TheStreet.com Misses Earnings Deadline, Citing Discrepancies From Promotions.com Deal
TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) missed filing its Q209 earnings report — and has been cited by Nasdaq for the deficiency. What’s holding up the… Read more »
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Zynga Acquires Virtual World-Creator MyMiniLife
By Tameka Kee
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Social gaming company Zynga has acquired MyMiniLife, a Palo Alto-based social entertainment firm that lets users create and decorate virtual… Read more »
Is Crowd-Sourcing Helping Businesses Leverage Social Media, Or Just Get Cheap Labor?
By Tameka Kee
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Social media has made it much easier for companies to tap into the crowd for everything from Wikipedia entries, to serial thrillers, and eve… Read more »
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LinkedIn Changes CEOs Again; Weiner Replaces Hoffman
By Rafat Ali
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Reid Hoffman, who stepped in the CEO of LinkedIn only six months ago, has stepped down again, and Jeff Weiner, the former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)… Read more »
Social Gaming Gets Litigious: Zynga Sues Playdom Over Mafia Wars Ads
By Tameka Kee
The social gaming boom has resulted in a legal spat between two of its biggest players: Zynga is suing rival Playdom over the way Playdom is… Read more »
Industry Moves: Zynga Bulks Up; Turn Adds Tacoda Vet
By Tameka Kee
– Zynga: The social gaming company continues to bulk up. On the heels of hiring *Yahoo* vet Vish Makhijani (whose title will be SVP of cas… Read more »
Industry Moves: Playdom Hires Away Zynga, EA Execs
By Tameka Kee
Money isn’t the only thing flowing into the social gaming business — these app-based startups continue to attract new talent. The latest so… Read more »
Industry Moves: Yahoo Vet Vish Makhijani Goes To Play With Zynga
By Tameka Kee
Former *Yahoo* search GM Vish Makhijani is on the move again; he’s joining social gaming company Zynga in a “senior operating role,” TechCru… Read more »
Facebook Vs. MySpace: Where The Traffic Is Coming From
By Tameka Kee
You often hear about how different Facebook and MySpace’s user bases are. Well, maybe they’re not so distinct after all. Yahoo is the No. 1… Read more »
TheStreet.com Cuts 18 Staffers; Layoffs Part Of $2.4M Cost-Cutting Plan
By David Kaplan
Elevated interest in Wall St. since the global market meltdown this past fall hasn’t necessarily translated into financial win for TheStreet… Read more »
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Industry Moves: TheStreet.com CEO To Leave; Search For Replacement On
By Rafat Ali
In a rather surprising timing, the longtime CEO of TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) Thomas Clarke is leaving the company, it was announced this mo… Read more »
Industry Moves: Zynga Names EA's Brandon Barber Its New Marketing VP
By Tameka Kee
More evidence of how lucrative the social gaming space has become: EA digital media exec Brandon Barber has jumped ship to Zynga. Barber wil… Read more »
Earnings: TheStreet Posts $100k Net Loss; Revs Fall 17 Percent
By David Kaplan
While the recession has been great for financial news’ companies audience numbers, that traffic hasn’t translated into profits and revenues.… Read more »
LinkedIn Continues European Expansion With German Launch
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By Jemima Kiss: LinkedIn continues to buck the recession business trend of slimming down by expanding out, today announcing the launch of a… Read more »
Industry Moves: TheStreet.com Investor Quietly Leaves The Board
By Rafat Ali
Jay Hoag, the long-time general partner of PE/VC firm Technology Crossover Ventures, has quit the board of TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM), accor… Read more »
Industry Moves: LinkedIn Founder Hoffman Back As CEO; Yahoo’s Weiner Is Interim President
By Tameka Kee
In a major executive shuffle, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is reclaiming his role as CEO and bringing former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Jeff Weiner… Read more »
Industry Moves: Google’s Mobile Head Deep Nishar Leaves To Join LinkedIn
By Rafat Ali
Google’s head of its mobile efforts, Deep Nishar, has left the company, and is joining the heavily backed LinkedIn as VP of product manageme… Read more »
The Axe Swings Again: Veoh Lays Off 20 Percent; LinkedIn Cuts 10 Percent
By Tameka Kee
– Online video aggregator Veoh is cutting about 20 percent of its workforce — or about 20 employees. The layoffs will impact the San Diego… Read more »
Earnings: TheStreet.com’s Weak Q3 Forces Boardroom Shuffle
By Tameka Kee
Wall Street’s losses have turned partly into TheStreet.com’s gains, as traffic surged to an all-time high over the course of Q3 — and ad re… Read more »
LinkedIn Going For Hydrogen Winter: Raises Another $22.7 Million From McGraw-Hill, Among Others
By Rafat Ali
Forget the nuclear winter that Marc Andreessen talked about. The new thing is the Hydrogen bomb winter. And that’s what LinkedIn is preparin… Read more »
