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| 14.02.2025 | Price Hikes, Enshittification Trigger 700K Customer Losses At Disney+, ESPN+ | Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV.
That has involved chasing pointless “growth of growth’s s... |
| 23.01.2025 | Analysts Think America’s Two Biggest And Shittiest Cable Giants (Comcast, Charter) Could Merge Under Trump 2.0 | Despite a lot of bullshit about how Trump is super “populist,” “supports antitrust reform,” and will “carry on the legacy of monopoly busters like Lina Khan,” none of that has ever been true. Trump’s first administration was jam packed with... |
| 10.01.2025 | Prepare For A Whole Bunch Of Pointless, Harmful Mergers In Streaming By Media Executives All Out Of Original Ideas | Early last year, streaming company Fubo filed an antitrust lawsuit against Disney, Fox, and Warner Brothers Discovery after the three companies decided to launch their own joint streaming live sports venture. Fubo, in the lawsuit, claims th... |
| 08.01.2025 | Consumers Cut Streaming Services In 2024 After Endless Price Hikes And Enshittification | Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV.
That has involved chasing pointless “growth of growth’s s... |
| 07.01.2025 | Disrupting the Connectivity Dilemma: Ben Edmond's Connectbase on Redefining Telecom with "Location Truth" | DI PRS 157
Ben Edmond, CEO of Connectbase, joins the Disruption Interruption podcast to discuss global connectivity challenges and the game-changing impact of "Location Truth." Discover how precise data and transparency drive inno... |
| 27.12.2024 | Richard Parsons, prominent Black executive who led Time Warner and Citigroup, dies at 76 | NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Parsons, one of corporate America's most prominent Black executives who held top posts at Time Warner and Citigroup, died Thursday. He was 76.
Parsons, who died at his Manhattan home, was diagnosed with multiple myel... |
| 19.12.2024 | Not Even Sesame Street Is Safe From David Zaslav And Time Warner Discovery Incompetence | We’ve documented in detail how the whole AT&T–>Time Warner–>Warner Brothers Discovery merger process has been a pointless mess, resulting in no limits of layoffs and damage to the underlying brands. What was supposed to be a gambi... |
| 07.12.2024 | Datapad: The Future of Data Analytics is Here | In the bustling world of startups, Datapad emerges as a beacon of innovation. This Istanbul-based company has raised over $500,000 to revolutionize how businesses interact with their data. With the rise of artificial intelligence, Datapad i... |
| 05.12.2024 | Datapad raises $500K for AI-driven KPI monitoring | AI startup Datapad has raised over $500,000.The Istanbul-based startup has built AI Analyst Agents to replace traditional data analytics dashboards with proactive and constant KPI monitoring.
The experienced founding team, Cem Ruso (who exi... |
| 19.11.2024 | Streaming TV Enshittification Will Continue Until Morale Improves | We’ve documented in detail how the whole AT&T–>Time Warner–>Warner Brothers Discovery merger process has been a pointless mess, resulting in no limits of layoffs and damage to the underlying brands. What was supposed to be a gambi... |
| 13.08.2024 | Time Warner Discovery Merger’s Latest Victim: Cartoon Network’s Entire Web Presence | You might recall that AT&T’s $200 billion acquisition of Time Warner and DirecTV was supposed to transform the telecom giant into a modern internet video advertising superpower. Instead, after a massive amount of debt and endless bumbli... |
| 12.08.2024 | Like Clockwork, Paramount/CBS Cuts 18% Of Workforce After Skydance Merger | Last month we noted how the brunchlords in charge of Paramount (CBS) decided to eliminate decades of MTV News journalism and Comedy Central history as part of their ongoing and utterly mindless “cost saving” efforts. It was just the latest ... |
| 25.07.2024 | After Layoffs And Endless Chaos, The AT&T, Time Warner, Discovery Mergers Come To A Whimpering, Pathetic Finale | The utterly pointless, decade-long madness that was the Time Warner Discovery series of mergers has come to its pathetic conclusion. Basically announcing that the whole mess was a waste of time, company executives last week quietly announce... |
| 19.07.2024 | The Ongoing Battle for Net Neutrality: Telecom Industry Strikes Back Against Consumer Protections | In a recent development, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a temporary hold on the implementation of popular net neutrality rules, marking a potential victory for the telecom industry in their efforts to dismantle crucial consum... |
| 15.07.2024 | Bumbling Time Warner CEO David Zaslav: What U.S. Media REALLY Needs Is More Mindless Consolidation And Deregulation | By now we’ve well established that the AT&T–>Time Warner–>Discovery series of media mergers were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived.
