Category Archives: Prediction

Groupon IPO Tanking Ahead – Will Google or Facebook Save Groupon First?

PREDICTION: Google or Facebook buy Groupon post-IPO at a significant discount on its current ridiculous $1 billion valuation.

The set up:

I signed up to Groupon last year and stupidly gave them my main email address for what was quite a nice offer.  Half price dinner for two at a local restaurant.  After that, I opened a few of the offer emails they sent me every few days.  Some were of interest, but mostly were just noise.

Over time this just got worse. Continue reading →

Facebook Movies will be live within 12 months

I predict we’ll see Facebook Movies by early 2012 to compete directly with YouTube Movies.

Here’s why:

Facebooks main competitor, Google, is moving into the on-demand-movie space with its YouTube Movies service.  It’s a hot market right now.  But Google has always lacked the deep social network advantage Facebook has at its disposal. Continue reading →