MedTrackAlert, a new online media company covering prescription drug news for consumers, has raised a million dollars in angel funding. The names of angel investors was undisclosed. One of the…

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CNET COO Barry Briggs left earlier this week...William Morrison, an analyst with JMP Securities, came out with a research note (picked up by Barron’s Blog) and provided a roster of…

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The body of CNET senior editor James Kim, missing for 11 days in the remote Oregon wilderness, has been found. We hope that discovery brings some relief to his loved…

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Some analysts are still bullish on CNET Networks, despite weakness in its core business and a stock-options backdating scandal...Barron’s blog picks up on one: Mark Mahaney, Internet analyst at Citigroup,…

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If you spend any time at financial news sites or portals you may have noticed recent notes that say real-time quotes are no longer available or are available only for…

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Updated below: So we heard through sources at the Web 2.0 conference...Release 1.0, the original and influential newsletter about technology, founded by Esther Dyson, which was bought by CNET couple…

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Update: I linked to the wrong site..the correct URL is Arts-culinaires.com. Also from its conference call, CNET mentioned that it has made another niche site acquisition, this time in its…

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Will CNET explanation for its decline in Q3 page views appease Wall Street? The jury is still out. Page views fell 13 percent to about 86 million per day, while…

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CNET Networks, under investigation following the backdated stock options scandal, has decided not to reports its profits for Q3 (the second straight quarter it has done so). The investigation is…

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Shelby Bonnie’s resignation as CNET chairman and CEO comes as companies ranging from Apple to United Health are feeling the effects of investigations into the way stock options have been…

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Shelby Bonnie, the emblematic co-founder and CEO of CNET Networks, has resigned as CEO, after the company found errors in how the firm accounted for stock-option expenses. Neil Ashe has…

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With six high-energy, competitive execs and multiple agendas, the MIXX super session on The Future could have been a disaster.  Instead, moderated by Jack Myers, it was an energetic discussion…

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Kinda interesting how everyone’s raiding CNET’s talent pool for startup senior execs (though CNET has always been a good platform for a lot of online execs): Suzie Reider, who till…

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CNET Networks’ latest non-geek consumer play Chow.com (placeholder for now), gets a pre-launch intro in just the right place to set it aside from geekdom: the NYT Dining section, where…

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In its earnings announcement today, CNET slipped in some major moves on its part. -- It mentioned that in May, it bought UrbanBaby, a parenting resource site. This move comes…

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CNET Networks (Nasdaq: CNET) posted a 14 percent rise in Q2 revenues to $92 million (beating analyst estimates), but it did not report profit results ahead of a previously announced…

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CNET Networks expects to restate its financial statements going back to 2003 to correct errors related to accounting for stock-based compensation. It expects to record non-cash charges for stock-based compensation…

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I don’t understand this very clearly, but it is affecting CNET’s stock price...it has received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California asking…

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We reported about Vince Broady’s move to Yahoo yesterday. He was heading CNET"s entertainment properties (GameSpot, MP3.com, TV.com, among others), and at Yahoo, he will be the head of its…

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Yahoo’s consumer tech site launched Sunday night. Some initial observations given that the site is supposed to be a step forward (the NYT calls it one of “its first major…

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Surprisingly, the CNET Q1 earnings conference call focused a lot on competition between Webshots (mainly because of how the phtoto sharing site which CNET bought out is not growing as…

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CNET, which recently bought Chowhound food-community site, has made another small acquisition in the category: it has bought the assets of Instant Comma, former operators of Chow Magazine, as CEO…

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CNET Networks posted a Q1 loss on higher sales, yet the company chopped its full-year profit forecast mostly due to the expensing of employee stock options. Net losses came in…

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Another in the line of CNET’s diversification: it has launched a college-focused online community site, spun off its Webshots picture-sharing site. The CollegeLive service will be restricted to users with…

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You want proof of why CNET won’t or can’t be sold? It is getting weirder and weirder by the day. Take this: it has bought out serious foodie website Chowhound.…

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