Excite@Home: Bankrupt, AT&T: Insane
from the weird-deals dept
Okay, so we knew that Excite@Home was going to declare bankruptcy, and it was pretty much assured that AT&T was going to jump in buy up the cable modem business assets. None of that was a surprise. But, paying $307 million for just some of the assets of a company that has a valuation of around $60 million? That's a surprise. Of course, this is probably to sweeten the deal with Comcast to buy all of AT&T Broadband's assets. If they're getting $40 billion for AT&T Broadband, I guess $300 million doesn't seem like too much. Anyway, in a mostly unrelated story, I just discovered that Techdirt was a "cool site of the day" at Webshots today (though, they don't actually mention us by name, and just have a link to "News" that goes to Techdirt). Webshots is owned by Excite, so Techdirt might be one of their last ever cool sites of the day...
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LOUSY english, unfinished sentences, garble no one
your comment above is filled with lousy english, unfinishe sentences, and worse of all no one can understand what in 'carnation you are saying. ship up! And obviously its time to stop working and go to bed. you are burned, dude.
-Clous
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61 vs 300
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