| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Alisha Outridge: Redefining the Next Era of Tech, Education, and Health | Share
Share
Share
Share
Email
Alisha Outridge pioneers advancements that redefine technology’s role in business and society. Through her leadership in artificial intelligence, education reform, and healthcare innovation, she builds systems ... |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Pinocchio Oscars win helps stop-motion studio double in value | The studio behind the puppets for Guillermo del Toro’s reimagining of Pinocchio has more than doubled in value after winning an Oscar for its work.
Mackinnon and Saunders, which is based in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, helped clinch the ... |
| Feb 25, 2025 | Sawmills: $10 Million (Seed) Raised For Telemetry Data Management Platform | Sawmills, the first smart telemetry data management platform, emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed funding. This highly oversubscribed round was led by Team8, with participation from Mayfield and Alumni Ventures. Launched by enterp... |
| Jan 12, 2025 | The Surge of Mergers and IPOs: A New Era for Indian Corporates | The Indian corporate landscape is buzzing. Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and initial public offerings (IPOs) are driving a new wave of economic momentum. In 2024, M&A activity soared by 38%, reaching a staggering $109 billion. Thi... |
| Jan 11, 2025 | This Week In Techdirt History: January 5th – 11th | Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, the libel tourism of Devin Nunes was continuing to highlight the problems of weak anti-SLAPP laws. A patent troll got smacked down by an appeals court, while there was a twist in Oracle’s attacks on Google,... |
| Jan 10, 2025 | M&As, IPOs to continue momentum in 2025 | Mergers and acquisitions in India saw a 38 per cent increase in 2024 at $109 billion, with large conglomerates accounting for a significant chunk of the transactions, according to Kotak Investment Banking.
Deals by domestic corporates doubl... |
| Jan 4, 2025 | This Week In Techdirt History: December 29th – January 4th | Five Years Ago
This week at the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020, a new study shed light on just how racially biased facial recognition algorithms are, while we looked at how tracking college students everywhere they go on campus had becom... |
| Oct 18, 2024 | Now, Disney-Reliance JV Will Stream All Live Sports Content On Hotstar | SUMMARY
Disney India and Reliance’s Viacom received the approval from the CCI and the NCLT for the merger of their media assets, earlier this year
The combined entity will have 120 channels and two streaming apps and will reportedly have a ... |
| Oct 1, 2024 | MarTech Interview with Ryan Stewart, Head of Publisher Acquisition at MGID | Greetings Ryan, Can you provide a brief overview of your professional journey and how it led you to your current role as Head of Publisher Acquisition (North America) at MGID?
I’ve been in the media industry for more than 20 years and have ... |
| Sep 15, 2024 | Чтение на выходные: «YouTube. Как самый популярный видеохостинг завоевал мир?» Марка Бергена | Сегодня в рубрике книга про видеохостинг, который в настоящий момент работает в России медленно, но верно, а в большинстве стран мира все-таки быстро. Устраивайтесь поудобнее, пока ваши видео грузятся — представляем вашему вниманию книжную ... |
| Aug 31, 2024 | Paramount продаст VidCon британской компании Informa | О предстоящей сделке Business Insider узнал у анонимного источника. Ранее в этом году Paramount наняла банк Oaklins DeSilva + Phillips для изучения возможности продажи VidCon, сообщал Adweek в апреле.
Informa этот год, в свою очередь, посвя... |
| Jul 8, 2024 | Paramount Global to merge with Skydance Media | Paramount Global parent National Amusements and Skydance Media have agreed to merge less than a month after the sides abruptly ended deal talks.
Paramount, owner of Paramount Pictures movie and television studios, the CBS television network... |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Гендиректор «МТС Медиа» Елена Бальмонт покидает пост из-за конфликта с советом директоров | Как рассказали источники газеты «Коммерсантъ», у Бальмонт случился конфликт с советом директоров, а также с генеральным продюсером онлайн-кинотеатра Kion Игорем Мишиным. В МТС не стали комментировать ситуацию.