The utterly senseless saga burned through hundreds of billio... |
| 10.07.2024 | NFL Hit With $4.8 billion Verdict In NFL Sunday Ticket Antitrust Case | On any given Sunday there’s simply no shortage of U.S. antitrust violations, where some giant predatory corporation leverages its consolidated power to derail price competition and harm consumers.
But because U.S. antitrust enforcement is a... |
| 29.04.2024 | Discovery CEO Zaslav Gets A Big Fat Raise Despite Being Terrible At His Job | By now we’ve well established that this particular series of media mergers — which began with AT&T’s doomed acquisition of Time Warner and ended with Time Warner’s subsequent spin off and fusion with Discovery — were some of the dumbest... |
| 23.04.2024 | The Future Of Streaming TV: More Pointless Mergers And Making It Harder To Cancel | Major TV providers lost another 5 million paying TV subscribers last year, as users increasingly jump from fat and expensive cable bundles, to streaming. At the same time, a lot of the executives and bad ideas that plagued the traditional c... |
| 22.03.2024 | Paul F. Washington Appointed as President & CEO for the Society for Corporate Governance | The Society for Corporate Governance, the leading organization for corporate governance in the United States, today announced the appointment of Paul Washington as its new CEO, effective April 15, 2024.
NEW YORK, March 22, 2024 /PRNewswire-... |
| 14.03.2024 | Gerald Levin, former Time Warner CEO behind disastrous mega-merger, dead at 84 | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Turner Broadcasting Chairman and President Ted Turner, left, and Time Warner Chairman and CEO Gerald Levin pose for photographers prior to a news conference on Sept. 22, 1995.
SAN FRANCISO >> Gerald Levin, who led Tim... |
| 09.12.2017 | This is the future if net neutrality is repealed; the creeping, costly death of media freedom | David Gorodyansky Contributor
David Gorodyansky is the CEO and co-founder of AnchorFree, maker of privacy app Hotspot Shield.
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The Internet Bill of Rights is just one piece of our moral obligations
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| 07.12.2017 | Mashable Sold. Cheap. | Tech site Mashable, one of Scotland’s great digital success stories, has been sold to publisher Ziff Davis.
The deal reportedly closed for less than $50 million well below the $250 million valuation that Mashable received as recently as Mar... |
| 28.11.2017 | Time-Warner’s Turner opts for AWS as its preferred cloud provider | All of the hyper-scale cloud providers love to tout their new customer acquisitions: Google talking about Spotify; Microsoft signing up various Adobe services for Azure; or AWS working with the likes of GE. That’s a sign of how competitive ... |
| 20.06.2017 | Snapchat Users To See More Ads, Original Shows As $100 Million Time Warner Deal Pushes Through | Vincent Lanaria, Tech Times 20 June 2017, 08:06 am
Snapchat will soon get more TV-like shows along with numerous ads, as Snap Inc. and Time Warner ink a two-year agreement worth $100 million.
This doesn't come as much of a surprise, though.... |
| 20.06.2017 | TechCrunch: Time Warner потратит $100 млн на создание шоу для владельца Snapchat | Медиакорпорация Time Warner заключила соглашение с компанией Snap (владеет Snapchat) на создание шоу для владельца мессенджера, говорится в совместном сообщении компаний. В Time Warner планируют вложить в разработку роликов около $100 млн, ... |
| 18.06.2017 | NEA Joins $40M Funding for Conviva | Conviva, elevating the way OTT businesses use data-driven intelligence, today announced a funding round of $40M from new and existing investors. The round included new investor Future Fund with participation from existing investors NEA (New... |
| 18.06.2017 | Conviva Raises $40M Funding | Conviva, elevating the way OTT businesses use data-driven intelligence, today announced a funding round of $40M from new and existing investors. The round included new investor Future Fund with participation from existing investors NEA (New... |
| 15.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, February 15 | THE BOLD AND THE DISCIPLINED
Soft-Tress: The big news in Term Sheet’s world this morning is SoftBank Group’s after-hours acquisition of Fortress Investment Group for $3.3 billion. Takes are rolling in hot and fast! (“Neither cheap nor wise!... |
| 19.01.2017 | Netflix calls out HBO for not letting subscribers binge on new shows | Enlarge
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| 19.11.2016 | Funding roundup - week ending 11/19/16 | FanDuel and DraftKings merged; Facebook bought FacioMetrics; Hulu acquired The Video Genome Project
Facebook acquired FacioMetrics, a developer of vision-based customer solutions. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
FacioMetrics ... |
| 01.11.2016 | Hulu Live TV Service Taps Fox And Disney: Skinny Bundle Shaping Up Nicely | Alexandra Burlacu, Tech Times 01 November 2016, 08:11 pm
Hulu is launching a live TV service next year, and it has just teamed up with 21st Century Fox and Disney to deliver more than 35 TV channels.