CNBC-LinkedIn Link Up On Content, Networking
Another media partnership for LinkedIn, which is striving to be more than a place to check contacts. This time it’s CNBC and the business so… Read more »
LinkedIn’s Hollywood PR Offensive: Cashing In On Economy’s Woes
By Rafat Ali
LinkedIn is on a Hollywood PR offensive, and positioning itself as the place where out-of-work and freelance creative professionals: it star… Read more »
With No IPO On Horizon, Facebook And LinkedIn Let Employees Sell Some Shares Early: Report
By Joseph Weisenthal
Employees of social networking giants Facebook and LinkedIn aren’t likely to get any liquidity event (IPO, sale) any time soon. By this poin… Read more »
TheStreet.com: CEO Clarke: Continued Focus On Acquisitions; Ad Market Holds Up
By Joseph Weisenthal
How did TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) manage to report a pretty solid quarter, in light of ad weakness and the market downdraft? CEO Tom Clarke… Read more »
Earnings: TheStreet.com Q2 Beats Top Line Estimates; Net Income In line
By Joseph Weisenthal
Considering all the natural challenges TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) is facing, this looks like a solid quarter… Q2 revenue came in at $19.7… Read more »
Social Gaming Firm Zynga Gets Its Big Round; $29M From KPCB; Buys Fbook App
By Rafat Ali
Just when Fortune did a long story on Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers not investing in the Internet and Web 2.0 world anymore, the venerabl… Read more »
Bain: LinkedIn Will Be Public In Three Years
By Joseph Weisenthal
LinkedIn is getting a lot of media attention following the big raise it announced last night… speaking on CNBC, Jeff Glass, partner at Bai… Read more »
LinkedIn Raised Its Big Round; $53 Million From Bain and Others; $1 Billion Valuation
By Rafat Ali
LinkedIn has closed its big round, which it had been working on for a while now in the midst of fielding some acquisition offers from strate… Read more »
@ Needham Digital Media Con: Tom Clarke: TheStreet.com To Rebrand Itself?; Going Hard After Bankrate
By Joseph Weisenthal
At the Needham Internet and Digital Media Conference, Thomas Clarke, CEO of TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM), gave an almost identical presentatio… Read more »
LinkedIn Close To Its ‘Nuclear Winter’ Round?
By Joseph Weisenthal
This has been in the works for a while and now drum beats suggest it’s close at hand. LinkedIn, the big business networking site, is close t… Read more »
LinkedIn Playing Catch Up In Europe
By Dianne See Morrison
Professional social network LinkedIn is getting serious about expanding outside the US to help grow its share of the social net market. In J… Read more »
Earnings: TheStreet.com Q1 Revs Up 31 Percent; Stock Falls On Lightness
By Joseph Weisenthal
Broadening financial info site TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) announced Q1 revenue of $18.9 million, a 31 percent year-over-year increase from $… Read more »
TheStreet.com Acquires $1.2M Stake In Social Net Geezeo, With An Option To Buy Outright
By David Kaplan
TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) has taken what it’s calling an “initial” equity stake worth $1.2 million in personal finance community site Geeze… Read more »
Cramer Signs On For Another Three Years At TheStreet
By Joseph Weisenthal
Putting an end to a series of stop-gap two-month employment contracts, TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) has signed its most famous employee — and… Read more »
TheStreet.com Expands Content Partnership With AOL; Better Play But Still No Pay
By Joseph Weisenthal
TheStreet.com and AOL (NYSE: TWX) are expanding their relationship with a three-year deal that includes the company’s homegrown personal fin… Read more »
LinkedIn Creates Version For Mobile Devices
By Tricia Duryee
LinkedIn, a network of 19 million professionals, is now providing a mobile version of its site available at m.linkedin.com from mobile Inter… Read more »
Earnings: TheStreet.com Q4 Revs Up 38 Percent; Net Income Up 19 Percent
By Joseph Weisenthal
TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) reported Q4 revenue of $19.9 million, a year-over-year increase of 38 percent from $14.4 million. Net income grew… Read more »
TheStreet.com Launches Its TMZ-ish Personal Finance Site MainStreet
By Rafat Ali
TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) has gone Fox Business on us: it has launched its MainStreet.com site, aimed at what it says: the general public o… Read more »
LinkedIn: Yes, We Had M&A Talks
By Rafat Ali
Not that this is a surprise, but LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has finally admitted it has been having talks with the “usual suspects” for a… Read more »
TheStreet.com: Bankers Financial Products Corp.: $3.1 Million Revs FH07
By Joseph Weisenthal
In November, financial news site TheStreet.com announced the acquisition of Bankers Financial Products Corporation, the parent company of Ba… Read more »
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