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Posted By Rachelle Crum - Thu 09 Oct 2008 09:48 PM PST
We’re excited to announce that Tina Brown, co-founder and editor in chief of The Daily Beast, will interview Hearst Magazines President Cathie Black in a Spotlight Q&A at our EconWomen…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 10 Oct 2008 05:16 PM PST
Bell Canada said today that it will use LTE to build out its 4G network, an unexpected move for a company which has many close ties to the competing WiMax…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 04:54 PM PST
Devices are capable of accessing the “white spaces” between airwaves without affecting the adjacent licensed networks under certain power-level limits, the FCC concluded in a detailed report released Friday afternoon.…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 04:33 PM PST
And while Sequoia and other left-coast VC firms are asking their firms to tighten up, and strategically leaking their own advice about surviving the economic downturn (nevermind their investments into…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 04:27 PM PST
We reported earlier today about Fast Company’s merging digital with print operations, and Ed Sussman, the president of Mansueto Digital, leaving as a result. He is now starting a new…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 10 Oct 2008 02:20 PM PST
Layoffs at Mansueto Ventures, specifically the digital side of Fast Company, the result, we’re told, of a decision to fold Mansueto Digital into the company’s print operations. At the same…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 01:25 PM PST
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) is backtracking on the 3 cent per-SMS fee it told partners it would begin charging for every message delivered over its network. And yet it still…
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 12:59 PM PST
It looks to be a brutal Q3 reporting season: Both Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and CBS (NYSE: CBS) Corp have cut their respective outlooks, warning investors that they have been taking…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:59 AM PST
Top headlines of the week from our sister sites paidContent.org and paidContent:UK: paidContent.org: -- Yahoo’s Stock Below $13; Other Media Stock Down To New Lows -- Financial Crisis Sends Ad…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:57 AM PST
Top headlines of the week from our sister sites mocoNews and paidContent:UK: mocoNews: -- Tech Startups Told To Cut Back Spending; Analysts Say Downturn Will Hit Wireless Industry -- Interview:…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:56 AM PST
Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris can never be accused of being shy, or, putting his foot in, oh well...in an extensive interview with Billboard, he talks about the digital…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:26 AM PST
The Research In Motion takeover guessing game has returned. With the BlackBerry-maker’s shares having dropped from more than $148 to around $60 in four tumultuous months, cash-rich companies could be…
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 10:41 AM PST
YouTube, hoping to counter the competition from sites like the NBC/*News Corp*. JV Hulu, has started running full-length episodes of CBS (NYSE: CBS) programming. Executives at the Google-owned video site…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 10:26 AM PST
Even with the first Android device set to launch in a matter of days, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) still has the iPhone and the inherent opportunities it presents high on its…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 10 Oct 2008 10:11 AM PST
Neomobile, an Italian mobile entertainment company, has raised $13.5 million (10 million euros) from the Private Equity arm of Monte Paschi Siena, which will recieve a 16 percent stake in…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:51 AM PST
The Consumer Electronics Association has thrust itself into the mobile TV standardization process by working with a group, which is defining the characteristics of a mobile/handheld features that will be…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:19 AM PST
The Associated Press, source of so much of today’s financial news, is doing a little in-house education on its own finances. In a memo to staff sent out yesterday and…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:18 AM PST
Our latest top jobs in the industry posted this week: -- *Clear Channel* Radio: Director, Research and Advanced Technology Product Development -- Rodale: Director of Online Advertising Operations -- 20th…
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:18 AM PST
Magazines may have been weathering the economic downturn better than newspapers, but the current upheaval in the financial markets makes it only more likely that survival will be more difficult.…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:17 AM PST
A link bait if there ever was one, and a flawed one at best, but then, always fun for the rest of us: a list of 11 online companies that…
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 08:16 AM PST
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) has named former InStyle.com exec Gail Horwood to the new role of SVP Digital Programming and Strategy. Horwood will oversee MSLO’s digital properties, including…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 08:08 AM PST
Updated below: At the rate it is going, $15 per share might sound enticing to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) after a while. A small Yahoo investor Mithras Capital has put out…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 10 Oct 2008 07:53 AM PST
Hollywood.com, the newly independent and newly relaunched, online celeb/entertainment sites, has acquired Media by Numbers, a box office data and analysis resource founded by Paul Dergarabedian, Variety reports. Financial information…
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 07:35 AM PST
With China’s internet audience estimated at 250 million and growing as the U.S. online ad market slows, Nielsen is hoping for a little balance by expanding its partnerships to measure…
Posted By Patrick Smith - Fri 10 Oct 2008 07:24 AM PST
Reed Elsevier’s (NYSE: RUK) troubled attempt to sell-off its UK B2B division Reed Business Information appears to be in big trouble with the news that bids for the company since…
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- Don’t Miss Tina Brown Interviewing Cathie Black at EconWomen, Oct. 29
- Patricof on “R.I.P Good Times”: Don’t Burrow Into a Dark Hole
- Departing Mansueto Digital Head Forms New Drupal-Based Social Publishing Firm
- Fast Company Lays Off 20 As Digital Folds Into Print Operations; Sussman Leaving
- Economic Meltdown Strikes Viacom, CBS Corp.; Both Warn Investors On Lowered Outlook





