Staci D. Kramer
Jul 1, 2011 5:00 AM
Hollywood upstart TheWrap.com is getting a leading role with Reuters (NYSE: TRI). The wire service and the startup founded by Sharon Waxman in 2009 are expanding their relationship, with TheWrap replacing The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard as Reuters’ lead provider of entertainment news effective today. One result is a serious…
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Rafat Ali
Apr 25, 2010 11:59 PM
TheWrap.com, the Hollywood business focused blog started by former NYT Hollywood correspondent Sharon Waxman, has closed a $2 million second round of funding, she tells us. The round was led by Maveron, the VC firm co-founded by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and other first round investors. The site raised $500K…
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Staci D. Kramer
Apr 8, 2010 4:16 PM
Newser CEO Patrick Spain fires back at Sharon Waxman and TheWrap.com in a formal response to Thursday’s cease-and-desist letter. Spain contends the whole situation could have been resolved through a “civil conversation” with Newser’s editor in chief (Caroline Miller, unidentified in the letter), saying it’s “not a legal controversy but…
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Staci D. Kramer
Apr 7, 2010 7:54 PM
Updated: Newser’s Michael Wolff’s response below. There’s the legal language of a formal cease and desist letter like the one TheWrap.com just sent Newser LLC CEO Patrick Spain demanding an immediate stop to the controversial news aggregator’s use of the Hollywood news site’s work. (Full text embedded below.) And there’s…
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Tameka Kee
Jan 26, 2009 1:27 PM
TheWrap.com, the entertainment news site founded by former NYT Hollywood correspondent Sharon Waxman, is now live. The launch is backed by an undisclosed amount of funding from Seattle-based Maveron; Waxman picked up $500,000 in seed funding last August from private investors. The site aims to take on established publications like…
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