Earnings: CNET Users Up, Views Down, Webshots To Be Scaled Back
CNET Networks’ net losses grew from $1.3 million in Q106 to $9.1 million this time around, thanks in part to costs of $4.4 million paid to a… Read more »
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CNET Networks Invests In Linguistic Search Firm TextDigger
By Rafat Ali
TextDigger, a yet-to-launch (but presenting at Demo conference this week) online search startup, has received $1.5 million in its first roun… Read more »
CNET Acquires French Games Site GameKult; More Chinese Acquisitions
By Rafat Ali
CNET Networks, which announced its Q206 earnings today, also mentioned some new acquisitions it did in the last couple of quarters:
– First… Read more »
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Earnings: CNET's Profits Fall Due To Costs Of Options Investigation; Closing Korean Operations
By Rafat Ali
Updated from earnings call below: CNET Networks reported its Q4 2006 results today, and its profits fell to $6.3 million, compared to $20.7… Read more »
CNET China To Acquire Appliance Review Site
By David Kaplan
Beijing based IT portal Zol.com.cn (owned by CNET) plans to acquire appliance review website Ea3w.com. The acquisition is expected to be com… Read more »
CNET's New Exec Team: Some Details From SEC Filings
By Rafat Ali
CNET Networks has finalized the contract for the new CEO Neil Ashe, according to its latest SEC filing. His employment agreement, effective… Read more »
MedTrackAlerts Gets $1 Million Angel Funding; CNET SVP Joining
By Rafat Ali
MedTrackAlert, a new online media company covering prescription drug news for consumers, has raised a million dollars in angel funding. The… Read more »
CNET’s Exec Exodus: Making Sense of It
By Rafat Ali
CNET COO Barry Briggs left earlier this week…William Morrison, an analyst with JMP Securities, came out with a research note (picked up by… Read more »
Condolences To The CNET Family
The body of CNET senior editor James Kim, missing for 11 days in the remote Oregon wilderness, has been found. We hope that discovery brings… Read more »
CNET Upside In Takeover Scenario
By Rafat Ali
Some analysts are still bullish on CNET Networks, despite weakness in its core business and a stock-options backdating scandal…Barron’s bl… Read more »
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NetCoalition Asks SEC To Rethink Real-Time Fees; Forbes, Portals Among Those Who Have Halted Service
If you spend any time at financial news sites or portals you may have noticed recent notes that say real-time quotes are no longer available… Read more »
CNET Sells Release 1.0 Newsletter To O’Reilly Media; To Be Renamed
By Rafat Ali
Updated below: So we heard through sources at the Web 2.0 conference…Release 1.0, the original and influential newsletter about technology… Read more »
CNET Acquires French Food Site Art Culinaire
By Rafat Ali
Update: I linked to the wrong site..the correct URL is Arts-culinaires.com.
Also from its conference call, CNET mentioned that it has made a… Read more »
What’s really Behind CNET’s comScore Dispute
By Jonathan Berr
Will CNET explanation for its decline in Q3 page views appease Wall Street? The jury is still out.
Page views fell 13 percent to about 86 mi… Read more »
Earnings: CNET’s Sales Up 13%; Delays Profit Report, Again
By Rafat Ali
CNET Networks, under investigation following the backdated stock options scandal, has decided not to reports its profits for Q3 (the second… Read more »
CNET: More On Bonnie’s Resignation, Options Query
Shelby Bonnie’s resignation as CNET chairman and CEO comes as companies ranging from Apple to United Health are feeling the effects of inves… Read more »
CNET CEO Shelby Bonnie Resigns After Options Investigation
By Rafat Ali
Shelby Bonnie, the emblematic co-founder and CEO of CNET Networks, has resigned as CEO, after the company found errors in how the firm accou… Read more »
MIXX: The Future Is Now
With six high-energy, competitive execs and multiple agendas, the MIXX super session on The Future could have been a disaster. Instead, mod… Read more »
Industry Moves: CNET EVP Suzie Reider Leaves; Joins YouTube As CMO
By Rafat Ali
Kinda interesting how everyone’s raiding CNET’s talent pool for startup senior execs (though CNET has always been a good platform for a lot… Read more »
Chow-ing Down: CNET Meets Chowhound Meets Chow Mag
CNET Networks’ latest non-geek consumer play Chow.com (placeholder for now), gets a pre-launch intro in just the right place to set it aside… Read more »
CNET Enters Into Parenting Category; Buys UrbanBaby; Buys Chinese Auto Site; Chow.com Launch
By Rafat Ali
In its earnings announcement today, CNET slipped in some major moves on its part.