Елена Бальмонт вошла в совет д... |
| May 4, 2024 | Paramount CEO Bob Bakish to step down amid sale discussions | Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish is stepping down as the company explores a potential merger or sale. The media and entertainment giant is creating an Office of the CEO to replace Bakish, with three executives stepping in to lead the charge.... |
| May 2, 2024 | Sony, Apollo submit $26B cash bid for Paramount Global | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Sony and Apollo Global Management have submitted a $26 billion cash bid for Paramount Global, according to sources, in a joint bid that escalates the bidding war for the entertainment giant.
Why it ma... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Paramount CEO Bob Bakish to step down amid sale discussions | Paramount Global said Monday that CEO Bob Bakish is stepping down from his role, a major management shift at the media and entertainment company as it considers a potential merger or sale.
Paramount said in a statement on Monday that it is ... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | PARAMOUNT GLOBAL ANNOUNCES NEW LEADERSHIP | Bob Bakish Stepping Down
George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy, and Brian Robbins Appointed as Office of the CEO Building on Track Records of Success Leading Paramount's Business Units
NEW YORK, April 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors... |
| Apr 11, 2024 | Amazon, eyeing up AI, adds Andrew Ng to its board; ex-MTV exec McGrath to step down | If the decisions made by corporate boards of directors can indicate where a company wants to be focusing, Amazon’s board just made an interesting move. The company announced on Thursday that Andrew Ng, known for building AI at large tech co... |
| Dec 9, 2021 | Official Yellowstone Podcast Launches Today With Episode One With Presenting Sponsor Wynn Las Vegas | LAS VEGAS, Dec. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- 101 Studios, MTV Entertainment Studios and the Paramount Network have launched the "Official Yellowstone Podcast" today – listen to episode 1 HERE. Hosted by Yellowstone series star Jefferso... |
| Mar 25, 2021 | ViacomCBS extends 2-day decline to 29% after it launches $3 billion equity offering to fund streaming business | Shares of ViacomCBS extended its two-day decline to nearly 30% on Thursday after its planned $US3 ($4) billion equity offering.
Investors had fueled a more than 100% year-to-date rally in ViacomCBS prior to the offering.
ViacomCBS plans to ... |
| Mar 22, 2021 | ViacomCBS Announces Offerings of Class B Common Stock and Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock | NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 22, 2021--
ViacomCBS Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAC, VIACA) today announced that it has commenced concurrent offerings (the “Offerings”) of $2.0 billion of its Class B common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Class B co... |
| Feb 26, 2021 | ViacomCBS Announces Redemption of Approximately $2.0 Billion of Senior Notes | NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 26, 2021--
ViacomCBS Inc. (“ViacomCBS”) (NASDAQ: VIAC, VIACA) today announced that it would redeem all of its outstanding (i) 2.250% senior notes due February 4, 2022 (the “2.250% senior notes”), (ii) 3.375% s... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | ViacomCBS Reports Q4 and Full Year 2020 Earnings Results | NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 24, 2021--
ViacomCBS Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAC; VIACA) today reported financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2020.
Statement from Bob Bakish, President & CEO
“We started 2020 with clear goals: unloc... |
| Aug 14, 2019 | CBS and Viacom to Merge; Creates ViacomCBS | Entertainment giants CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS.A, CBS) and Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB) entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger.
This creates a combined company with more than $28 billion in revenue
The combined compa... |
| Apr 3, 2019 | Unlike AT&T, T-Mobile Embracing Viacom With New Mobile TV Service | Viacom today announced it has now reached an agreement with T-Mobile for its channels to be included in the carrier’s upcoming mobile TV service.
As part of the announcement, Viacom confirmed Comedy Central, BET, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount... |
| Jan 24, 2019 | Viacom to Acquire Pluto TV, for $340M | Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA) is to acquire Pluto TV, a Los Angeles, CA-based free streaming television service in U.S., for $340m in cash.
