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Jon Miller, News Corp.: It’s All About Video For Us Right Now

Jan 24, 2012 6:33 AM

Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.

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Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Entertainment, Games, Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, YouTube, Microsoft, xBox, News Corp., Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, Fox, MySpace, Countries, Europe, Germany, jon miller

Yahoo’s Levinsohn: ‘I’m Not Crazy’

Jun 6, 2011 5:00 AM

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…

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Posted In: Advertising, Companies, Microsoft, News Corp., Yahoo, carol bartz, fuse capital, jon miller, ross levinsohn

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WeShop Raises $4.25 Million Round; Marries Targeting And User Control

Aug 4, 2010 12:00 AM

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…

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Posted In: Advertising, E-Commerce, Features, Exclusive, Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Companies, News Corp., carlos sala, frank kenny, jon miller, martin white, weshop

Jon Miller On MySpace’s Future And Google Controversy

Nov 13, 2009 10:48 AM

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…

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Posted In: Companies, News Corp., MySpace, jon miller

More on News Corp’s Charging-For-News Consortium Obsession

Aug 21, 2009 1:42 AM

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…

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Posted In: Companies, News Corp., jon miller

Industry Moves
FIM Layoffs Underway; Unlike MySpace, No Specifics

Jun 16, 2009 1:18 PM

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…

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Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, News Corp., Fox, Fox Interactive Media, MySpace, jon miller

MySpace Cuts U.S. Staff By Nearly 30 Percent

Jun 16, 2009 12:21 PM

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…

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Posted In: Companies, News Corp., MySpace, jon miller, owen van natta

Murdoch’s Memo: ‘Not A Time To Stand Still’

Jun 3, 2009 3:48 PM

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…

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Posted In: , chase carey, jon miller, rupert murdoch

@ D7: News Corp’s Jon Miller, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta Break Silence

May 27, 2009 6:50 PM

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…

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Posted In: Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Companies, News Corp., Fox, Fox Interactive Media, MySpace, jon miller, owen van natta

MySpace Update: Van Natta CEO Announcement Today

Apr 23, 2009 7:34 PM

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…

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Posted In: Companies, News Corp., Fox, Fox Interactive Media, MySpace, chris dewolfe, jon miller, owen van natta, tom anderson

Industry Moves
MySpace Shakeup: DeWolfe Out As News Corp Digital Head Miller Takes Charge

Apr 22, 2009 2:45 PM

*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…

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Posted In: Industry Moves, Social Media, Companies, News Corp., Fox, Fox Interactive Media, MySpace, chris dewolfe, jon miller

What Jon Miller Brings To News Corp.—And What He Needs To Do

Mar 30, 2009 7:00 AM

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…

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Posted In: Companies, News Corp., Fox, Fox Interactive Media, MySpace, chris dewolfe, jon miller, rupert murdoch

Industry Moves
Jon Miller Finally Lands A New Gig: Chief Digital Officer For News Corp.

Mar 27, 2009 8:15 PM

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…

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Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, News Corp., jon miller

Velocity’s Miller Out Of The Running For Top Yahoo Job Or Takeover: Report

Dec 17, 2008 9:00 AM

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…

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Posted In: Companies, Yahoo, jon miller

Ex-AOL CEO Miller Reportedly Raising Funds To Bid For Yahoo; But Could Be For His Own Fund

Dec 2, 2008 12:57 PM

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…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Yahoo, jon miller, velocity

Miller and Levinsohn: Velocity Is Not a Parking Spot For Us

Aug 15, 2008 12:49 PM

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…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, jon miller, ross levinsohn, velocity interactive group

Did Miller’s CEO Chances Lead To Time Warner’s Decision? Possible Board Replacement

Aug 1, 2008 6:51 PM

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…

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Posted In: Companies, AOL, Time Warner, Yahoo, jon miller

Time Warner Denies Giving Ex-AOL Head Miller Approval To Join Yahoo Board

Aug 1, 2008 1:30 PM

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…

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Posted In: Companies, AOL, Time Warner, Yahoo, jeff bewkes, jon miller

@ OMMA: Velocity’s Levinsohn And Miller On Video Sharing And Money; No More Social Media Investments

Mar 17, 2008 4:03 PM

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,…

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Posted In: Advertising, Companies, News Corp., jon miller, ross levinsohn, velocity interactive group

Updated: Motricity Also Received Investment From Velocity; Miller Joins Board

Mar 12, 2008 11:47 AM

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…

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Posted In: Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, jon miller, motricity, velocity interactive group

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