– It mentioned that in May, it bought UrbanBaby, a parent… Read more »
CNET Q2 Revs Rise 14 Percent; Profit Report Delayed; Page Views Drop Due To Webshots
By Rafat Ali
CNET Networks (Nasdaq: CNET) posted a 14 percent rise in Q2 revenues to $92 million (beating analyst estimates), but it did not report profi… Read more »
CNET to Restate Results From 2003 to 2005
By Rafat Ali
CNET Networks expects to restate its financial statements going back to 2003 to correct errors related to accounting for stock-based compens… Read more »
CNet Subpoenaed on Option Grants
By Rafat Ali
I don’t understand this very clearly, but it is affecting CNET’s stock price…it has received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Attorney… Read more »
Industry Moves: CNET’s Entertainment Properties New Head
By Rafat Ali
We reported about Vince Broady’s move to Yahoo yesterday. He was heading CNET”s entertainment properties (GameSpot, MP3.com, TV.com, among o… Read more »
First Look: Yahoo Tech
Yahoo’s consumer tech site launched Sunday night. Some initial observations given that the site is supposed to be a step forward (the NYT ca… Read more »
CNET Conference Call: Webshots’ Competition With Facebook; Gamespot vs IGN Etc
By Rafat Ali
Surprisingly, the CNET Q1 earnings conference call focused a lot on competition between Webshots (mainly because of how the phtoto sharing s… Read more »
CNET Buys Assets Of Chow Magazine; Pushing In Food Vertical
By Rafat Ali
CNET, which recently bought Chowhound food-community site, has made another small acquisition in the category: it has bought the assets of I… Read more »
Earnings: CNET Posts Slim Q1 Loss; Reduces Forecast
By Rafat Ali
CNET Networks posted a Q1 loss on higher sales, yet the company chopped its full-year profit forecast mostly due to the expensing of employe… Read more »
CNET Gets Into Social Networking; Launches College Site Off Webshots
By Rafat Ali
Another in the line of CNET’s diversification: it has launched a college-focused online community site, spun off its Webshots picture-sharin… Read more »
CNET Networks Buys ChowHound; Gets Into Foodie Community
By Rafat Ali
You want proof of why CNET won’t or can’t be sold? It is getting weirder and weirder by the day. Take this: it has bought out serious foodie… Read more »
Sites Worth Buying Dwindle For Media Companies
NBC Universal’s purchase of iVillage highlighted both the increased interest in media acquisitions and the dwindling number of properties wo… Read more »
Industry Moves: CNET Hires Internet M&A Banker As VP, Strategy
By Rafat Ali
CNET Networks, itself the speculation of M&A for a long time now, has hired investment banker Zander Lurie from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Luri… Read more »
Earnings: More From CNET
This week’s earning report from CNET underscores why the sprawling content network with its 116 million or so monthly uniques is the interne… Read more »
Earnings: CNET Sells Computer Shopper; 4Q05 Revenues Up 20 Percent: Audio
It’s the end of an era of sorts for CNET — as of 1Q06, with the sale of Computer Shopper as announced today, publishing is no longer consid… Read more »
Hipster Dating Site Bought Out By CNET Networks
By Rafat Ali
(via TechCrunch) So it has come to this (I’m using this phrase twice in a week, so you can see where this is going): CNET Networks has moved… Read more »
CNET Shares Rise on Viacom Rumor
By Rafat Ali
if you were wondering why CNET’s shares were up today (as posters on CNET’s message boards on Yahoo Finance were wondering too), there was a… Read more »
10-Q Watch: CNET’s Acquisitions
By Rafat Ali
Some good info on CNET’s acquistions over the last six months or so…the names of the acquired companies came out earlier, but not the pric… Read more »
Earnings: CNET Reports Increased Traffic, “Interactive” Revenue For 3Q05; Shows Net Loss
Updated to include earnings call quotes and audio: CNET’s interactive revenue grew 28 percent to $78.6 million in 3Q05 compared to $61.4 mil… Read more »
Congratulations, Google
… for coming to your collective senses about dealing with the press. CNET News.com’s story about Google’s index on steroids included quote… Read more »
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