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More on the Apocalypse, aka Start-Up Acquisition Fever

Posted on Friday, October 19, 2007 by No comments yet

A couple interesting  pieces  this week about the booming  dot.com investment arena…

First, Robert A. Guth at the Wall Street Journal Online reports that Steve Balmer predicts that he (aka Microsoft) will buy about 20 start-ups per year for five years for between $50M and $1B each.

And before that, Brad Stone and Matt Richtel wrote in the New York Times about a growing dot.com investment swell that may become bubble 2.0.

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