Andy Abramson |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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According to my sources the first choice of which IM client for XOBNI to integrate with was Skype hands down as Skype was far and away the most used Instant Messaging platform that the XOBNI users are on. Unfortunately with no Mac version in sight, I can only drool over [...]
PaidContent.org |
November 10th, 2008 |
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A strange launch at a strange time, and comes from a strange source: AT&T; (NYSE: T) rolled out a beta version of VideoCrawler, an online video search and aggregation engine. The public beta comes about three months after an even softer launch designed to help the company work out VideoCrawler's [...]
Gene Simmons' No Good TV (NGTV), which has had money problems in the past, has a new financial backer in reality-TV powerhouse Mark Burnett Productions. Variety reports that Burnett has taken an equity stake in NGTV and will help port some of its Web series to TV. Burnett is no [...]
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) managed to keep its net income from slipping much during Q3 but, with revenue "essentially flat" and a $100-125 million charge for Time Inc. layoffs on the way, followed other media companies by trimming its 2008 outlook today. Between New Line, Time Inc and some other [...]
-- Southern Progress Corporation: Tom Angelillo has retired from the company, after 14 years as its CEO, SPC tells us. He began his 33-year tenure at Oxmoor house books, eventually becoming president. Angelillo added a direct-selling operation and digital ventures, including MyRecipes.com and MyHomeIdeas.com. He also oversaw the launches of [...]
Update: See Yahoo's official announcement on Moore's departure and Jeff Dossett joining the company. This had been cueing up for a few months now: Yahoo's media group head Scott Moore and head of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) News Alan Warms will be leaving, according to a report by Kara Swisher. The [...]
—AOL's "Morning Rush" : AOL (NYSE: TWX) is slated to launch a new five-minute video show called "Morning Rush," which pulls highlights from five TV morning shows (including "Good Morning America" and "The Today Show"), Mediapost reports. "Morning Rush" will appear on AOL Living, where users will be able to [...]
As the portal business Rubiks cube goes through another turn, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and AOL (NYSE: TWX) are now doing due diligence on each other's finances in what could be a prelude to a much-mooted tie-up between the pair, Reuters claims. The wire did not disclose its "person familiar with [...]
Even as the economy turns down, one panelist on our EconSports deals panel, Providence Equity Partners adviser Jim Bankoff, used the stage to confirm a seven-figure VC round for Sports Blogs Nation. Just the last dying gasp of a VC boom? Not at all, our panelists argued… "There's still opportunity," [...]
Norman Pearlstine, chief content officer of Bloomberg, addressed the company's intentions to make acquisitions head-on, by saying they are looking, but likely won't buy anything large enough to grab headlines—something he's OK with given his past experience of trying to integrate AOL into Time Warner (NYSE: TWX). Since joining Bloomberg [...]
Rex Hammock |
October 28th, 2008 |
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At the Future of Business Media Conference, former executive editor of the Wall Street Journal, and then, editor-in-chief of Time, Norm Pearlstine - now "chief content officer" of Bloomberg - is being interviewed by Lauren Rich Fine. The following are my rough notes, not quotes. Fine: Bulk of Bloomberg's revenue [...]
The media portion of Bloomberg's business is tiny and as Dan Doctoroff, the company's president, tells BusinessWeek's Jon Fine in a typically reticent fashion, the TV operation is "not what it should be." And while he adds that "We have the pieces...to create something new and different," he's certainly not [...]
Time Warner's AOL (NYSE: TWX) is pulling the plug on yourminis customizable start-pages, less than a year after buying Goowy, the San Diego-based startup that creates them. The Flash-heavy, widget-populated pages helped yourminis stand out from a slew of other start-page creators, but the company is shuttering the service to [...]
When the economy really started heading downhill last year, the thinking was that the migration of ad budgets from traditional to digital would accelerate. Now, with pessimism settling in after another turbulent week in the financial markets, the doomsayers are turning to online. AdAge looks at the prospects of online [...]
GigaOM |
October 16th, 2008 |
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It’s here: the Google Phone. After years of speculation and months of waiting, the first Google Android OS-based smart phone has finally been released by T-Mobile USA. The device formally called as G-1 is made by HTC has started to ship and will be made available to those who have [...]
Here are some more numbers to confirm what you already know: At least through Q3, the deal market is getting ugly. The latest numbers from Jordan Edmiston Group pegs total M&A; volume through the end of September at $26.6 billion, a nearly 70 percent decline from $87.5 billion a year [...]
As it indicated in a leaked memo back in July, AOL (NYSE: TWX) announced (via Wired) the closing of its community blogs, Hometown and Journal. The two will disappear completely by the end of the month. The reasoning behind the shuttering of Journal and Hometown was due to AOL's need [...]
Just in time for the financial market's wild ups and downs this week, Bloomberg Television is making a tentative step toward syndicating its videos outside of its own website in a deal with AOL (NYSE: TWX). The business news network will run about 20 videos a day on the AOL [...]
PaidContent.org |
September 29th, 2008 |
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In keeping with AOL's (NYSE: TWX) blog-a-week rollout that it's been doing for the past year to revamp its portal site, the Time Warner company is looking back to its Digital City brand. The site used to resemble IAC's (NSDQ: IACI) CitySearch network, but Digital City's new incarnation is more [...]
All Facebook |
September 29th, 2008 |
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According to the LA Times this morning, Facebook has Ted Ullyot as its general counsel. Ullyot has a jam packed resume including "serving as a White House lawyer who helped coordinate the response to the investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity and serving as chief of [...]
PaidContent.org |
September 27th, 2008 |
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How did the BestBuy-Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) deal come about? Well, after UBS contacted about 80 players over the years (it became a running joke about who was looking at Napster any given week) and had given up, talks started with Best Buy early this year, according to a detailed SEC [...]