With the new deals, Hulu's upcoming live... |
| 29.10.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 10/29/16 | AT&T bought Time Warner; Groupon acquired LivingSocial; Google purchased Eyefluence
The New York Times Company acquired product recommendation site The Wirecutter and its sibling, The Sweethome. No financial terms of the deal were discl... |
| 22.10.2016 | AT&T has $80 billion deal to purchase Time Warner Inc. (and with it, HBO) | Enlarge
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| 26.09.2016 | Science, tech and geek culture site Inverse raises $6M | Inverse, a new-ish digital media startup founded by Bleacher Report’s Dave Nemetz, is announcing that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding.
The Inverse site launched in August 2015 and covers a mix of science, technology and enterta... |
| 08.08.2016 | Hulu will soon end its free streaming options | Hulu reader comments 181 with 109 posters participating
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| 03.08.2016 | Time Warner Buys 10 Percent Stake In Hulu: Here Are The Channels Subscribers Can Soon Live-Stream | Lauren Keating, Tech Times 03 August 2016, 01:08 pm
Hulu just landed an investment deal that will make it even more valuable as a business and among subscribers.
Time Warner announced on Wednesday that it agreed to buy a 10 percent stake in... |
| 25.04.2016 | Kamcord bags $10M led by Time Warner to tackle live-streaming like a media business | Today is a big day for Y Combinator graduate Kamcord, after the San Francisco-based startup announced a $10 million Series C round led by Time Warner, and a move that expands its streaming focus from mobile games to any app.
Kamcord last ra... |
| 25.04.2016 | Daily funding roundup - April 25, 2016 | SIRIN Labs closed $72M Series A round; Helium raised $20M; Kamcord nabbed $10M funding
azeti Networks AG, a provider of remote asset management software serving the IoT market, closed a $4 million dollar round of funding led by Wim Elfrink,... |
| 10.02.2016 | Slow start for HBO Now with just 800,000 subscribers | Harrison Weber reader comments 209 with 128 posters participating
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| 12.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 12, 2015 | TigerText raised $50M; Eyefluence secured $14M; Flexe landed $4.4M
Flexe, provider of on-demand warehousing, today announced that it has raised $4.4 million in seed funding, which added to $1.9 million in previous investments brings the sta... |
| 29.07.2015 | Verizon Offers HBO Now To Its Internet Customers: Free Trial, Monthly Rate, And Other Details | Nicole Arce, Tech Times 29 July 2015, 08:07 am
Verizon has sealed the deal on a partnership with Time-Warner's HBO to offer the latter's Internet-only streaming service HBO Now.
The partnership was announced by both companies in a press rel... |
| 14.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 14, 2015
Early-Stage Venture-Capital Investors
Early-Stage Venture-Capital Investors | Realty Mogul secured $35M; HackerRank bagged $7.5M; Fanduel raised $275M
Realty Mogul, an online marketplace that makes real estate investing fast and frictionless raised a $35 million Series B financing round. The round was led by Sorenson... |
| 16.05.2015 | AOL turns 30: Here’s a look back, from ‘You’ve Got Mail’ to Verizon’s $4.4B deal | Thirty years: the first birthday where you stop keeping track.
This month*, AOL turns 30. The one-time crown prince of media is looking a bit tired these days, probably yawning while being acquired this week by Verizon for $4.4 billion in c... |
| 16.05.2015 | AOL turns 30: Here’s a look back, from ‘You’ve Got Mail’ to Verizon’s $4.4B deal | 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!
Thirty years: the first birthday where you stop k... |
| 17.03.2015 | HBO And Cablevision Unite To Offer HBO Now To Cablevision Subscribers | Christian de Looper, Tech Times 17 March 2015, 07:03 am
HBO has announced that Cablevision will be the first pay-TV provider to offer HBO's new streaming service, HBO Now, to its broadband Internet customers.
