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Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 14 Apr 2008 03:09 PM PST
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is slashing 450 jobs from New Line Cinema, Reuters reports. The job cuts were expected, as the movie studio is being absorbed by the company’s Warner…
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 14 Apr 2008 10:03 AM PST
Ad targeting solutions provider Visible World has raised a large $25 million hird round , according to Mediapost. Adams Street Partners and Alliance Bernstein led the round with their first…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Apr 2008 06:47 PM PST
Today was almost eerily quiet after yesterday’s rapid-fire flurry of news… However WSJ is reporting that the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) board is set to meet tomorrow (Friday) to discuss Microsoft’s…
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 10 Apr 2008 09:21 AM PST
AOL (NYSE: TWX) is finally updating its portal’s blog structures with the introduction of the AOL Technology Network, which will house its related Weblogs sites like Engadget, Switched, TUAW, and…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Apr 2008 06:26 AM PST
Who knows how the market will ultimately judge the latest news, but the snap reaction goes something like this. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is an obvious beneficiary, up about 2.6 percent…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Apr 2008 05:00 AM PST
With the Microsoft-Yahoo-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) dance so fluid, analyst reports are going stale pretty fast. Whereas just a couple days ago, most analysts were debating “what price” a deal would…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 Apr 2008 02:53 PM PST
Update: Now WSJ is reporting the same thing, three hours later: that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and AOL (NYSE: TWX) are in serious advanced talks on combining. Under the plan being…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 09 Apr 2008 11:30 AM PST
PaidContent has learned that Lewis Dvorkin is leaving his post as SVP, *AOL* News and Sports, on May 1, with plans to start his own content company. Dvorkin, a media…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 09 Apr 2008 05:56 AM PST
AOL (NYSE: TWX) display ad unit Advertising.com has created PubAccess, a self-serve tool for publishers to join the Ad.com network. The service is aimed at small publishers as a way…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 07 Apr 2008 09:01 PM PST
TheStreet.com and AOL (NYSE: TWX) are expanding their relationship with a three-year deal that includes the company’s homegrown personal finance site MainStreet.com and BankingMyWay, the Bankrate (NSDQ: RATE) competitor that…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 07 Apr 2008 05:29 PM PST
See update below A perennial favorite resurfaces… NYT is reporting that CBS and CNN are in talks to combine their news operations, though the nature of the agreement or the…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 07 Apr 2008 03:00 AM PST
Back in 2004, ESPN (NYSE: DIS) ended a three-year relationship with MSN designed to boost the sports site’s traffic while giving the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) portal much-needed content. Among other…
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 01 Apr 2008 08:18 AM PST
So it has finally happened: AOL (NYSE: TWX) has sold its call center operations in India to Aegis BPO Services, a part of the Essar Group, reports ET. The acquisition…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 31 Mar 2008 10:41 PM PST
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), not in any particular mood to bid against the only competition it has --itself-- has no plans to raise its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO),…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 31 Mar 2008 03:03 PM PST
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) had a rough 2007—its stock ended about 30 percent off its highs—but its top executives all received bonuses above the targets that were set for them…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 31 Mar 2008 06:47 AM PST
Time Inc. has acquired a 51 percent stake in MedioTiempo, a Mexican soccer site that claims to be the biggest sports site in the country. The deal was mentioned in…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 28 Mar 2008 12:02 PM PST
Kevin Cohen, the go-to guy for digital at Turner Broadcasting long before most of the execs there realized it mattered, is leaving to launch a new company with his father,…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 25 Mar 2008 06:55 PM PST
A few feet from where I’m typing this lies 40 years worth of Rolling Stone—not in stacks of paper, but DVDs nestled in a box meant to resemble a coffee-table…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 25 Mar 2008 06:02 PM PST
So Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) are moving on to the next thing after their stalled efforts with Pivot through Sprint: now the two cable companies are…
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 25 Mar 2008 07:35 AM PST
The lingering effects of the writers’ strike are being blamed for moderate declines in the major portals’ TV video sites’ February traffic numbers, according to Nielsen Online research cited by…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 24 Mar 2008 09:53 PM PST
In one of the most scathing feature stories on AOL (NYSE: TWX) since the new management came in, FastCompany’s latest issue dissects what led to the current state of chaos…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 24 Mar 2008 09:55 AM PST
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has made some executive changes in its finance group: -- Edward Ruggiero, currently SVP, Corporate Finance at Time Warner, has been elected SVP and Treasurer, reporting…
Posted By Steve Rosenbush - Wed 19 Mar 2008 07:49 PM PST
Ed. Note: Welcome to the second edition of Inside The Deals, a weekly column about M&A in the media written by veteran business journalist Steve Rosenbush. Steve is based in…
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 17 Mar 2008 07:30 AM PST
For the past year, ad agencies have been trying to find the best way to consider their individual relationships to Google (NSDQ: GOOG). With the internet search giant’s $3.1 billion…
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 17 Mar 2008 06:08 AM PST
AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) Platform-A President Lynda Clarizio appears to moving quickly on her promise to quicken the pace of integration at the Time Warner company’s ad group. AOL announced that…
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