Owen Thomas

Owen Thomas

@owenthomas

West Coast editor at Business Insider, chief gadfly at Ditherati. Passion advocate. Enthusiast supporter.

San Francisco · http://ditherati.com/

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For some reason, I'm more impressed that took out a Twitter ad than that it raised $2.6 billion.

If they want to buy Square at $5B, then surely buying it at $3.25B makes even more sense. It's a negotiation.

We'll correct immediately. The ICANN bit, that is. Can't do anything about your self-esteem issues. cc

Me to a PR guy on the phone: "You're rubbing your temples like in those tension-headache commercials right now, aren't you?"

A good theory. But it seems like the split came 6-9 months after the disposition of Joost.

A source tells us Skype cofounders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström are no longer speaking. But why?

Blame Groupon and Zynga for sucking money out of the private-equity pools Square hoped to tap. Still, $3.25B ain't bad…

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