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- Allen puts money where his mouse is.
- Computer pioneer invests in computer cable channel ZDTV Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has a greed to buy a 33% stake in start-up computer channel ZDTV for $54 million. The deal follows several weeks of discussions with potential...
- Research articles 1998-11-23
- Allen's 'World' Keeps Expanding.
- Paul Allen's latest cable investment is $54 million for a 33 percent stake in ZDTV, the young cable network focused on computers and the Internet. Allen - the Microsoft Corp. cofounder, whose Vulcan Ventures has committed more than $7 billion ...
- Research articles 1998-11-23
- Allen's Techtv network seeks partners.(billionaire Paul Allen)
- After toughing it out as an "independent" for five years, computer billionaire Paul Allen's Techtv is looking for a strategic partner that can help jump-start its distribution and marketing growth. Techtv, owned by Allen's Vulcan Inc After toughing it...
- Research articles 2003-05-26
- THE PERFECT MARRIAGE NEEDS SOME HELP.(Action Sports Cable Network, launched by Paul Allen)(Brief Article)
- HD sports producers are still ironing out the kinks, but progress is tangible Overall, the marriage of HD and sports has been a successful one, with the divorce of Monday Night Football and HD being the exception. And, moving forward, the...
- Research articles 2001-06-25
- Adelphia works to build fiber-optic network here.(Adelphia Business Solutions Inc. invests in Cleveland, Ohio)(Brief Article)
- Adelphia Business Solutions Inc. is investing $3 million in the Cleveland area to create a fiber-optic communications network aimed at delivering local and long-distance voice services, high-speed data transmission and Internet capability to customer Adelphia Business Solutions Inc. is investing $3 million in the Cleveland...
- Research articles 2000-12-04
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- He's hiring expensive lobbyists and public-relations firms to wage a lobbying war against the cable industry's Internet strategy.
- America Online Inc. chairman and CEO Steve Case is considered one of the kings of the Internet because he managed to fend off Bill Gates from the outside The Microsoft Network and Paul Allen from the inside (Allen once had a big chunk of AOL stoc ...
- Research articles 1999-04-19
- Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Diagnosed With Lymphoma
- Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft in 1975 along with Bill Gates, has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer that originates in the body?s lymph nodes. This is the second time that Allen has fought the disease, which he first successfully beat after being diagnosed in 1983, the...
- News items 2009-11-17
- Allen drops sports net stake.(Setanta Sports bought Paul Allen's stake in North American Sports Network.)(Brief Article)
- LONDON -- Billionaire Paul Allen is selling his stake in the North American Sports Network, a digital cable channel that broadcasts baseball, basketball, NASCAR and other U.S. sports in Europe. The Microsoft co-founder, an original investor in NASN, is selling the...
- Research articles 2005-06-09
- Moxi-Owner Digeo Sold To Arris For $20 Million; Allen Takes Big Loss
- Digeo—the Paul Allen-backed DVR maker—has been sold to broadband tech firm Arris Group for roughly $20 million in cash. The deal comes just over a year after Digeo laid off half of its staff and sharply cut back on its product plans, saying it had been “spreading its energies...
- External links 2009-09-22
- It's raining men. (Through the Wire).(Vulcan Ventures said to be considering men's cable network)(Brief Article)
- Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures Inc. has explored creating a cable network that targets men. According to several sources last week, Seattle-based Vulcan researched and crafted a very preliminary business plan for a service that would be loosely Paul...
- Research articles 2002-11-04
- Allen Takes An RCN Bath
- Billionaire Paul Allen made his bones as a cofounder of Microsoft. But Alien has fared less well in other ventures. Allen's holding company, Vulcan Ventures, last year dumped 40% of its stock of RCN, a West Windsor provider of cable-TV, telephone and other communication services over its broadband network. The...
- Research articles 2004-01-12
- Microsoft CEO Ballmer Launches Windows 7 In New York
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer headlined the long-awaited launch of Windows 7, Microsoft?s newest operating system and its biggest hope for eliminating the stigma of the ill-received Windows Vista, in a high-profile event in New York City on Oct. 22. Ballmer cited how the mission of computing has expanded past Bill...
- News items 2009-10-22
- "Spleak"ing out on Sports and Politics
- Last month, we covered the deal between Hearst Corp. and Spleak Media Network, the San Francisco-based hybrid publishing startup, whose CelebSpleak attracts a reported 100,000 visitors per day, mostly teen and twenty-something females. Now, Spleak is launching two new offerings -- SportSpleak and VoteSpleak. These two...
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Lycos Unveils Strategic Investment Fund; Worldwide Partners Include Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, Sumitomo and Bear Stearns
- WALTHAM, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 20, 1999-- Approximately $70 Million to be Invested in Companies Providing Strategic Value to the Lycos Network; Fund Augments Lycos' Existing Portfolio of 11 Investments Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq:LCOS), the fastest growing Internet portal and the world's largest online community, today announced as a...
- Research articles 1999-07-20
- Simple, Affordable Computer Networks Will Connect Rooms of Future Homes.
- By Brier Dudley, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 6-- Soon Bill Gates and Paul Allen won't be the only ones on the block to have elaborate home computer networks connecting every room in their homes to the Internet and...
- Research articles 2002-01-06
- Microsoft Co-founder Diagnosed With Cancer
- SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters UK) - Microsoft Corp MSFT co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and has begun treatment, a spokesman for his investment company said on Monday. Employees of Vulcan Inc, which Allen formed in 1986 to manage his business dealings and philanthropic activity, were informed of...
- News items 2009-11-17
- In the game: G4 buys Tech TV, gets a boost in ratings, viewers.(Top of the Week)(Brief Article)
- Videogame/lifestyle network G4 is moving up to cable's middleweight division courtesy of parent Comcast Corp. After months of bargaining, Comcast is gobbling up struggling Tech TV from Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures and plans to merge it with G4. The Videogame/lifestyle network G4 is moving...
- Research articles 2004-03-29
- Fox News Net Gets Carriage on Charter.
- Paul Allen's Charter Communications has reached a distribution agreement with Fox News Channel, and the MSO will roll the network out to 75 percent of its 6 million subscribers over the next three years, officials said last week. Some of the...
- Research articles 1999-08-30
- Sports Transactions from The Sports Network.
- Nov 25, 2002 The Sports Network via COMTEX === Monday, November 25th === === BASEBALL === ...
- Research articles 2002-11-27
- Sports Transactions from The Sports Network.
- Nov 25, 2002 The Sports Network via COMTEX === Monday, November 25th === === BASEBALL === ...
- Research articles 2002-11-27
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