The acquisition will advance Viacom’s key strategic priorities, including expanding its presence a... |
| Jan 22, 2019 | Viacom buys the free video streaming service Pluto.tv for $340 million | Viacom is bucking the trend of launching new premium subscription-based entertainment offerings with its bid to acquire Pluto TV for $340 million in cash.
It’s a way to distribute the company’s once mighty-with-millennial properties like Ca... |
| Jul 24, 2018 | Andela Launches Pan-African Technology Hub In Kigali | Share this:
Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new... |
| Feb 7, 2018 | Viacom acquires VidCon, a gathering of YouTube stars and fans | Viacom has acquired VidCon, a move that seems designed to help the media giant connect with younger audiences.
Viacom’s blog post describes VidCon as “the premier event for the worldwide online video community,” drawing more than 30,000 att... |
| Sep 9, 2015 | Банкоматы, доверяющие смартфонам, как способ выживания для небольших банков | Внедряя современные технологии бескарточного взаимодействия с банкоматом, финансовые структуры рассчитывают наладить взаимоотношения со своими клиентами в возрасте до 35 лет. Последние активно уходят либо к прямым конкурентам — в другие, бо... |
| Sep 2, 2015 | Mondo: дерзкая инновация для Великобритании, обычный банковский сервис для России | Очаровывая регуляторов
Жарким июльским вечером Том Бломфилд (Tom Blomfield) вышел из здания Банка Англии в центре Лондонского Сити и тут же снял пиджак. Двадцатидевятилетний генеральный директор Mondo — цифрового банка для смартфонов, выход... |
| Jun 9, 2014 | Viacom takes a stake in web video network Defy Media | Viacom is the latest big media company to grab a piece of the increasingly hot web video networks that primarily produce video content for YouTube.
Today the company announced it has acquired a minority stake in web video network Defy Media... |
| Mar 18, 2014 | Google & Viacom settle longstanding YouTube lawsuit | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Cable network Viacom has reached an agreement to ... |
| Mar 18, 2014 | Google & Viacom settle longstanding YouTube lawsuit | Cable network Viacom has reached an agreement to end a longstanding copyright infringement lawsuit against Google, the companies announced today.
Viacom first filed a suit against the search giant due to its content popping up on Google-own... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | Twitter The Ad Player Wants To Push More TV Buttons, Adds Viacom To Its Partner List | The Cannes Lions mega advertising event is in full swing today in the south of France and while Twitter is marking its official presence there with a big sign at the entrance to the main venue (pictured here), and a big data keynote (led by... |
| Jul 18, 2012 | Viacom says there’s ‘no deal in sight’ to get channels back on DirecTV | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s hard to distinguish who’s behaving like the ... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Jon Stewart Blasts Viacom For Stupid Blackout; Viacom Sheepishly Turns Web Streams Back On | Last week, we wrote about Viacom’s really short-sighted decision to use its fans as hostages in a silly dispute with DirecTV over fees. To prevent any DirecTV customer from seeing any of its key shows, Viacom stopped streaming them online… ... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Is Cable TV Tuning In Its Own Obsolescence? | Cable TV may be in for a rude awakening from the dream-like hold it has managed to keep over consumers all these years. Recent content provider disputes among DirecTV and Viacom, along with legal decisions allowing websites like Aereo to st... |
| Jul 11, 2012 | Updated: Regardless of who wins the Viacom vs. DirecTV pissing match, consumers lose | Subscribers of DirecTV’s satellite television service are most definitely not getting their money’s worth as of today — that is, unless you just enjoy watching ultra dramatic fights between companies.
As of midnight, 26 Viacom channels went... |
| Jul 11, 2012 | Viacom pulls “The Daily Show” offline as a result of contract dispute | Viacom has removed Daily Show episodes, among others, from its official websites.
