I’d say Seamus, Jason, Eoin, or Danny did the best explanations. How about a draw? $5.00 for each. Or, $20.00 for each. Mashable probably makes several thousand dollars in revenues (at least) per month. I’m sure they can afford it.  A quick footnote though, I believe Autonomy PLC, which is big into enterprise search, bought Verity Inc. last year for nearly half a billion dollars. Verity of course produces its UltraSeek search technology that it licenses to big universities, governments, and corporations. They bought UltraSeek from Disney, I believe, and InfoSeek (the consumer search counterpart) went to Inktomi, which later made an enterprise version to compete with Verity. Or, did Disney sell it all to Inktomi and then Inktomi sold UltraSeek to Verity and the consumer search platform to Yahoo!? I’m not sure anymore.  Blinkx was big into consumer desktop search, as well. Do they still do that and is that what their Pico product is? Is that still around?  Still, this reverse IPO (the merging of Blinkx Inc. with Autonomy PLC’s consumer search technology unit into Blinkx PLC and listing on an alternative investment market vis a vis Pink Sheets) has got to be a real let-down for Blinkx management and investors, who last year, were riding a wave of exuberance in the hope of a News Corp. buyout. By selling 90% of the company at once, that’s pretty much a cash out and see if you can sink or swim on your own mentality on the part of Autonomy. Plus, by going on the AIM, which is similar to the unregulated NEXX market in Canada which itself is part of TSX Group, it’ll be nearly impossible to attract institutional investors. All they will attract are “pump and dump” schemers. Expect a lot of “HOT STOCK TIP: Buy Blinkx PLC now!” spam in the near future.
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