sent shares of BlackBerry Ltd surging after the closing bell on Wednesday, as investors were cheered by the lofty valuation for the messaging platform.
You might be hearing talk of depressed valuations, but that message certainly isn't reaching commercial real estate owners in the Bay Area.
Facebook has shown a keen interest in developing or, with its $173 billion valuation, outright buying mobile messaging apps.
With McAfee protocol operators' strategy that maximizes own benefit is to send real, that is, "honest," valuations in auction messages.
Even as a well-intentioned attempt to combat racial disparities, such practices can send a dangerous message about the valuation of human life.
There are two main schools of thought, neither of which suggests that his offer should be viewed as sending a message about the valuations of other newspaper publishers, though their shares mostly jumped at the news of his bid for Dow.The first school sees the bid as the latest evidence that Mr Murdoch is one of the few old-media bosses who "gets" new media.
12. Kik raised $50 million from China's Tencent (who also backs WeChat), boosting the messaging app's valuation into unicorn territory.
While Snapchat Stories may be the feature that brings the company the revenue model it needs to validate its $16 billion valuation, and while the ephemeral messaging feature may be what initially attracted the hordes of millennials sending digital ephemera to each other billions of times a day, Spiegel says that the camera itself remains Snapchat's unifying feature.
Much the same message emerges from another valuation method, which, rather like the price-to-dividends ratio for equities, measures the relationship of house prices to rents.Yet such yardsticks are not the final word.
