Some in and around the IP community have criticized the Microsoft (MSFT)/Nokia (NOK) transaction as anticompetitive. For example, David Balto, a former policy director of the Federal Trade Commission, wrote in the Huffington Post, “When competitors form a truce, consumers need to worry because often they find ways to make consumers pay more by cutting […]
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Will Facebook Grow Into Their Valuation?
Everyone knows the metrics by now, the end of Facebook’s first day of trading: Market Cap = 112.6 bln.; 107x last twelve months (LTM) earnings; 26x LTM revenue. That’s a whole lot of expectation to fulfill. How will Facebook grow into that valuation? What is discussed most frequently is the addition of a next generation […]