Viacom reader comments 177 with 120 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
So, Viac... |
| May 17, 2012 | Viacom, Time Warner kiss and make up over iOS app streaming | Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson reader comments 10 with 10 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Users of Time Warner Cable's iPad app will soon have access to a plethora of Viacom-own... |
| Apr 21, 2012 | Viacom study:15% of TV watching now done on tablets | Second only to watching on an actual television set
Another day, another study showing that tablets are about to dominate us all. Last week, we found out that 90% of mobile shopping was conducted on a tablet. Now we are finding out that tab... |
| Jan 22, 2012 | TCTV Debate: What SOPA & PIPA 2.0 Should Look Like | On Friday The House withdrew the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) from being put to a vote and the Senate postponed voting on its version of the bill, the Protect IP Act (PIPA). As the debate continues over the best way to shield copyrighted m... |
| Nov 15, 2011 | Viacom: Pass SOPA Or Spongebob Dies | It’s the most unintentionally hilarious video of the year… Viacom has put out one of the most ridiculous “anti-piracy” propaganda videos yet, complete with debunked stats, ridiculous claims, ominous music… and lots and lots of Viacom employ... |
| Mar 21, 2011 | Is a “huge wave” of M&As, financing deals about to hit Silicon Valley? | Investment banks are scrambling to open branches and make their presence known in the Silicon Valley area because they are expecting a “huge wave” of mergers and acquisitions and financing deals in tech and media over the next two years, Ke... |
| Feb 7, 2011 | Rainbow Group Receives Minority Investment from Viacom | Rainbow Group, a Loreto (AN)Italy-based kids animation and consumer products company, has received a minority investment of undisclosed amount from Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B).
Founded in 1995 by President Iginio Straffi, Rainbow produce... |
| Dec 23, 2010 | Viacom won’t get fooled again, drops Rock Band developer as music game sales falter | Music game developer Harmonix might have started the fire for the music game industry. But it’s stopped burning, leading Viacom to sell the critically acclaimed developer, the company announced today.
After taking off like a rocket in 2005 ... |
| Mar 24, 2010 | Viacom Bolsters YouTube's Copyright Defense -- By Accident | Viacom (VIA.B) thought it caught Google (GOOG) with its pants down last week, unveiling a series of damning emails (starting on page 22 of this PDF) that show Google openly flaunting copyright law through its video site YouTube. But the rea... |
| Mar 19, 2010 | Will Viacom's public airing of YouTube's dirty laundry change the Web forever? | The key issue at the heart of Viacom's case against Google and YouTube, filed in March 2007, concerns whether an Internet service that probably knows that files are traded or shown illicitly or without license there, deserves the "safe... |
| Mar 3, 2010 | Hulu 'losing' Stewart and Colbert is only a big deal to Hulu's ad revenue | Hulu has been increasing in popularity, and its ads are getting more valuable, but two of the video site's most popular shows, The Daily Show with John Stewart and The Colbert Report, are being pulled.
Hulu, a joint venture between NBC Univ... |
| Aug 28, 2009 | New Record: US Internet Users Watched 21.4 Billion Videos in July | July turned out to be the biggest month for watching Internet video yet. According to comScore, Internet users in the US watched 21.4 billion videos in July, up 88% from last year. Google’s YouTube streamed 9 billion of these videos, follow... |
| Apr 24, 2009 | Joost: For sale, or just fortifying? | The buzz in the online vid biz is that Joost, a once touted video portal, might be headed for a buyout. After two years of going it alone, the company is rumored to be in talks with Time Warner Cable and satellite providers for a possible d... |
| Jan 31, 2009 | Hollywood Studios Taking on Online Video | While sites like YouTube and Hulu may have rights to limited content from Hollywood, Studio 3 Networks plans to take online video to a new level with epix, a service that will offer in excess of 15, 000 films and television shows across mul... |
| Nov 2, 2008 | MTV to MySpace: Post Our Content, Please | From the moment people had the ability to upload video content to the Web, they took the liberty of posting anything and everything they could find – whether they owned the rights to the content or not. Unfortunately, this caused the people... |
| Jul 12, 2008 | The Issue Of Trust Is With Google, Not Viacom | Earlier this month Louis L. Stanton, the senior judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, ordered Google to hand over YouTube user log data to Viacom to help Viacom determine damages in their ongoing b... |
| Jan 8, 2008 | Viacom Spreads Its Video Love to Everyone But YouTube | In another move to strengthen the anti-YouTube coalition, Viacom is syndicating its videos (from Comedy Central, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon, and Atom Films, among other properties) to a whole new slew of video-sharing Websites. The new recip... |
| Oct 2, 2007 | Roundup: Jajah attacks Skype, Nokia-Navteq, YouTube’s Adsense, Yahoo’s lag | Here’s the latest action:
–Jajah goes after Skype’s turf on eBay
–Nokia buys Navteq, what does Google do?
