Companies Most Likely To Deploy Mobile Sites, Not Apps, Adobe Finds
Curious as to what company’s have planned for mobile over the next year, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) conducted a survey among retail, technology and… Read more »
Omniture Founder James Leaves Adobe
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Josh James, the founder and former CEO of Omniture, is leaving Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE) 11 months after Adobe purchased his company for $1… Read more »
Adobe Releases Flash Player 10.1 For Mobile
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Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) announced on Tuesday that it has released Flash Player 10.1 for mobile, which it promises will deliver a more consistent… Read more »
@ D8: Jobs: ‘We Didn’t Start Out To Have A War With Adobe’
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Steve Jobs insists he didn’t plan a war with Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) over Flash. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), he told interviews Kara Swisher and Walt Mos… Read more »
Liberty Media Profits, Revs Rise, Boosted By QVC
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In keeping with the general trend of cable companies getting through the recession largely unscathed, Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) posted sol… Read more »
Ex-Time Inc. Digital News Head Vivek Shah Joins TheStreet.com’s Board
Vivek Shah, who left Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) as digital head at news division of Time Inc. last November, has been named as an independent boa… Read more »
Why Some Media Companies Are Quietly Cheering The Apple-Adobe Tiff
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The Apple-Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) tussle is heating up to bizarre proportions, with Steve Jobs yesterday issuing a public defense for Apple’s ant… Read more »
Adobe Defends Itself Against Steve Jobs’ Attack On Flash
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs surprised Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) today by publishing a 1,671-word essay on his thoughts on why Apple does not… Read more »
Steve Jobs Defends Flash Ban, Calls Out Former BFF Adobe
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Whether you’re a customer or a critic, Steve Jobs wants you to know once and for all why he does not allow Flash, made by his very old and d… Read more »
Apple’s Jobs Responds To Developer Complaints About Third-Party iPhone Ban
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Apple’s iPhone OS4 announcement included a lot of potentially exciting developments — and one that left some app developers reeling. That l… Read more »
10-Q Watch: Adobe Admits Apple’s Anti-Flash Strategy Could Be Damaging
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In the “timing is everything” department, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) filed its 10-Q the day after Steve Jobs threw another batch of lightning bolts… Read more »
Liberty’s Malone Will Be Out As DirecTV Chairman; Maffei Leaving Board, Too
Over the past few years satellite distributor DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) serially has been under the control of two of the most powerful men in med… Read more »
Liberty Cuts Off ‘Strategic Transaction’ Talks With WorldSpace
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The end could be near for bankrupt satellite radio firm WorldSpace. The company put out a terse statement this afternoon saying that its “st… Read more »
TheStreet Lost $45.5 Million In ’09; But Ad Revs May Have Turned A Corner
Financial news site TheStreet.com may have finished the year with a loss of $45.5 million — compared with 2008′s $2.4 million profit — the… Read more »
Beet.tv Roundtable: Adobe, Brightcove – HTML5′s No Flash Beater, But We’ll Support It Anyway
On Monday morning, I helped Beet.tv executive producer Andy Plesser host his latest roundtable discussion on the future of online video, at… Read more »
Liberty Evaluating ‘Strategic Alternatives’ For Overture Films
Two months after hiring former HBO CEO Chris Albrecht to oversee Starz as part of an original programming push, Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA)… Read more »
Adobe Flash 10.1 Coming To Phones In First Half; 250 Million By 2012
Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) has reached a number of milestones to get its full Flash video player up and running on smartphones, including Android an… Read more »
Zynga Acquires Social Game Developer Serious Business
Zynga, the current social gaming behemoth, is using some of its money to do acquisitions: it has bought Serious Business, creators of social… Read more »
Zynga To Bring Its Games To Microsoft Properties
Zynga’s social games — which are already played by upwards of 230 million people each month — are about to get even more reach. The compan… Read more »
TheStreet.com CEO Daryl Otte Promises Renewed Focus After Kikucall Acquisition And Promotions Sale
At the start of TheStreet.com’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Daryl Otte finally acknowledged that the company bought mobile and interactive agency… Read more »
