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Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back—that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his tweets, snarky or not, are usually spot on. (He ...
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Bill Gates
MySpace Music has now finalized a global licensing deal with the labels represented by Merlin , according to details tipped Friday to Digital Music News. Both companies confirmed the relationship, thanks to resolution on a major ...
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MySpace
MySpace Music has now finalized a global licensing deal with the labels represented by Merlin , according to details tipped Friday to Digital Music News. Both companies confirmed the relationship, thanks to resolution on a major ...
Online
MySpace
No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media (NBM) but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkelstein’s News Communications, paidContent has learned from multiple sources. We have also learned ...
Home Theater
Rupert Murdoch
Sony keeps flip-flopping over adding music downloads to the PlayStation Network (PSN). After scrapping plans to add a music store to the gaming network—complete with the ability for gamers to port tracks to the handheld ...
Hardware
Sony
iTunes
» Five ex-Googlers are putting working full time on what they hope will be the next big thing, Brizzly. [ LA Times ]
» Hoping to be the Canadian Pandora, Listen.fm buys up the remnants of Streamzy. [ ...
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Pandora
Intel
Michael White, the PepsiCo vet who takes over as president and CEO of DirecTV ( NYSE: DTV ) Jan. 1, could make more than $35 million during his three-year contract, according to an SEC filing . His base salary is $1.5 million a year ...
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Sony and Barnes & Noble may be launching two of the most high-profile challengers to Amazon’s Kindle, but supply chain challenges could keep both companies from denting Kindle’s popularity this holiday season. (Then ...
Hardware
Sony
Kindle
Amazon
Offer-based ads seemed to be the secret to monetizing social games—and social network users, in general—that standard banner ads couldn’t provide. But amid ongoing accusations that the ads actually ...
Online
Times Publishing Co. has sold Governing magazine to e.Republic , a publisher of titles focused on state and local government and education. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The sale comes a few months after The Economist Group ...
Other
The Daily Beast has named publishing vet Stephen Colvin as the site’s president. Colvin CNET was president and CEO of lad mag purveyor Dennis Publishing for 11 years, will oversee all aspects of the business, the company announced. He ...
Other
Newspaper websites’ ad revenue got progressively worse in Q3, as the declines reached nearly 17 percent to $623 million, according to the latest Newspaper Association of America stats. In comparison, newspaper sites’ Q308 ...
Other
Quinstreet , the Foster City, CA-based vertical media and marketing firm that recently bought Insure.com and Internet.com, has filed for an IPO to raise as much as $250 million, according to its S1 . Last month Quin paid $16 million for ...
Other
The morning-after paperwork from eBay ( NSDQ: EBAY ) as control of Skype shifts to a private investment group led by Silver Lake Partners offers a look at the post-split financials for both companies—and the kind of detail on Skype we aren’t likely to see much of now that it’s ...
Software
Skype
eBay
Adam Cahan is the CEO of Auditude, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based technology company that provides an ad platform for video management and monetization. He has also worked at MTV Networks ( NYSE: VIA ), Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ), NBC Universal ( ...
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BBC Worldwide is losing the president of its fast-growing U.S. operation, Garth Ancier. No news on his next role, but he’s staying on as a non-exec director.
Deadline Hollywood has Ancier’s exit memo to staff, in which he says: “Next year, our digital story will get even ...
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keep bankrolling Babelgum running out? The video service is
shutting its Dublin HQ and Nice office , paidContent:UK has learned ...
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Babelgum Scaling Down By Closing HQ, Italian Office
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Even before Tim Armstrong joined Time Warner ( NYSE: TWX ) to take AOL independent, the company was mixing in new brands with the familiar acronym. He’s pushed that strategy even harder, to the point where the question is what ...
Online
AOL
It’s taken years to unravel the tracking stocks and ownerships stemming from Liberty Media ( NSDQ: LINTA ), but the new, more-than-a satellite-company DirecTV ( NYSE: DTV ) is ready for its debut following shareholder votes ...
Mobile
Harbinger Capital Partners continues to slice its stake of the New York Times ( NYSE: NYT ). Co., selling its second batch of stock in two months. The activist hedge fund that spent more than a half-billion accumulating nearly 20 ...
