Corrected: AOL International Cuts Coming But Looking For Partners; ICQ For Sale
AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Tim Armstrong did a hurried Q&A session at the Paley Center this afternoon and then had to rush off to being the IPO roa… Read more »
@Paley Center: Bewkes On Justifying CNN’s Low Ratings
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I am at the Paley Center in midtown Manhattan, for their big yearly powwow on the future of global media and entertainment, listening to Kat… Read more »
With AOL Spinoff, TMZ To Move To Time Warner/Telepictures, As Expected; $25M 2008 Revenues
As we have been reporting for a while, celeb powerhouse site TMZ will now be part of Time Warner, after operating as a JV between AOL and Wa… Read more »
Time Warner Will Spin Off AOL On Dec. 9; ‘AOL’ Stock Symbol Returns
Updated: One more piece of separation anxiety has been settled: on Dec. 9, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) shareholders will get one share of common… Read more »
Former AOL Execs Falco, Grant To Draw Salary, Bonuses Through 2010
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As AOL (NYSE: TWX) heads toward its spinoff from Time Warner, the former team of Randy Falco (pictured, left) and Ron Grant, who were ousted… Read more »
Five Media Deals I
Mark May is a principal and senior internet and digital media research analyst at Needham & Company, LLC, a full-service growth-company inve… Read more »
CNN.com Pulls The Plug On Anchor Webcasts
Just two weeks after overhauling CNN.com, the news website is reorganizing its live webcast unit and doing away with its anchor-driven newsc… Read more »
@ Media & Money: Liberty’s Maffei: Comcast Will Be Winner In NBCU Deal
The big topic on day one of the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media & Money conference among major media execs was the possible NBC Universal (NYSE: GE)… Read more »
Bebo Cuts UK Jobs And Freezes Web TV Commissioning
By Mark Sweney and Mercedes Bunz: Bebo is cutting jobs at its UK operation and freezing commissions from its web TV production arm, which ha… Read more »
AOL’s Coming Big Layoffs & Restructuring Costs: $200 Million
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AOL (NYSE: TWX) announced about 100 layoffs earlier this week and more to come, along with continued restructuring. In an SEC filing, AOL (u… Read more »
Five Media Deals I’d Like To See Happen In 2010
Ken Sonenclar is a managing director at DeSilva + Phillips, LLC, a New York investment bank specializing in media.
This brutal year in M&A… Read more »
IDC: Global Online Ad Spend Has Bottomed Out — But Real Growth Won’t Show Until Q1
The feeling that “things are getting better” is becoming pretty pervasive among the conversations online ad execs are having, but the recent… Read more »
AOL Begins Layoffs; 100 To Be Let Go Today
AOL (NYSE: TWX) is laying off 100 staffers today, sources tell paidContent, confirming earlier reports by AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher and Vall… Read more »
Brody Rejoins AOL To Head Paid Services In Finance Re-Org; Gilt CEO Lyne Added To Post-Spin Board
Ned Brody is re-joining AOL (NYSE: TWX) as EVP of paid services, leaving his role as founder and CEO of ARPUinc. He’ll be picking up where h… Read more »
Updated: Time Layoffs Slice Into Essence Magazine’s Web Team
Updated: paidContent has confirmed that Time Inc.’s cuts have hit Essence magazine and Essence.com. The company confirmed that the web team… Read more »
Get Ready To Hear About How Great Magazines Are For Advertising
With the magazine business hurting, Hearst, Time Inc. and Wenner Media are teaming up for a little self promotion. Mediaweek reports. Read more »
News Group Taking Most Of The Hits In Time Inc. Layoffs; ‘Fortune Small Business’ Closed
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Last year’s round of cuts at Time Inc. came with a major restructuring. The 2009 version is “more targeted” with most of the cuts now underw… Read more »
Bewkes Memo: Extending TV Everywhere Model To Publishing
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Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has four top goals: taking advantage of scale and brands; cost cutting and keeping costs down; international expansi… Read more »
Bewkes Asks Analysts To Imagine Time Warner Without AOL. Pretty Please.
