CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is acquiring Clicker, the self-styled “TV Guide” for online video, and is installing Jim Lanzone, Clicker’s co-founder and CEO as its new president, succeeding Neil Ashe. As CEO of CNET Networks, Ashe helped steer the tech media company’s $1.8 billion sale to CBS in June 2008…

If you’re looking for post-acquisition personnel drama a la MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) or frustration a la Dodgeball-Google (NSDQ: GOOG), don’t read this. Aside from losing control over the timing, so far Neil Ashe’s decision to leave CBS (NYSE: CBS) looks to be as simple as it gets: he sold at…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) started the year with the departure of Quincy Smith as head of digital and will start the next one without Neil Ashe, president of CBS Interactive, paidContent has confirmed.

The final March Madness stats are in for CBS (NYSE: CBS), CBBSports.com and the NCAA. As is usually the case, the bulk of the viewing—roughly 75 percent—happens in the first round and drops off from there as the field narrows. I’m still parsing the numbers but here are a few…

*CBS* Interactive’s move to curtail its dealings with ad networks effective today represents one of the key ways Cnet has influenced its parent since being acquired for $1.8 billion last year. Madison (named for the avenue), the in-house online ad serving platform that CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) will rely on…

Quincy Smith came to *CBS* in late 2006 to make deals and make them he did—with just about everyone but Hulu. He had been advising CEO Leslie Moonves on corporate internet strategy as an investment banker for Allen & Co. In an interview with paidContent Wednesday afternoon about “the worst…

Now that the merger is complete, it’s time for CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) to get onto the business of “changing the world,” in the words of newly named division President Neil Ashe. As we wrote earlier, the unit is dividing into specific verticals. Among them: News & Technology, headed by…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) has announced a reorg of its interactive unit, after completing the big acquisition deal of CNET: the newly expanded and integrated CBS Interactive division will have Quincy Smith as its CEO, and Neil Ashe, the former CEO of CNET (NSDQ: CNET), as its president. The newly expanded…

Spent a few minutes talking earlier today with Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), and Neil Ashe, CEO of CNET (NSDQ: CNET), about this morning’s news. Given that the $1.8 billion deal is far from closing, the two hewed close to the talking points of the day and…

Two companies under pressure from outsiders are looking to strengthen their ties: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and CNET will announce a new content-sharing and ad agreement later today, reports Kara at AllThingsD. Basically, more CNET tech content will be distributed across Yahoo sites, and the tech news site will be a…

CNET (NSDQ: CNET) CEO Neil Ashe obviously has a lot on his plate right now, but fortunately he was able to take a few minutes to discuss business at Citi’s 18th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference. The event marked the first chance Ashe got to address the recent…

Plagued by anemic page-growth, CNET (NSDQ: CNET) plans to address that problem in a roundabout way. This week, it will begin releasing more of its content to outside websites, and the company doesn’t want to call it widgets, or, well, traditional syndication. This content will be ad-supported, but more than…

Thanks to a superb rally of analogies, the Future Of Business Media conference momentarily sounded like a seminar on the groceries industry. But it was an important and amusing metaphorical framework for understanding the way rivals in the tech business media sector are squaring off (or not)... - Om Malik:…

CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks reported its Q3 earnings today, and also announced the sales of Webshots. CEO Neil Ashe was pretty clear in the earnings conference call: he is ready to look at other brands the portfolio and sell them off too, if needed. Which other sites within CNET’s portfolio…