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- EA's Acquisition of Playfish: Some More Details From SEC Filing: Earnout Already in Escrow
- Yesterday EA announced buying social gaming company Playfish for $275 million upfront our coverage is here. Now comes more details from an SEC filing by EA. Among those:—$30 million of $275 million is in escrow, a normal occurrence.— Kristian Segerstrale, Sebastien de Halleux and Sami Lababidi, all Playfish senior...
- External links 2009-11-10
- paidContent Quick Hits: Thanksgiving Edition: More News Than You Want
- » Playboy’s sale talks moving fast, according to our sources, and Iconix is still in there strong. A few other parties are in there, including a hedge fund. As we have reported, TV/online outsourcing is on table too, and among the names floated for that are Cisneros Group, with...
- External links 2009-11-26
- Morningstar Acquires SEC Filings Service 10-K Wizard For $12.5 Million
- Morningstar, the investment research and data firm, has acquired one of the services we use multiple times a day: 10-K Wizard, one of the providers of SEC filings research and alert services, for $12.5 million subject to working capital adjustments. Besides filings itself, 10K has been developing data mining...
- External links 2008-12-04
- Yahoo-MSFT Deal: Details From SEC Filing
- Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) just filed with SEC with some more details of its search deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). Some standouts:—The deal details have to be hashed out by by October 27, 2009More to come? by Rafat Ali
- External links 2009-08-04
- Adobe-Omniture: Some Details From SEC Filings
- Some more details on Adobe’s acquisition of Omniture (NSDQ: OMTR), from the SEC filing filed today, following the acquisition announcement earlier today. —Name of the shell acquiring corp: Snowbird Acquisition Corporation—Termination fee: $64 million that Omniture will have to pay—No shop provision—The directors of Omniture currently holding shares representing...
- External links 2009-09-15
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- AOL Keeping Its Venture Investments and AOL India
- Last week I reported based on AOL’s spinoff SEC filing that Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) may be retaining AOL India and AOL’s venture investments. Turns out neither of that is happening, and was based on my misreading of the SEC filings. On AOL India, the company has denied Time...
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- How the Helio Buyout Process Went: Virgin Mobile Wanted To Bring In a Retail and Financial Investor
- Virgin Mobile USA bought Helio earlier this year, for a paltry $39 million in equity and getting $50 million in investment from British parent Virgin Group and SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM). That we reported on in detail at that time. Now finally, VMUSA has filed details of how the...
- External links 2008-12-12
- How the Helio Buyout Process Went: Virgin Mobile Wanted To Bring In a Retail and Financial Investor
- *Virgin Mobile USA* bought Helio earlier this year, for a paltry $39 million in equity and getting $50 million in investment from British parent Virgin Group and *SK Telecom*. That we reported on in detail at that time. Now finally, VMUSA has filed details of how the sale process...
- External links 2008-12-12
- MTV And RealNetworks Talking on Reorg of Rhapsody Music JV; Could Include Spinoff/Sale
- Breaking: This is not a surprise considering the continued decline of Rhapsody music service in the face of lots of new competition: MTV and RealNEtworks are talking about restructuring their Rhapsody music JV, according to an SEC filing just filed by RNWK. The full filing text:RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), Inc....
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- SEC Watch: Comcast Units Not Part of The Deal, and Its Stakes, Including Current TV
- With the Comcast-NBCU $30 billion deal announcement, the remaining part of Comcast’s separate business—the cable and ISP business—also includes some interactive/digital units that perhaps got the short shift during yesterday’s coverage. From an SEC filing earlier this morning, a list of retained digital businesses include:—Comcast Interactive Media (NSDQ: CMCSA)...
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- SEC Watch: Comcast-NBCU: Stuck Together For At Least 3.5 Years; Non-Compete Rights
- Some more Comcast-NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) deal details were filed this morning in an SEC filing. From it:—The formal name of the Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Entertainment + NBCU combine: a lame “NewCo”.—NewCo will be managed by a board of directors initially consisting of three Comcast designees and two GE...
- External links 2009-12-04
- How Murdoch Wooed The Journal, and Zannino's Role
- Michael Wolff's much anticipated book about Rupert Murdoch, which comes out tomorrow, is all the rage on this media Monday, and is at least something better to distract us from the depressing news all around us. Reviews are coming in fast, and most have their own judgments about Murdoch,...
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- Financial Portal RakedIn Gets $5.7 Million From Unionsquare and Others
- UpCompany, the parent company of RakedIn, the financial and company profiles portal launched by Michael Yavonditte, former CEO of Quigo, has raked in $5.73 million in a new round of funding, according to an SEC filing. The investors in the round include Unionsquare Ventures, and Vast Ventures, among plenty...
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- Sam Zell's Plan D: It's All About Buying Time
- [Guest post by Ken Doctor, Content Bridges]Sam Zell's House of Cards has fallen flat. Today's bankruptcy filing changes everything and nothing. If we still have the capacity for amazement, after a year of subprime meltdown, worldwide recession and the election of Barack Obama, Tribune going banko would be stunning....
- External links 2008-12-09
- Twitter's Official Series E Raise: $100 Million Plus Six Dollars
- That’s according to its SEC filing just in. If they can use some multiple of that $6 to fix the problem today, all is forgiven. This filing also confirms the amount, which the company didn’t disclose when it announced the round officially on Sep 25th. From the filing, of...
- External links 2009-10-08
- Filings Watch: Disney Sold Movies.com To Comcast For $17 Million
- Earlier this year in June, Fandango, the online movie tickets service which is part of Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), bought out movies info site Movies.com from Disney (NYSE: DIS), for an undisclosed sum at that time. Now the amount has come out, in Disney's latest annual 10-K filing with...
- External links 2008-11-25
- Tech Publisher TechTarget To Cut 76 Jobs; 12 Percent of Workforce; Closing Two Print Mags
- TechTarget (NSDQ: TTGT), the publicly traded online and events tech trade company, is cutting 76 jobs from the company, about 12 percent of its workforce, according to an SEC filing. From the filing: "on December 11, 2008, the company implemented an expense reduction program that included a a reduction...
- External links 2008-12-11
- AOL's Spinoff From Time Warner: The Process; AOL India May Be Retained By TW
- AOL (NYSE: TWX) Inc, the new about-to-be-spun-off unit from Time Warner, has filed an amended filing with SEC detailing some of the spin-off specifics. This comes as it named nine new board member for the new company this morning. In it, the exact steps required for this complex spinoff....
- External links 2009-10-26
- Ancestry.com Files For $75 Million IPO
- Ancestry.com has filed for an IPO and plans to raise about $75 million in the offering, according to an SEC filing. More to come? Related The Generations Network, Parent Of Ancestry.com, Sold To PE Firm For $300 Million by Rafat Ali
- External links 2009-08-03
- Local Startup San Diego News Network Gets $700K Funding
- San Diego News Network, a local news startup founded by Neil Senturia, a local technology entrepreneur and involves many execs from San Diego Union Tribune—former SDUT online head Chris Jennewein is the site's president—has raised abouit $707K in funding, out of a $2 million raise effort, from a total...
- External links 2009-08-04
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