It was recently announced that ... |
| 13.03.2015 | Apple's HBO NOW exclusive is the real Game of Thrones | As the dust settles from this week's big Apple reveal, one question lingers: Who gains more from exclusive distribution of new streaming service HBO NOW? I don't know what the device maker paid for the privilege, but big benefits belong to ... |
| 10.03.2015 | HBO Now's Apple Exclusive Ensures The 'Most Pirated Show On TV' Stays That Way | For years now, customers have been begging HBO to offer a standalone streaming service. Instead, customers got HBO Go, a streaming service only accessible if you can prove you have traditional cable. HBO Go is part of the cable and broadcas... |
| 10.03.2015 | HBO will simulcast Game of Thrones to 170 countries | This is another attempt from HBO to stop Game of Thrones from being the most pirated show on TV
Look, I'm sorry to break it to you, but HBO knows you are pirating Game of Thrones. For three years in a row, it has been named the most pirated... |
| 10.03.2015 | One Small Step For Unbundling, One Big Leap For HBO | This week HBO finally announced the arrival of HBO Now, a streaming over-the-top access pass to HBO content for $14.99 a month.
It will debut exclusively on the Apple TV for a three-month period (the first of which will be free to new users... |
| 21.11.2014 | Television is not dead, it’s just changing channels | Netflix will launch in Australia and New Zealand in March next year. Expectations are this is just the start of an influx of new streaming options in Australia.
The internet and television are increasingly intertwined. It is expected that 3... |
| 15.10.2014 | HBO is planning a standalone web subscription service for 2015 | Wondering when HBO would finally ditch cable and start competing directly with Netflix? Well, wonder no more.
Today HBO chief exec Richard Plepler told Time Warner investors that the premium cable channel is planning to launch a standalone ... |
| 15.10.2014 | HBO is planning a standalone web subscription service for 2015 | 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!
Wondering when HBO would finally ditch cable and ... |
| 15.10.2014 | The standalone HBO streaming app is coming! | The day that cord cutters everywhere have been waiting for is finally here!
It's the day that cord cutters everywhere have been waiting for!
HBO has announced that it is finally (FINALLY!) going to be launching its own standalone streaming ... |
| 15.10.2014 | Let The Unbundling Begin: HBO Go Will Be Available Without A Cable Subscription In 2015 | HBO is finally getting its online streaming game on, after Chairman and CEO Richard Plepler revealed that the broadcaster will launch a standalone streaming service next year.
“That is a large and growing opportunity that should no longer b... |
| 13.09.2014 | Box Office: 'No Good Deed' Nabs $8.8M Friday | Sony's No Good Deeds was the top film on Friday, as the Idris Elba/Taraji P. Henson home invasion thriller earned a pretty terrific $8.8 million on its first day of release. The $13.5m thriller courted a bit of controversy this week when So... |
| 09.09.2014 | Box Office Catch Up: 'Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes,' 'How To Train Your Dragon 2' Cross $600M | This is another periodic look at the box office fortunes of somewhat older movies and/or smaller movies and how they have held up over the weeks domestically and internationally. I haven't done one of these since late April, mostly because ... |
| 09.08.2014 | Box Office: 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Nabs Bodacious $25.6M Friday | Paramount's (Viacom, Inc.) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles turtle-powered its way to a terrific $25.6 million opening Friday, including $4.6m on Thursday. Brief digression: For a summer box office that's allegedly in some kind of slump, this i... |
| 12.07.2014 | Box Office: 'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' Nabs $27M Friday, Could Hit $70M | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes scored a muscular $27.7 million opening day, including $4.1m in Thursday previews. The 20th Century Fox (a division of 21st Century Fox, Inc.) sequel, which cost $170m to produce, opened well above the $19.5m ... |
| 29.06.2014 | Box Office: 'Transformers 4' Nabs $302M Weekend | Michael Bay's Transformers: Age of Extinction scored the biggest opening weekend of 2014, earning a strong $100 million in America and $302.1m worldwide in its initial frame. The Paramount Pictures (a division of Viacom, Inc.) release was a... |
| 27.11.2013 | Betaworks Is Closing On $20 Million, Its First Raise In Over Three Years | New York City-based technology studio, betaworks, home to Digg, Instapaper, Dots, Bitly, Chartbeat, and many other products and services, is raising $20 million in new capital – news that betaworks CEO John Borthwick actually broke himself ... |
| 05.06.2013 | Bloomberg launches $75 million venture capital fund Bloomberg Beta | International news agency Bloomberg is taking a shot at the venture capital game with its new fund, Bloomberg Beta, which was launched yesterday and is designed to invest in early-stage startups.
