Staci D. Kramer
Dec 8, 2011 8:17 AM
Some “strategic” investments and partnerships leave you scratching your head looking for the rationale—and questioning the viability of a real payoff for either party. That’s not the case when it comes to the $38.5 million bet J.C. Penney is making by acquiring 16.6 percent of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE:…
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David Kaplan
Jun 9, 2010 12:30 PM
Twitter appeared to be down, so when Martha Stewart took the stage with AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher and Arianna Huffington, she was able to focus solely on the questions, jokes and advice the trio traded at Digitas’ NewFront event. Since it’s Internet Week in New York, the talk started about the…
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David Kaplan
Mar 5, 2010 8:30 AM
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) held its advertising upfront yesterday and unlike the traditional TV upfront events that are getting under way, the focus here was the company’s range of cross-platform offerings, all of which are tied together with social media elements. The centerpiece of the presentation was a…
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David Kaplan
Jul 29, 2009 8:53 AM
A soft retail market and the generally poor state of magazine advertising were reflected in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s earnings in Q2. The company swung to a $6.1 million loss on a $5.5 million impairment charge tied to an equity investment. And while total revenues fell 27 percent to $56.9…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jul 24, 2009 9:15 AM
Some news from AOL (NYSE: TWX) as CEO Tim Armstrong moves from a media tour that started with a wave of interviews and wound up on stage at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech, to an all-hands staff meeting in Dulles today to explain some of the details in the latest plan to…
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Rafat Ali
Apr 13, 2008 5:26 PM
From the filings and stories, executive salary watch for some media companies:—MSLO: Martha Stewart, founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), received $2.06 million in compensation for 2007 while company CEO Susan Lyne received a little over $1 million as the company returned to profitability, reports AP, citing the…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Mar 17, 2008 5:44 PM
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) has filed its 10-K, offering some fresh details on a few of its recent deals, as well as its organic efforts to boost its digital business: —WeddingWire: The company says it paid $5 million for its 40 percent stake in the wedding planning-community site…
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Staci D. Kramer
Mar 10, 2008 11:09 AM
Martha Stewart, Rupert Murdoch and the Kindle from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). If you told me this morning I’d have been able to fit these three into the same post, I’d have asked when I started writing for The Onion. (Disclosure: I’m a Kindle user, and it’s not a review unit.)…
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