After Starting Streaming Race, Starz Now Lags Behind HBO And Showtime
The evolution of premium cable TV beyond the living room took another step this week, with Showtime introducing a streaming app to rival HBO… Read more »
Sirius XM Wins Consumer Lawsuit, Digs In Against Stern and Shareholders
Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI), flying high on a brighter balance sheet, received more good news after a California judge tossed a class action laws… Read more »
Barnes & Noble Bullish, Even On Drastically Shrinking Print Market
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Speaking at Liberty Media’s annual investor meeting this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch said the company expects th… Read more »
Lawsuit Magnet Sirius XM Wins One Ruling, Loses Another
Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) likes to tout its large and diverse offerings — though sometimes it’s hard to tell if the company is talking about i… Read more »
Updated: Barnes & Noble Gets $204 Million Investment From Liberty Media
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It is not the outright buy that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) was hoping for, but *Liberty Media* is making a strategic investment of $204 mill… 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 »
Liberty’s Malone Bets On B&N’s Digital Side, But It’s Not A Done Deal Yet
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Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) CEO John Malone finally broke his silence on the company’s possible acquisition of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) at… Read more »
Barnes & Noble: E-books Now Outsell Print Books 3 To 1 On BN.com
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As Barnes & Noble’s board reviews a bid from Liberty Media to acquire the company, it still has to focus on the here-and-now of running a bu… Read more »
What We Learned About The Book Industry This Week
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We’d expected that Liberty Media’s bid for Barnes & Noble would be the most talked-about topic this week at BookExpo America, the largest tr… Read more »
Updated: Liberty Media Offers $1 Billion For Barnes & Noble; Would Buy 70 Percent
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Bankrupt Borders needs a sale the most but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which put itself in play last August, is the book retailer with a ser… Read more »
IAC’s Sales Beat Expectations Rising 27 Percent
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IAC (NSDQ: IACI), which rejiggered its operations during the most recent quarter, laying off employees at its search business and swapping E… Read more »
Liberty Media To Shut Down Fantasy Sports Site Fanball
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) is shutting down its fantasy sports site Fanball. A message that went up on the site earlier this week, which wa… Read more »
Mobile Streams Sells Ringtones.com For $750k
The ringtones market ain’t what it used to be, but there’s life in it yet: Mobile Streams, a mobile content outfit part-owned by Liberty Med… Read more »
Post-Malone, Diller Moves Out Of CEO Role; Promotes IAC Vet Blatt
Two moves today for IAC (NSDQ: IACI) that most companies would separate but in this case decided to pair: Barry Diller has stepped aside as… Read more »
Liberty Media Hands Off Overture Films To Relativity Media
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA), which had said five months ago it was evaluating “strategic alternatives” for Starz’s Overture Films division,… Read more »
Liberty Media Profits, Revs Rise, Boosted By QVC
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In keeping with the general trend of cable companies getting through the recession largely unscathed, Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) posted sol… Read more »
Ex-Time Inc. Digital News Head Vivek Shah Joins TheStreet.com’s Board
Vivek Shah, who left Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) as digital head at news division of Time Inc. last November, has been named as an independent boa… Read more »
Liberty’s Malone Will Be Out As DirecTV Chairman; Maffei Leaving Board, Too
Over the past few years satellite distributor DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) serially has been under the control of two of the most powerful men in med… Read more »
Liberty Cuts Off ‘Strategic Transaction’ Talks With WorldSpace
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The end could be near for bankrupt satellite radio firm WorldSpace. The company put out a terse statement this afternoon saying that its “st… Read more »
TheStreet Lost $45.5 Million In ’09; But Ad Revs May Have Turned A Corner
Financial news site TheStreet.com may have finished the year with a loss of $45.5 million — compared with 2008′s $2.4 million profit — the… Read more »