–YouTube intros Adsense
–Yahoo lags on universal search
–Viacom backs DRM
–Technorati’s new CEO
–Costs of a start-up
Jajah tries to ex... |
| Mar 28, 2007 | Viacom Looks To Dominate Mobile Content Market | Viacom announced today that MTV Networks, BET Networks and Paramount Pictures have made significant changes to each of their mobile portfolios and they’ll soon be taking over the world. OK, I made the latter of that up, but they are trying ... |
| Mar 13, 2007 | Viacom Drops a $1 Billion Nuke on Google | They said that Google’s acquisition of YouTube would be the act that saved it from the fate of Napster – lawsuit oblivion.
And they may have been wrong, if today’s $1 billion lawsuit is a sign of things to come. Viacom, the plaintiff, has b... |
| Mar 13, 2007 | Viacom files $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google | Viacom, the giant owner of video content, has sued YouTube and Google for “massive intentional copyright infringement” of Viacom’s properties.
It is one of the biggest challenges yet to what content owners say is a foot-dragging policy by G... |
| Feb 20, 2007 | Joost, BitTorrent offering new ways for you to get video | Joost and BitTorrent, two start-ups focused on bringing video to your home using cheap peer-to-peer communication networks, are making progress.
Joost, the company launched by the co-founders of popular Internet phone company Skype, announc... |
| Feb 2, 2007 | Viacom orders YouTube to remove more than 100,000 video clips | Viacom, owner of a vast stable of videos, has requested that YouTube remove more than 100,000 unauthorized video clips from its site.
This comes after months of negotiation between Google and other entertainment content owners like Viacom. ... |
| Sep 11, 2006 | Digg woes, Segway’s expansion, Second Life hacked, Chinese grass & more | (Update: Corrected name of company acquired by News Corp. It was Newroo)
Roundup of latest Silicon Valley action:
One of Digg’s top diggers, p9, has quit, and Netscape is grinning — When Kevin Rose, founder of the news-ranking site, Digg, s... |
| 2006 | LA Times Goes Ape With Media Industry Predictions | Looking at the media year ahead,
the LA Times christens Google the new 800-pound gorilla – and also the Big Bad Wolf –
of the media business. It’s an extraordinary article that predicts mega-billion dollar
wheeling and dealing in the media ... |
| Fundador do Netmovies: ‘História foi turbulenta sim, mas está mal contada’ | A NetMovies disputou o título de assunto mais falado entre os empreendedores na última segunda-feira com a lista de selecionados do Start-Up Brasil, porque o “Estadão” divulgou uma matéria polêmica com o título: “NetMovies desiste de concor... |
| ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish to Participate in the Virtual Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference | NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 23, 2021--
ViacomCBS Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAC; VIACA) today announced that Bob Bakish, President and Chief Executive Officer, will participate in a question and answer session during the virtual Morgan Stanley Techn... |
| Sony и Майкл Джексон созрели для покупок | Мировые лидеры музыкальной индустрии продолжают консолидировать бизнес. Сегодня стало известно, что медиакомпания Viacom продает свое подразделение по выпуску CD и продаже музыкальных лицензий Famous Music корпорации Sony. Сумма сделки сост... |
| ViacomCBS Prices Offerings of Class B Common Stock and Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock | NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 24, 2021--
ViacomCBS Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAC, VIACA) today announced the pricing of concurrent offerings (the “Offerings”) of 20,000,000 shares of its Class B common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Class B comm... |