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It’s not quite the first day of the rest of their lives — that will come when the split is official — but Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes want… Read more »
Time Warner’s Revenues Down 6 Percent; AOL Tanks 23 Percent; Time Inc’s $100M Charge
Despite reporting a revenue drop of 6 percent to $7.1 billion in Q3, a profit drop of 38 percent and confirming a $100 million charge for Q4… Read more »
MSN Home-Page Overhaul Includes Big Push On Local
On the heels of big redesigns at rival portals Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and AOL (NYSE: TWX), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is unveiling what it is callin… Read more »
Time Inc Layoffs Begin; About 400-500; News Group First To Start
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The layoffs at Time Inc, intended to save about $100 million in costs, have begun, and the news group is the first, understandably. About 15… Read more »
AOL Keeping Its Venture Investments And AOL India
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Last week I reported, based on AOL’s spinoff SEC filing, that Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) may be retaining AOL India and AOL’s venture investmen… Read more »
Apple Singing New iTunes About Online TV Subscriptions?
The latest in subscription TV chatter: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is pitching network execs an iTunes-based monthly plan for $30, according to AllTh… Read more »
Time Inc’s Digital News Honcho Vivek Shah Leaving
Vivek Shah, the digital head at news division of Time Inc, is leaving the company after 15 years, paidContent has learned and confirmed from… Read more »
Updated: Time Inc. Cuts Coming Next Week; Staff Reduction Estimated At 540
The latest on anticipated Q4 cuts at Time Inc.: $100 million in savings is the goal, according to the NYT’s Stephanie Clifford. While we can… Read more »
AOL’s Patch Plans Big New York Expansion
AOL-owned hyper-local firm Patch Media is making a big push into New York state, with the launch of 11 sites in Long Island and Westchester… Read more »
Climax To NDTV Imagine Swayamvar: Time Warner Close To Buying Nearly 90% Stake
Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is close to acquiring a “very high level of holding” in general entertainment channe… Read more »
David Liu Is Out As AOL’s Global Messaging Head
David Liu is leaving his post as SVP for Global Messaging, Techcrunch reports. He’ll be making his exit next month, according to an e-mail L… Read more »
AOL Spinoff: Stuff That Time Warner Will Retain, Including Corp Jets & Venture Investments
More from AOL (NYSE: TWX) Inc’s spinoff filing this morning: some details on what all Time Warner will retain, besides the possibility of AO… Read more »
AOL’s Spinoff From Time Warner: The Process; AOL India May Be Retained By TW
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AOL (NYSE: TWX) Inc, the new about-to-be-spun-off unit from Time Warner, has filed an amended filing with SEC detailing some of the spin-off… Read more »
AOL’s Post-Spin Board Includes Former FCC Chair Powell, Former William Morris Head Wiatt
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AOL’s post-spin board of directors includes a dash of Hollywood, a hint of e-commerce and some Washington expertise. The nine directors slat… Read more »
Microsoft Ad Exec Peck Joining AOL
After recently jettisoning its Platform-A (NYSE: TWX) ad brand, AOL is putting another touch to its restructured European advertising operat… Read more »
Time Inc. Cuts Coming; Fortune Goes On A Diet
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Just as Bloomberg promises to turn BusinessWeek into a “true” weekly with more editorial, competitor Fortune is moving even further away fro… Read more »
Video: Steve Case On AOL Spin, Health Content Biz & More
Steve Case joined his business partner Ted Leonsis on CNBC this morning to talk about Revolution LLC and more. The former chairman of AOL Ti… Read more »
In Talks With Agencies, AOL Plays Up Its Role As Content Producer — While Downplaying The Ad Net
Chances are, most major media buyers are not likely to be impressed by seeing a media company’s TV studio. But when the company showing it o… Read more »
Time Warner To Start Selling Clearwire’s WiMax Dec. 1
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Add *Time Warner Cable* to the list of companies reselling Clearwire’s wireless broadband network. The cable operator said today that it wil… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: NME iPhone App; Fortumo Hong Kong; Bulkypix
– NME: IPC Media’s rock weekly has launched a £0.59 iPhone app featuring photography from the magazine. NME Radio launched on the app stor… Read more »
India’s NDTV In Talks With Time Warner and Astro To Replace NBC Universal
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Indian broadcaster NDTV is in talks with two overseas companies–Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and Malaysia’s Astro–to come in as an investor in… Read more »
MLBAM Averaged 350,000 Live, Paid Video Streams Per First-Round Game; 10 Percent On iPhone/iTouch
As baseball gears up for round two of the 2009 playoffs — the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers take the field tonight — we ha… Read more »