Liberty Evaluating ‘Strategic Alternatives’ For Overture Films
Two months after hiring former HBO CEO Chris Albrecht to oversee Starz as part of an original programming push, Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA)… Read more »
Zynga Acquires Social Game Developer Serious Business
Zynga, the current social gaming behemoth, is using some of its money to do acquisitions: it has bought Serious Business, creators of social… Read more »
Zynga To Bring Its Games To Microsoft Properties
Zynga’s social games — which are already played by upwards of 230 million people each month — are about to get even more reach. The compan… Read more »
TheStreet.com CEO Daryl Otte Promises Renewed Focus After Kikucall Acquisition And Promotions Sale
At the start of TheStreet.com’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Daryl Otte finally acknowledged that the company bought mobile and interactive agency… Read more »
The iPhone Wrap: HBO; LinkedIn’s Upgrade; Panasonic’s Shaving Game
– Welcome to the iPhone, HBO: The premium cable network has launched an iPhone app that gives users show snippets and a program guide, but… Read more »
SEC Watch: Liberty Extends Maffei’s Term as President, CEO For Five Years
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The year-end exec lockdown continues, Yesterday, Steve Burke and other top Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) execs got extensions to keep them on board… Read more »
Playdom Hires Thomas Weisel Partners’ Christa Quarles As New CFO
Playdom has a former EA star as its CEO, a fresh round of $43 million in funding, and now a well-known financial analyst as its CFO. Christa… Read more »
Zynga Launches Standalone Game Site, Sheds Light On Virtual Goods Business
Seemingly unfazed by a looming class-action lawsuit triggered by allegations of misleading ads, social gamer Zynga has launched FarmVille.co… Read more »
SEC Watch: New DirecTV CEO Could Make $35.5 Million (And Then Some)
Michael White, the PepsiCo vet who takes over as president and CEO of DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) Jan. 1, could make more than $35 million during hi… Read more »
Facebook, Zynga Face Class-Action Suit Over Offer-Based Ads
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Offer-based ads seemed to be the secret to monetizing social games — and social network users, in general — that standard banner ads could… Read more »
DirecTV Finally Gets New CEO: PepsiCo’s Michael White
Five months after Chase Carey returned to News Corp (NYSE: NWS). as deputy chairman and COO, DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) finally has a successor as… Read more »
Zynga Adds $15.1 Million More In Funding
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What … me worry about “scammy” ad accusations? Social gamer Zynga may be struggling with an image problem stemming from its offer-based in… Read more »
After Facebook Bans FishVille, Zynga Pulls Plug On All Performance-Based Ads
More fallout from the media backlash surrounding the performance-based ads that social gaming companies like Zynga have been using to moneti… Read more »
LinkedIn’s Hoffman Joins Greylock Partners; Fund Raises $575 Million More
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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has joined Greylock Partners as an investing partner, and the VC firm — which currently backs Pandora and Isr… Read more »
Report: Zynga Adds Virtual Pets To Roster With GoPets Acquisition
Social gamer Zynga has acquired GoPets, a gaming company that lets people create and train virtual pets, according to Virtual Goods News. We… Read more »
Malone, Murdoch Kick NBCU’s Tires, But No Test Drives
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As luck would have it, the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) annual meetings both took place in New York today — the s… Read more »
Why Social Gaming Is Ripe For A Major Acquisition
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Reports have been flying around about Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) potentially buying hot social-gaming company Playfish — with sources tel… Read more »
Vivendi Board Meets This Week But Decision On GE Stake Could Stretch Into December
The sound of ticking as Vivendi SA (EPA: VIV) decides whether or not to sell its 20 percent stake in *NBC Universal* during this year’s wind… Read more »
Zynga Accuses Playdom Of Stealing Trade Secrets, Gets Restraining Order
The legal drama between social gaming rivals Zynga and Playdom moved from claims of misleading ads to accusations of trade secret theft and… Read more »
Survey: More Employers Use Facebook To Vet New Hires Than LinkedIn
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Facebook may be the stickiest social network here in the U.S. — but LinkedIn is thought to be the default network for a “professional” prof… Read more »
