Two Internet titans worth watching
Those who wrote off Halsey Minor, founder of CNET, may have done so prematurely given today’s news that Michael Birch has just bought back Bebo for just $1 million.
Two stories to keep beside you

Moaning Moron Michael
Delusional deranged ‘entertainer’ Michael Barrymore yet again shamefully cracks an inappropriate joke about death Sadly, Michael Barrymore is alive, but it seems he’s not so well. Unlike poor Stuart Lubbock, who was found dead in very strange circumstances in his swimming pool (after which said ‘entertainer’ ran away before an ambulance had even arrived […]

Blackening the royals
Conrad Black persuades Princess Michael to dish the dirt on the royals on Canadian television You can’t keep the old felon down: Whilst interviewing Princess Michael of Kent, Conrad Black persuaded her to make a series of extraordinary remarks about her relatives. That she fell into such a trap could be said to be […]


Minor, who filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in May, sold one of the first Internet companies to achieve profitability in 2008 for $1.7 billion. In the same year, Birch sold the social networking site Bebo for $850 million.
We have it on reliable authority that Halsey Minor is launching a new Internet venture shortly. The intelligent amongst you will indeed watch this space.
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