The Big Ten Acquirers?

The Nation has an interesting profiling of the “Big Ten” media conglomerates who control nearly all media outlets in the world. The companion article is as alarmist as it should be, detailing the rise of media monopolies who have a “corrosive influence on journalism”. This is scary, and I am hoping that the voice of bloggers everywhere will lend a growing counter balance to the news hegemonies and general homogenization we are seeing. I just wanted to point out that, in addition to the old standbys we already know about (Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Amazon, and Ebay), these ten media congloms should be on every entrepreneurs radar as possible acquirers for their startups. They want to dominate the Internet too and they will pay dearly for a leg up.