Three Junes ago, Ross Levinsohn and his investment partner Jon Miller were caught up in the drama of Yahoo as Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) tried to acquire the company. Their names, individually and separately, were bandied about as possible board members or candidates to run Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Now both are…

WeShop is the latest social shopper to hit the scene, having just closed a $4.25 million first round, paidContent has learned. But the startup has an important attribute that ties in nicely to the current mania about behavioral targeting and user data. The New York company, currently in beta, is…

Yesterday at the Monaco Media Forum I interviewed Jon Miller, the head of News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Digital, on stage. Below is the full video of it. I grilled him on MySpace’s future, the future of Google’s search deal, on Murdoch’s half-incoherent statements about Google (NSDQ: GOOG) (and the resulting…

News Corp (NYSE: NWS) has hinted at it in bits and pieces over the last six months, but now Dawn’s reporting in LAT that he has been meeting with various media companies, in an effort to “develop a forming a consortium that would charge for news distributed online and on…

In addition to the 420 layoffs announced today at MySpace, nearly 30 percent of the social network’s U.S. staff, Fox Interactive Media quietly is cutting corporate staff. Unlike MySpace, whose CEO Owen Van Natta was open about the amount, FIM is playing it closer to the vest. Then again, investors…

The shoe has dropped at MySpace and it’s a big one: the News Corp social network is cutting nearly 30 percent of its staff, reducing the domestic staff size to 1,000 from 1,420 as it tries to dial back to a start-up culture—and make money. With no mention of staff…

Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch used the announcement of Chase Carey as his new deputy to offer News Corp (NYSE: NWS) staff—and the rest of us—“a state of the company” snapshot. Murdoch talks about the management changes already made in advance of Peter Chernin’s departure as president and COO on…

News Corp digital head Jon Miller and MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta (pictured, right) have been in quiet mode but are appearing at D7, run by siblings AllThingsD and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS). First up: some “market research” in the form of survey results that showed why people leave MySpace—31…

Updated: It’s official. *News Corp* has confirmed that Van Natta is MySpace’s new CEO. The full release is embedded after the jump. It will be completely anticlimactic by then but Kara Swisher is reporting—and I believe it to be true—that News Corp (NYSE: NWS). will announce Friday that former rival…

*News Corp.* digital media head Jon Miller is moving swiftly—more swiftly than even he expected, I think—to take charge of the company’s most important digital asset: MySpace. Just how that will be accomplished is still playing out but it looks like it will be done without Chris DeWolfe and most…

Somehow it makes perfect sense that within weeks of the departure of Randy Falco from AOL (NYSE: TWX), the man he succeeded so unceremoniously as CEO will have a new job—not with *Yahoo*, *Microsoft* or any of the other options rumored while Jon Miller has played the exec version of…

Former *AOL* head Jonathan Miller told Fortune that Velocity Interactive, the VC firm he founded with Ross Levinsohn, wasn’t a “parking spot” for him until he found another big corporate job. But Miller has reportedly landed an even meatier position: he’ll be heading up digital at News Corp.. Nikke Finke…

Velocity Interactive Group’s Jon Miller is not trying to acquire Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), nor is he a candidate to replace Jerry Yang as CEO, Bloomberg reports, citing unidentified sources. Miller declined to comment on either point in an interview with Bloomberg.  Earlier this month, activist investor and Yahoo director Carl…

Jon Miller, former CEO of AOL and now one of the founders of VC firm Velocity along with Ross Levinsohn, is in the process of raising funds to try to buy Yahoo, reports the WSJ, citing sources. The story says he has been trying to do it for months. Our…

This is the number one question I get when people talk about Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn and their VC firm Velocity...now they are have cleared it up a bit with Richard Siklos of Fortune: “they insist Velocity is not just a parking spot until another big corporate job comes…

So the real drama was happening outside Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) annual shareholder meeting…well, happened yesterday, to be exact. Jon Miller won’t going on the Yahoo board for reasons being disputed now, including a denial from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) that it reneged on a non-compete waiver. What were the motivations…

Update: Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) spokesman Keith Cocozza says the company never granted Jon Miller permission to join the Yahoo board. “When Jon Miller signed his contract it specifically said that upon payout of the contract he could not work for a variety of competitors until March 2009. The non-compete…

In a keynote conversation on the fracturing content landscape and how to make money from it, Velocity Interactive Group’s general partner Ross Levinsohn and founding partner Jon Miller pointed to interactive media as the big monkeymaker. Facilitated by Jack Feuer, editorial director of UCLA Magazine and MediaX columnist for MediaPost,…

Velocity is on a tear: the investment group led by Jon Miller (ex-AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO) and Ross Levinsohn (ex-Fox Interactive Head) has now become an investor in Motricity…this was part of the big December 2007 round of $185 million. The investment was discretely mentioned in a press release today…