Discovery Rises On Advertising, Higher Affiliate Fees
Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) usually holds its Q2 earnings in the days after its flagship channel’s annual Shark Week hit programm… Read more »
Time Warner’s Bewkes Is In No Hurry For More Online Video Deals
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While his counterparts at CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) offer new streaming video deals with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NS… Read more »
comScore Acquires Analytics Firm AdXpose
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Audience analytics firm comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is acquiring ad campaign effectiveness firm AdXpose for $22 million in a mostly stock-based tr… Read more »
Comcast’s Burke: NBCU Content ‘More Valuable’ Thanks To Retrans, Online
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Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has had some success with NBCUniversal programming since it took control early this year — taking credit for greenlig… Read more »
Comcast Loses Video Subs But Revs Rise For Cable, NBCU
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Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) was unable to escape cable industry trends of basic video subscriber losses, though it did have some success in adding… Read more »
Time Warner Film Dollars Rise On Video Game Hits; Mags Gain A Bit
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Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) saw profits and revenues boosted by movie sequels, but did even better thanks to video games tied to film franchises… Read more »
CBS Moonves: More Digital Streaming Deals Suggest More Gains In Q3
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CBS (NYSE: CBS) CEO Les Moonves began the call by touting the international expansion of its streaming video deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX),… Read more »
Digital Comprises 15 Percent Of CBS’ Simon & Schuster Revenues
Digital revenues more than doubled last year’s Q2 digital sales for CBS’ publishing unit Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS) and accounted for 15 p… Read more »
CBS’ Digital Streaming Helps Boost Entertainment Revenue
CBS’ entertainment revenues were up 10 percent in Q2, with much of the credit going to an April licensing deal for streaming video with Netf… Read more »
Weak MetroPCS Earnings Not Helping AT&T’s ‘Competitive Market’ Argument
Evidence of a competitive wireless market in the U.S. continued to elude AT&T (NYSE: T) with the release of the latest numbers from MetroPCS… Read more »
B2B Helps Guardian, But News ‘Faces Serious Challenges’
If the question “What is Guardian Media Group?” could be answered by a look at its profits sheet, the reply would be “a business publisher”,… Read more »
China’s Sohu Reports Record Revenue To Nasdaq
Chinese search and games operator Sohu (NSDQ: SOHU) hit record revenue during its eleventh year on the Nasdaq. Read more »
Patent Headache Not Slowing HTC, Smartphone Sales More Than Double
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Despite the uncertainty around its patent situation, Android continues to prove very lucrative for companies like HTC, which reported soarin… Read more »
UBM’s Property Paywalls Boost Online Subs 85 Percent
B2B publisher United Business Media (LSE: UBM) has grown online subscription revenue by 85 percent in the last year, after introducing paywa… Read more »
Penguin Sees 14 Percent Of Sales From E-books
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Penguin’s global e-book sales grew 128 percent over the last year to represent 14 percent of the publisher’s total revenue. Read more »
FT Has Attracted A Third More Digital Subs In The Last Year
iPad and mobile are becoming of increasing importance to The Financial Times, accounting for 22 percent of web traffic and 15 percent of new… Read more »
Booming BSkyB Sweetens Shareholders, Sees 800k VOD Users
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is trying to keep investors happy, even without a big exit to News Corp.
