Ingrid Lunden
Feb 3, 2012 10:20 AM
Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing massive growth in mobile, but it still hasn’t tried out advertising, its most effective route to revenues, on this platform. That’s not to say it won’t. But…
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Jeff Roberts
Feb 2, 2012 1:37 PM
Late last year, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) relaunched its tech blog to add more reporters and more video—in hopes of pulling in more ad revenue. That followed an even larger buildup of its business and finance blog, Deal Book. Now, the company will be giving the same treatment…
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Daniel Frankel
Feb 2, 2012 12:34 PM
Nickelodeon, usually a ratings star, has been on a slide recently, and several analysts this week put the blame on Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). On Thursday, Viacom (NYSE: VIA) CEO Philippe Dauman weighed in.
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Robert Andrews
Feb 2, 2012 10:05 AM
Apartment-letting site Airbnb will get investment, endorsement and distribution from the publisher of Europe’s most-read newspaper.
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Jeff Roberts
Feb 2, 2012 10:05 AM
Higher online circulation was a small bright spot in an otherwise gloomy earnings report for the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), which is still looking for a CEO who can implement a comprehensive digital strategy.
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Robert Andrews
Feb 2, 2012 9:47 AM
Two European companies are this week taking venture capital in the games space…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 2, 2012 8:44 AM
Sony’s new president and CEO has quite a task on his hands. A day after Kazuo Hirai was appointed to replace Howard Stringer, who remains as chair, he announced the company plummeted in to the red by 320 percent.
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Robert Andrews
Feb 2, 2012 5:58 AM
Facebook has made a $3.1 billion business from a social advertising sector many, even it, concede is experimental and unproven. Now it must find that proof. But experimenting on Wall Street, as well as Madison Avenue, could prove challenging.
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Amanda Natividad
Feb 1, 2012 11:59 PM
» Facebook’s biggest risks explained (ReadWriteWeb) » Is Facebook’s IPO the start of something, or the end? (GigaOm) » Zuckerberg claims “We don’t build services to make money” (Forbes) » IPO filing says that Zynga accounted for 12% of Facebook’s revenue in 2011 (TNW) » From founders to decorators, Facebook…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 1, 2012 6:28 PM
Facebook‘s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of people going there to take a peek at the social network’s numbers. That traffic may well be matched by the weight of numbers in the filing itself. Here’s a look…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 1, 2012 4:51 PM
It took the whole day, but Facebook finally—as many expected—filed its S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission for its long-awaited IPO. While guesstimates for how much Facebook would try to raise ranged from $5 billion to $10 billion, in the end, it looks like it is the lower of that…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 1, 2012 6:57 AM
AOL (NYSE: AOL) today reported that its strategy to turn around its advertising business is definitely paying off, with sale up by 10 percent on the year before. But while its figures beat Wall Street estimates that wasn’t enough to make up for declines in subscriptions and other areas, resulting…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 31, 2012 6:30 PM
Some fallout from the various asset offloads we have seen from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the last year: Synchronica, which bought Nokia’s messaging business for $25 million in June 2011, has itself become a takeover target—apparently because it will not be able to make payments on money still owed to…
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Laura Hazard Owen
Jan 31, 2012 6:10 PM
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) says unit sales of print books grew by “double digits” in Q4 compared to last year. That “is impressive given the shift to Kindle,” said CFO Tom Szkutak in the investor call following this afternoon’s disappointing earnings report.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 31, 2012 4:52 PM
Facebook’s much-anticipated IPO looks to be coming ever-closer, with a new report out with further details of what we will see come Wednesday morning.
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Laura Hazard Owen
Jan 31, 2012 4:08 PM
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) disappointed investors by reporting Q4 2011 revenues of $17.4 billion this afternoon, up 35 percent from a year ago but missing analyst estimates. Net income slid to $177 million on earnings of $0.38 per share, down 58 percent from this time last year, and shares were down…
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Alexis Madrigal
The Atlantic
Jan 31, 2012 3:34 PM
Facebook is widely expected to go public in the very near future with a valuation north of $75 billion. It’s a moment that tech watchers have been anticipating for half a decade and will make millionaires out of many, many early Facebook employees.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 31, 2012 5:03 AM
BSkyB’s financials are still improving, but the company is now flaunting a range of new internet upgrades to try containing subscriber growth slow-down and potential threats from newcomers.
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Jeff Roberts
Jan 30, 2012 9:50 AM
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. posted lower than expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 after incurring special charges related to workforce restructuring and asset write-downs. A report also showed that its newspaper empire continues to struggle but that its digital business is up 11 percent for the year.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 30, 2012 4:41 AM
France’s national La Tribune newspaper said Monday’s edition was its last daily print copy, as its owner’s sale to a regional publisher and an online ad group was announced.
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