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 »
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 (NSDQ: SIRI), flying high on a brighter balance sheet, received more good news after a California judge tossed a class action laws… Read more »
Speaking at Liberty Media’s annual investor meeting this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch said the company expects th… Read more »
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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 »
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 »
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 Media (NSDQ: LINTA) CEO John Malone finally broke his silence on the company’s possible acquisition of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) at… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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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 (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 »
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 »
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 (NSDQ: LINTA), which had said five months ago it was evaluating “strategic alternatives” for Starz’s Overture Films division,… Read more »
In keeping with the general trend of cable companies getting through the recession largely unscathed, Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) posted sol… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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, 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’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 »
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 »
– 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 »
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 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 »
Seemingly unfazed by a looming class-action lawsuit triggered by allegations of misleading ads, social gamer Zynga has launched FarmVille.co… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 founder Reid Hoffman has joined Greylock Partners as an investing partner, and the VC firm — which currently backs Pandora and Isr… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Reports have been flying around about Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) potentially buying hot social-gaming company Playfish — with sources tel… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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