Headed up by Roy Bahat, the former head of ... |
| 05.06.2013 | Bloomberg launches $75 million venture capital fund Bloomberg Beta | International news agency Bloomberg is taking a shot at the venture capital game with its new fund, Bloomberg Beta, which was launched yesterday and is designed to invest in early-stage startups.
Headed up by Roy Bahat, the former head of I... |
| 07.05.2013 | Joyus Raises $11.5M in Second Funding | Joyus, a San Francisco, CA-based video shopping company, raised $11.5m in a second funding round.
The news was firstly reported by AllThingsD.com (read here) and then confirmed by Time Warner Investments, which led the round along with Inte... |
| 07.01.2013 | Netflix grabs an exclusive deal on Warner Bros. TV shows | Netflix has signed a new deal with Warner Bros. that will bring a slew relatively current television shows exclusively to the streaming video service, the streaming video and rental service announced today.
Netflix’s deal with the WB will b... |
| 07.01.2013 | Netflix grabs an exclusive deal on Warner Bros. TV shows | 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!
Netflix has signed a new deal with Warner Bros. t... |
| 04.09.2012 | With An Eye Toward Video Discovery, Flixster Relaunches To Help Users Navigate The World Of Movies Online | So here’s the good news: There are more movies available online than ever before. And the bad news: There are also more movie services than ever. What that means for consumers is a hugely fragmented experience, where they never know where o... |
| 06.08.2012 | Update: It’s Done. Time Warner Buys Bleacher Report, Price Reportedly $175M | Update: TBS has now confirmed that it has bought Bleacher Report . The division will become a part of the Turner Sports division. That group currently manages digital properties on behalf of the NBA, NCAA and PGA, and it oversees ad sales f... |
| 14.05.2012 | Femanomics: 105 Women Venture Capitalists & Angel Investors You Should Know | I know what you’re thinking. You are thinking there has been a lot of talk about women investors, or rather, the lack of women venture capitalists and angel investors. You can read about it, here, here, here, and here. You can read the outr... |
| 24.03.2012 | AOL may sell off some of its 800 patents for cash | reader comments 20 with 16 posters participating
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| 24.01.2012 | Bluefin Labs Raises $12M in Series B Funding | Bluefin Labs, a Cambridge, MA-based social TV analytics company, has raised $12m in a Series B funding.
The round led by Time Warner Investments, with participation from new investor SoftBank Capital and existing investors Redpoint Ventures... |
| 23.05.2011 | Intel, Time Warner And The9 Make $23M Strategic Investment In Social Gaming Company CrowdStar | Social gaming company CrowdStar has had an impressive run of competing with giants like Zynga, EA and Disney with only $100,000 in funding. The company is the fifth largest social gaming app developer on Facebook with 29 million monthly act... |
| 04.05.2011 | Warner Bros. beats out Yahoo to buy Rotten Tomatoes owner Flixster | Social movie site Flixster’s long acquisition saga has now come to an end. Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Group announced this morning that it has acquired the site, a deal that also includes the popular movie ratings aggregator Rotten ... |
| 22.02.2011 | Did Severance Deadline Speed Time Inc. CEO's Firing? | Time Warner chairman Jeff Bewkes. Image by Getty Images via @daylife |
| 19.10.2010 | Clovr Media snaps up $1.5M for credit card-linked ad offers | Clovr Media, a developer of credit card-linked offers for online advertising, said today it has received $1.5 million in seed funding in order to launch a new platform that bridges the link between online deals for consumers and banks looki... |
| 26.04.2010 | Trion Worlds aims to disrupt video-game business with new online titles | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After more than four years of toil, Trion Worlds is raising the curtain today on three major online games that collectively represent o... |
| 26.04.2010 | Trion Worlds aims to disrupt video-game business with new online titles | After more than four years of toil, Trion Worlds is raising the curtain today on three major online games that collectively represent one of the most daring bets in video game history.
Many established game companies struggle to make just o... |
| 22.04.2010 | Time Warner invests in Simulmedia’s targeted TV promotions | New York media marketing startup Simulmedia announced it had raised $8 million in a second round of financing. Time Warner Investments led the round while previous investors Union Square Ventures and Avalon Ventures also participated.
Simul... |
| 13.11.2009 | AOL, the $200 Million Coming Disaster | Time Warner (TWX) filed an 8-K with the SEC today and gave a preview of the AOL spin-off. It's coming quick and it's going to be expensive -- and messy.