2010/11 earnings per share jumped 30 percent to… Read more »
Smartphone, Xoom Shipments Up At Motorola, But Division Losing Money
Motorola (NYSE: MMI) exceeded analyst estimates for revenue and earnings per share during its second quarter, according to numbers released… Read more »
McClatchy Profits Fall Amid Industrywide Declines
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By now, investors ought to be used to The McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company’s consistent drift of revenue and net income declines since it retur… Read more »
Reuters’ Glocer Outlines Three-Stage Plan For Markets Division
The huge shakeup at the Markets’ division dominated the Thomson Reuters’ otherwise positive Q2 earnings call this morning, as analysts peppe… Read more »
In Charts: Nasdaq Debutante Yandex Sees Strong Growth
Russian search leader Yandex showed the Nasdaq a strong set of results in its first ever report as a public company – and committed to heavy… Read more »
Sprint Announces LightSquared Partnership, Posts Higher Loss
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Struggling mobile provider *Sprint* Nextel announced a 15-year partnership with LightSquared on Thursday, the wireless venture backed by bil… Read more »
Thomson Reuters’ Markets Segment Results ‘Below Expectations’
Overall, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) had a decent Q2, but results in it’s Markets division continue to be anemic. That segment, which was th… Read more »
Updated: TWC Lost 130,000 Video Subs In Q2; Broadband Picks Up The Slack
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Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) turned in plenty of good numbers in the second quarter but one particular increase wasn’t among them: resident… Read more »
BT’s Spring Puts TalkTalk In The Shade
BT (NYSE: BT) added 251,000 DSL connections between April and June, while TalkTalk lost 27,000 broadband customers.
BT signed up 71,000 fib… Read more »
RBI Blames Weaker Magazines For Wiping Out Online Gains
It sounds like RBI’s restructuring may not yet be over.
Reporting eight percent lower revenue for the first half of the year, parent Reed E… Read more »
Has Stock Market Favorite Netflix Hit A Wall Or Just Stalled?
For the last year-and-a-half, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), the streaming video phenom, has seen its stock soar as it’s gobbled up new users. The co… Read more »
IAC’s Diller: Daily Beast/Newsweek Losses Are More Than Tolerable
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IAC’s media businesses — The Daily Beast/Newsweek, digital entertainment studio Electus and video site College Humor — don’t often get a l… Read more »
IAC Revenue Up 23 Percent; Beast Losses Continue
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) Q2 net income more than tripled from a year ago to $42.4 million, as healthy growth across the board – and especially from… Read more »
ITV Will Intro Online Paid Content By Year’s End
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“We plan to have a pay mechanism in place around the turn of the year so that we can test what people will pay for (online),” ITV (LSE: ITV)… Read more »
Electronic Arts Reports Higher Digital Revenues, Raises 2Q Outlook
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Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) topped Wall Street expectations for its last quarter, sending the company’s shares up as much as two percent af… Read more »
Kindle 3G With Special Offers A Bestseller As Amazon Sales Soar 51% In Q2
Fueled by “accelerating” Kindle sales–especially of the Kindle 3G with Special Offers, which was released just two weeks ago but has alread… Read more »
MSLO Digital Growth Slows
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After watching digital revenues surge regularly by double digits over the past year, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) saw interne… Read more »
Full Stream Ahead For Hastings & Netflix (But DVDs Still Add Fuel)
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For CEO Reed Hastings and his team, consumer behavior provided the sign that it was time for Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to shift from a hybrid str… Read more »
Mail Online Revenue Growing Slower Than Audience
Mail Online and Metro.co.uk are making 51 percent more revenue than last year. That’s the difference parent DMGT disclosed Tuesday morning. Read more »
Chinese Web Giant Baidu Beats Expectations With 95 Percent Profit Jump
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Chinese internet search giant Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) reported a 95 percent increase in net income on Monday, beating Wall Street expectations an… Read more »
Netflix Passes 25 Million Subs, Passes On Hulu — And Fails The Street
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) passed 25.5 million subs, including 24.6 million in the U.S. and 970,000 in Canada, producing a $68 million profit on $… Read more »
Verizon Gets An LTE Lift In Q2, Raises McAdam Up To CEO
If Vodafone’s earnings today underscored the pressure on operators to move on from their traditional lines of business, then Verizon’s earni… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 7-22-11: Vodafone; iPhone Bluetooth; Twitter Mobile Payments
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Earnings: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) reported better-than-expected, if small, growth in servic… Read more »
Vodafone: Bumper Data Growth In Europe On Slowing Service Revenue Overall
The rise of smartphones has meant a big boost in data use and data revenues, but in many cases that is still not offsetting declines for mob… Read more »
