As the Q208 earnings season progresses, some quarterly 10-Qs filed by companies, and some nuggets of information in them: -- Gannett: Lists all its digital media acquisitions and investments done…

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AOL (NYSE: TWX) has bought Socialthing, a company the offers to help manage users online identities, according to Techcrunch. The Boulder, CO.-based company raised $300K of a planned $500K back…

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So the real drama was happening outside Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) annual shareholder meeting...well, happened yesterday, to be exact. Jon Miller won’t going on the Yahoo board for reasons being disputed…

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So there was little drama at today’s shareholder meeting and the results were never in doubt. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has just released its vote tallies confirming that all of the…

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The Q&A portion of any annual meeting is usually a platform for small shareholders to get a megaphone on their pet issue. Large shareholders get to talk through the media…

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Update: Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) spokesman Keith Cocozza says the company never granted Jon Miller permission to join the Yahoo board. “When Jon Miller signed his contract it specifically said…

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The FCC lambasted Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) for blocking traffic from some P2P users and evading its official position on the matter in a long awaited and 3-2 split ruling today.…

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Briefly met Jerry Yang prior to the meeting, and he seemed very relaxed. Only about 100 people in the room...thin. Roy Bostock, the most active board member from Yahoo during…

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Still early at the sprawling Fairmont in San Jose, the venue for Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) annual meeting later today. The purple t-shirts are in abundance, so is the security. And…

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Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has bought Canada-based online used books site AbeBooks. No financial terms were disclosed in the announcement. Interestingly, AbeBooks will continue to function as a stand-alone operation. Amazon…

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The cable industry has had a strong quarter all around, and the Washington Post’s (NYSE: WPO) cable unit was no exception, helping total group revenue moving upward… Company-wide revenue was…

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Local broadcaster Hearst-Argyle’s (NYSE: HTV) Q2 digital revenues rose 13 percent $5.7 million from last year’s $5 million. Naturally, that wasn’t enough to balance out the losses elsewhere stemming from…

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Yes, everyone’s pronouncing Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) annual meeting DOA. Nevermind that Carl Icahn won’t attend, or that the new board members won’t voted in until after the meeting; that doesn’t…

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The network neutrality debate has taken another turn with Robert Quinn, AT&T’s VP on federal regulatory issues, telling FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell that, “use of a P2P file-sharing application would…

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In a recent internal memo, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer discussed the various threats to the company, including the surging Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). In its just-filed 10-K, Microsoft introduces…

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Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), starts off the Q208 earnings call on a somber note: This is most turbulent macro-economic scene we have seen since our company was…

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RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) announced its Q2 2008 earnings today, and was in net losses for the quarter: it has losses of $1.3 million compared, or 1 cents a share, to…

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How did TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) manage to report a pretty solid quarter, in light of ad weakness and the market downdraft? CEO Tom Clarke chalked it up to the company’s…

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After having listened to several of these so far this quarter, conference call intros are getting pretty predictable: The economy is weak, but business is holding up, and don’t forget…

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Considering all the natural challenges TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) is facing, this looks like a solid quarter… Q2 revenue came in at $19.7 million, 32 percent over last year’s $14.9 million,…

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Faced with a weak ad market, CBS (NYSE: CBS) reported Q2 revenue up just 1 percent to $3.93 billion, just behind analyst estimates of $3.41 billion. Net income followed, growing…

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How many points do you get for the word “COMEBACK”? Just two days after Scrabble maker Hasbro succeeded in using the DCMA to take Facebook’s Scrabulous app offline, creators Jayant…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has done a number of strategic investments over the years, and usually big amounts in big-issue-tackling companies, like powerline internet, WiMax, and others. It even has a…

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In the daily drumbeat of bad news for newspapers, the growth of online advertising would seem to offer some solace to the beleaguered industry. But as a WSJ piece tells…

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Scrabble, which replaced the popular Scrabulous application that was pulled from Facebook yesterday, has been attacked by a hacker and pulled from the site, newsfactor.com reports. *Electronic Arts*, which distributes…

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