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Internet Bubble 2.0?

The past six months have seen a flurry of M&A activity within the Internet sphere not seen since the bubble days, and most of the companies being bought lack established revenue models, a la 1999. Many of those being acquired these days are blogs, Internet telephony companies and social networking sites, with some big companies like AOL, Google, Yahoo!, News Corp., Microsoft and eBay swooping in to pick up some relatively unknown quantities. Mark Glaser of the Online Journalism Review sits down to talk with investment banker Tolman Geffs and Jim Pitkow, vice president of VeriSign, about the Internet's Bubble 2.0.

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