The iPhone Wrap: HBO; LinkedIn’s Upgrade; Panasonic’s Shaving Game
– Welcome to the iPhone, HBO: The premium cable network has launched an iPhone app that gives users show snippets and a program guide, but… Read more »
SEC Watch: Liberty Extends Maffei’s Term as President, CEO For Five Years
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The year-end exec lockdown continues, Yesterday, Steve Burke and other top Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) execs got extensions to keep them on board… Read more »
Playdom Hires Thomas Weisel Partners’ Christa Quarles As New CFO
Playdom has a former EA star as its CEO, a fresh round of $43 million in funding, and now a well-known financial analyst as its CFO. Christa… Read more »
Zynga Launches Standalone Game Site, Sheds Light On Virtual Goods Business
Seemingly unfazed by a looming class-action lawsuit triggered by allegations of misleading ads, social gamer Zynga has launched FarmVille.co… Read more »
SEC Watch: New DirecTV CEO Could Make $35.5 Million (And Then Some)
Michael White, the PepsiCo vet who takes over as president and CEO of DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) Jan. 1, could make more than $35 million during hi… Read more »
Facebook, Zynga Face Class-Action Suit Over Offer-Based Ads
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Offer-based ads seemed to be the secret to monetizing social games — and social network users, in general — that standard banner ads could… Read more »
DirecTV Finally Gets New CEO: PepsiCo’s Michael White
Five months after Chase Carey returned to News Corp (NYSE: NWS). as deputy chairman and COO, DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) finally has a successor as… Read more »
Zynga Adds $15.1 Million More In Funding
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What … me worry about “scammy” ad accusations? Social gamer Zynga may be struggling with an image problem stemming from its offer-based in… Read more »
Adobe To Cut Nine Percent Of Its Workforce On Top Of Layoffs At Omniture
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Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is going through its second round of layoffs in a year. In an SEC filing, the company says it will cut 680 jobs worldwide… Read more »
After Facebook Bans FishVille, Zynga Pulls Plug On All Performance-Based Ads
More fallout from the media backlash surrounding the performance-based ads that social gaming companies like Zynga have been using to moneti… Read more »
LinkedIn’s Hoffman Joins Greylock Partners; Fund Raises $575 Million More
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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has joined Greylock Partners as an investing partner, and the VC firm — which currently backs Pandora and Isr… Read more »
Report: Zynga Adds Virtual Pets To Roster With GoPets Acquisition
Social gamer Zynga has acquired GoPets, a gaming company that lets people create and train virtual pets, according to Virtual Goods News. We… Read more »
Aviary Raises $7 Million From Spark Capital, Bezos For Online Image Editing Suite
Aviary, a startup that is trying to take on Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) with a suite of sophisticated web-based image editing tools aimed at artists,… Read more »
Malone, Murdoch Kick NBCU’s Tires, But No Test Drives
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As luck would have it, the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) annual meetings both took place in New York today — the s… Read more »
Why Social Gaming Is Ripe For A Major Acquisition
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Reports have been flying around about Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) potentially buying hot social-gaming company Playfish — with sources tel… Read more »
Vivendi Board Meets This Week But Decision On GE Stake Could Stretch Into December
The sound of ticking as Vivendi SA (EPA: VIV) decides whether or not to sell its 20 percent stake in *NBC Universal* during this year’s wind… Read more »
Adobe Has Figured Out How To Bring Flash Apps To The iPhone
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In a strange twist of events, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) has enabled developers to build Flash applications for the iPhone, even though it hasn’t ye… Read more »
Adobe Extends Full Flash To Just About Every Phone But The iPhone
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Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) has secured relationships will Research In Motion, Windows Mobile, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to roll out… Read more »
Adobe-Omniture: Some Details From SEC Filings
Some more details on Adobe’s acquisition of Omniture (NSDQ: OMTR), from the SEC filing filed today, following the acquisition announcement e… Read more »
Zynga Accuses Playdom Of Stealing Trade Secrets, Gets Restraining Order
The legal drama between social gaming rivals Zynga and Playdom moved from claims of misleading ads to accusations of trade secret theft and… Read more »
