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Aereo assets sell for measly $2 million in bankruptcy auction

article published on 27 February, 2015

Aereo, the now-defunct online TV service, saw its assets sell for just $2 million in bankruptcy auction. The company said it was expecting a low floor price of $4 million so the final results were less than encouraging. TiVo purchased the company's trademark, customer database and some other assets while RPX Corp (a patent risk-management co.) acquired the company's patents. IT consultant ... [ read the full article ]

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qazwiz
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_ 		27. February 2015 @ 06:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
all right.... why the hell did they bundle the properties? the patents for instance likely would have gone for more on an individual basis... especially if they were building blocks patents... one dependent on another which was dependent on a third. just like in the board game monopoly the final one will bid super high if all the others are owned by one person

likewise, physical assets that lesser investors might buy some of can be bundled to get the little bidders out of the way of the big boys... but all that does is reduce the per item price... oftem a deep pockets investor can buy a bundle and flip some or even all of it at a quick profit... sometimes even before they need to more the items
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