Broadband Content Bits: NBCU; MySpace-GOOD; Hearst; CNET; Showtime; YouTube Audience
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Editorial Changes At CNET: Jai Singh Leaving; Farber As New EIC
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CNET Closing Its Hipster Dating Site Consumating
By Rafat Ali
CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks, in an effort to focus on its core properties, is closing down a small site it bought in Dec 2005, ironically wit… Read more »
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Earnings: CNET CEO: Would Go Back On U.S. Purchase Prowl ‘If Valuations Correct’
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Small CNET Acquisition: Buys Chinese Auto Site Cheshi; Looking For Growth Capital There
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Earnings: CNET Q4 Revs Rise 11 Percent To $125.5 Million; Tax Benefits Boost Profit
By David Kaplan
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Industry Moves: CNET’s M&A Head Lurie Appointed As New CFO
By Rafat Ali
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Why CNET Dumped It: Webshots '07 Revs Down 36 Percent
By Joseph Weisenthal
CNET (NSDQ: CNET) has filed financial data with the SEC showing what its numbers for the first three quarters of 2007 would have looked like… Read more »
Sandell Ups CNET Stake To 2.3 Percent; Jana's Stake Inches Higher; Total Interest Nearing 23 Percent
By Joseph Weisenthal
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CNET Signs Severance Packages With Senior Execs
By Rafat Ali
CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks, in the middle of a fight to control its board, has signed severance packages with several of its seniors execs,… Read more »
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Industry Moves: Broady Out At Yahoo
Yahoo: When Scott Moore’s role at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) expanded to include Vince Broady’s portfolio last December, I was told the company was… Read more »
Loophole Allowed Activists To Acquire 21 Percent Stake In CNET Under The Radar
On the surface, it looks like we are drowning in information from companies and major shareholders. But the surprising accumulation by two h… Read more »
Updated: CNET Details Its Poison Pill; Acquirer Threatened With 'Substantial Dilution'
By Joseph Weisenthal
Just before midnight Friday, CNET (NSDQ: CNET) announced a Stockholder Rights Plan designed to, in its words, “encourage anyone seeking to a… Read more »
CNET Adopts Stockholder Rights Plan; May Give Company Leeway To Negotiate In a Takeover Fight
By Rafat Ali
CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks, in the middle of a fight with a consortium of shareholders who want to take over the board, has adopted a stockh… Read more »
CNET-Jana: The Legal Road Ahead
By Joseph Weisenthal
The flurry of activity, this week, surrounding CNET (NSDQ: CNET) and a group of activist investors, may prove nothing more than the opening… Read more »
Citi Media: Neil Ashe, CEO, CNET; Investors' Timing 'Impeccable'
By Joseph Weisenthal
CNET (NSDQ: CNET) CEO Neil Ashe obviously has a lot on his plate right now, but fortunately he was able to take a few minutes to discuss bus… Read more »
Jana Partners Increases Stake in CNET; Up To 10 Percent; Positions Harden
By Rafat Ali
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CNET Responds To Investor Interest; Deems It "Improper"
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Updated: CNET Networks Bracing Up For a Proxy Fight; Could Face Investor Takeover
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CNET: Don’t Call It a Widget
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Industry Moves Roundup: Maxim Digital Head; CNET's Ad Sales Head
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CNET Buys FindArticles From Looksmart For $20.5 Million
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CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks has made a curious buy: it has bought the news and features archives site FindArticles, from its owner LookSmart,… Read more »
10-Q Watch: CNET: 15.6 Million Spent on Three Q3 Acquisitions
By Joseph Weisenthal
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@ FOBM: Technology Business Media: Finding A Place In The Food Chain
Thanks to a superb rally of analogies, the Future Of Business Media conference momentarily sounded like a seminar on the groceries industry.… Read more »
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Earnings: CNET's Losses Increases; Hires New Entertainment Head; More Divestments Coming?
By Rafat Ali
CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks has just reported its Q3 numbers: revenues for Q3 were $99.5 million, a 7 percent increase compared to revenues o… Read more »
CNET Sells Off Photo Sharing Site Webshots To American Greetings, For $45 Million
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FOBM Pre-Interview: Neil Ashe, CEO, CNET Networks
By Rafat Ali
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Shelby Bonnie Comes Out Of The Shell; Launches Politics Info and Community Site Political Base
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Shifting Course, ABC Explores Syndicating Online Video; Similar To CBS, Hulu
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ABC (NYSE: DIS) is taking an about face on its initial plans to serve as the sole distributor of its streaming content, Mediaweek reports. T… Read more »
CNET's Options Grants Investigation By SEC Ends; No Action Taken
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CNET Networks (NSDQ: CNET) is in the clear now: the company said today that it has received notice from SEC that the investigation about its… Read more »
CNET Acquires TechTracker Family of IT Info Sites
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CNET Buys Chinese Fashion Site OnlyLady
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CNET Networks keeps making these small online buys worldwide: it has bought Chinese online fashion site OnlyLady, reports PacificEpoch. Only… Read more »
10-Q Watch: More CNET Acquisitions; SEC Options Inquiry Becomes Formal
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CNET Acquires SportsGamer To Broaden Gaming Coverage
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Earnings: Stock Option Fallout Moves CNET To Loss For Q2
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An interesting move you’re reading about here first … CNET Networks has hired Jack Haire, who retired from Time Inc. as EVP-corporate sale… Read more »
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Private Equity Media Buyout Targets This Year
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