Rafat Ali
Feb 11, 2010 10:58 AM
Break Media, which recently opened up a social gaming studio, has made its first acquisition in the space: It has acquired FileFront, one of the older online gaming news/download sites. The financial details were not disclosed, but Break CEO Keith Richman told me it is in the “seven figures”. FileFront…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 25, 2010 10:00 AM
Break Media, the LA-based parent of Break.com and other men’s entertainment online properties, is expanding into the currently lucrative business of social gaming, with the launch of its first game and its gaming division. The studio, located in Shanghai, China, will launch its first game on Feb 1, called MMA…
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Tameka Kee
May 6, 2009 10:49 AM
It’s been about a month since HBO spun off HBOlab, its digital content studio, to L.A.-based entertainment company Break Media. Break got the HBOlab team—including cable industry vet Danila Koverman—and its roster of shows as part of the deal. I asked Koverman, who now serves as the director of development…
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Tameka Kee
Apr 6, 2009 2:38 PM
Looks like HBO is done experimenting with online video—at least for now. The cable TV giant has sold its “experimental” online video unit HBOlab to L.A.-based Break Media. Break CEO Keith Richman confirmed that the sale included all of studio’s assets, including offshoot Runawaybox, though he declined to disclose financial…
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Rafat Ali
Mar 4, 2008 12:57 AM
Break Media, the LA based online entertainment company which owns video sites Break.com and an ad network, is acq-hiring a business media blog called WallStreetFighter, we have learned. The announcement may come later this week. This acquisition, though seemingly outlying for the company that has focused on its young male…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 30, 2008 12:06 AM
At NATPE earlier today, I spoke to Keith Richman, the CEO of LA-based online video site Break.com. The company just announced forming an online ad network called Break Media, and launchd three news sites, all focused on its demographic of young male audience. Here he talks about the new sites,…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 12, 2007 10:41 PM
Earlier this summer, Break.com, the online video site based in Beverly Hills, announced an undisclosed amount of investment from Lionsgate, the major independent film and TV studio….which Variety later reported around $21 million. The exact amount and more details were revealed in a 10-Q filed on Friday by Lionsgate: It…
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