It doesn't seem like that many years ago when AOL, swaggering under the weight of its p... |
| 29.06.2009 | Startups Smell Userplane Blood | There has been no shortage of talk about the apparent demise of Userplane, the text, voice and video chat software provider that was acquired by AOL in August 2006 for around $40 million (the exact price was never disclosed).
Venturebeat ra... |
| 24.06.2009 | Is Comcast and TimeWarner’s “TV Everywhere” TV for everyone? | reader comments 24 with 24 posters participating
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| 24.06.2009 | TV Everywhere is Comcast and Time Warner's answer to free Internet video | Cable providers Comcast and Time Warner might be late to the Internet video party, but that doesn’t mean they are going to let us enjoy content for free that they pay for. Oh no, the TV Everywhere Model is designed to give Comcast and Time ... |
| 22.06.2009 | Ad network Tumri shifts course with new $15M | Tumri, an online advertising company that allows brands to fine-tune their ads for different audiences, has taken a new direction, replacing its CEO and CFO and launching a new product in the space of months. To support this shift, it has a... |
| 28.05.2009 | AOL to be sput out; worth $3 bln to $4 bln? | More importantly, will the spin-out mean more M&A?
It's a go. AOL will officially be spun out as a separately-traded public company later this year, giving CEO Tim Armstrong flexibility to grow the business and make massive changes.
&qu... |
| 27.05.2009 | Time Warner To Decide On AOL Spinoff At Thursday Board Meeting (It's A Done Deal, Supposedly) | Last month Time Warner announced that it would likely spin off its AOL assets into a new company, followed by an IPO (10Q SEC filing is here). Little detail was given about the transaction, other than the fact that Google’s 5% stake in AOL ... |
| 29.09.2008 | Facebook hires D.C. insider to be its new general counsel | Facebook has hired Washington, D.C. lawyer Ted Ullyot to be its new general counsel. Ullyot previously held senior legal positions at AOL and was chief of staff for departed U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez in 2005. Most recently, he ... |
| 17.09.2008 | New York investor/incubator Betaworks raises new fund | Betaworks is a small but well-connected New York investor/incubator firm that’s making a name for itself. It has put money into a number of well-hyped (and incidentally, also New York-based) startups including dating service turned social g... |
| 30.05.2008 | Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Media To Release Interactive Web Content | Katalyst Media founders Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg were in Silicon Valley today. They stopped by TechCrunch HQ (aka my house) before heading off to more important meetings with Dan Rosensweig at Quadrangle Group (and the former COO o... |
| 29.04.2008 | Cox Enterprises buys ad network builder Adify for $300M | updated after reaching CEO Russ Fradin and Cox Chief Financial Officer John Dyer
Adify, whose software helps companies build their own advertising networks, has been acquired by media company Cox Enterprises for $300 million, according to v... |
| 29.04.2008 | The Frog lives: Warner resurrects The WB online in beta form | Today, Warner has announced that it will be bringing back The WB as a free, ad-supported online video network to showcase original Studio 2.0 content as well as offer hit WB shows from that networks' -- and others' -- past.
Launching in bet... |
| 26.03.2008 | Roundup: Motorola splits up, cable giants back WiMax venture, and more | Here’s the latest action (updated):
Struggling cell phone manufacturer Motorola announced it would split itself into two different companies. Under pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn, the company will divide itself into a cell phone... |
| 11.09.2007 | Roundup: AjaxWindows, Lemonade, MobiBucks, “racetrack” memory and more | Summary:
*AjaxWindows offers operating system in the browser
*IBM researcher says “racetrack memory” could unseat flash
*Noise reducing headset Jawbone wins backing from Sequoia
*Lemonade, latest company to offer online kiosks
*Adobe previe... |
| 25.01.2005 | AOL Pulls Plug on Newsgroup Service | PERSPECTIVE The world's largest ISP is cutting off direct access to one of the oldest, coolest -- and strangest -- parts of the Internet.
America Online has quietly announced that it will discontinue providing member access to Usenet newsgr... |
| 29.02.2000 | Questions Remain On AOL-TW Plans | America Online Inc. [NYSE:AOL] and Time Warner Inc.
officially unveiled their intent to allow competing Internet
service providers to gain access to the merged company's cable
infrastructure, but consumer group officials and at least one
se... |
| - | SA 100 2014: The Coolest People In New York City Tech | Business Insider New York City has become home to some of the tech industry's most promising companies, including Etsy, MongoDB, and Vice Media.
So we created the Silicon Alley 100 to celebrate people who did the coolest things in the past ... |
