Staci D. Kramer
May 4, 2011 8:04 PM
In a matter of weeks, Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) went from testing movie rentals via Facebook Credits to owning one of the top social conduits for movie info. The Time Warner company is adding Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes to the digital family, picking up 20 million unique users with a…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 8, 2010 11:30 PM
News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) received $12.5 million in Flixster stock when it sold its Rotten Tomatoes movie reviews site to the startup last month, according to an SEC filing. We first reported about it on Twitter this morning, though the filing wasn’t clear enough on the mix of stock and…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 4, 2010 12:59 PM
News Corp.‘s digital unit is continuing on its non-core asset sale plan: first Photobucket to Ontela, and now comes the sale of popular movie reviews site Rotten Tomatoes, to Flixster. As was the structure with the sale of Photobucket, News Corp (NYSE: NWS) unit IGN Entertainment, which owned RT, will…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Apr 4, 2008 10:34 AM
So Flixster finally decided not to sell (or, that no one was willing to pay its blue-sky valuation hopes): the movie-based social service that’s popular on Facebook, has raised $5 million of a planned $8 million second round according to peHUB. The round was led by Pinnacle Ventures, with participation…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 11, 2008 4:00 PM
The Flixster deal talks have been going on for a while, and IAC (NSDQ: IACI) has been in and out of discussions with the movie recommendations site/application. Now WSJ’s Deal Journal is reporting that the deal is close to being done, but the price would be less than the $150…
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