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- ContentNext Founder Rafat Ali: Turning a Blog into a Business
- Wouldn't it be great to do what you love and call it work? Rafat Ali turned an "online resume" of his thoughts into ContentNext, an online media network spanning four websites, three continents and 22 employees. Now he's figuring out how to find good people, manage sales, and shift work...
- Videos 2007-09-04
- 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....
- External links 2009-11-19
- Live From Paley Center: Zucker, Hinton and Other Media Moguls
- I am at Paley Center in midtown Manhattan, on day two of their international media conference. Among the speakers this morning included Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), where he had nothing much to add about Comcast-NBCU talks. Also on the panel on future of news. Jon...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Nielsen Biz Selling Print, Online But Not Until December; Lachlan Murdoch Considering Investing
- No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media NBM but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkelstein’s News Communications, paidContent has learned from multiple sources. We have also learned that Lachlan Murdoch—yes, that Lachlan Murdoch— is considering joining the...
- External links 2009-11-21
- So What Other Parts Microsoft May Sell? Massive?
- Say what you will about Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), at least it has been progressive enough in disposing off ad-related units that become non-core (or mismanaged, depending on who you speak to). Earlier this year it sold off FranchiseGator to Landmark Interactive and now Razorfish. One of the other units...
- External links 2009-08-09
- Razorfish Bidding Saga Over: Publicis Buys It For Around $600M; Bing Ad Deal Included
- So as I first tweeted late last night, the Razorfish bidding war is over, and the winner is, as expected, Publicis. The price, around $600 million, and even though this isn't the highest bid parent MIcrosoft got, it went with it because of the other major component in the...
- External links 2009-08-09
- Meckler Selling Internet.com Business to QuinStreet For $18M; Exiting Tech Trade
- Alan Meckler, one of the pioneers in tech trade business online, is exiting the sector, which tells you more about the long term prospects of big tech trade businesses than anything else. He is in the process of selling off Internet.com division, part of his company WebMediaBrands (NSDQ: WEBM)...
- External links 2009-08-09
- On Rupert's Charge Plan: Experimental Phase Of News Corp
- Staci was on Marketplace earlier today, talking about, what else, Murdoch's pronouncement yesterday about planning to charge for his news sites. Embedded audio below, and transcript here. var so = new SWFObject("http://marketplace.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/s_player.swf", "marketplace_pm_2009_08_06_marketplace_cast1_20090806_64s_player", "319", "83", "8", "#ffffff");so.addParam("quality", "high");so.addParam("menu", "false");so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");so.addVariable("name", "marketplace/pm/2009/08/06/marketplace_cast1_20090806_64");so.addVariable("starttime", "00:16:43.0");so.addVariable("endtime", "00:20:42.0");so.write("marketplace_pm_2009_08_06_marketplace_cast1_20090806_64s_player"); by Rafat Ali
- External links 2009-08-07
- Earnings: E W Scripps' Revs Down 23 Percent
- E W Scripps, the newspaper and TV station media company, has reported its Q209 numbers, and it swung to a Q209 profit, but the topline number is deceiving in comparison because of a $525 million impairment charge it took in Q208 last year on its newspaper biz. On revenue...
- External links 2009-08-10
- RadioTime Gets $900K Funding For Online Radio Guide
- Online radio guide RadioTime, based in Dallas, TX, has raised $900K in new funding, from Startup Capital Ventures and ICCP Venture Partners. The company CEO Bill Moore tells me the company is profitable, with over 20 million listening sessions, growing 20 percent per month, most of it surprisingly through...
- External links 2009-08-07
- NYC Meetup: Evenings of Discontent: Aug 10, 2009
- These are the dog days of summer, and a bunch of us folks will be in NYC coming week. We have tons of space in our NYC offices, so why not throw a casual get together of us media/Internet types? Come over and drown your Recovery blues with us....
- External links 2009-08-07
- RealNetworks Does 12 Music Layoffs; Less Focus on Desktop Client & Edit At Rhapsody
- RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) has done 12 employees layoffs from its Rhapsody music division, we have confirmed from the company, following news earlier on ATD. This is about 9 percent of its music division. The reason: focus on online and mobile applications, rather than the desktop client and its editorial...
- External links 2009-08-06
- Earnings: Scripps' Interactive Revs Held Back by Shopzilla, No Buyers Yet For uSwitch
- Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI), the TV and lifestyle media conglom, has reported its Q209 earnings, and its revenues were down slightly, but net income was up comparatively due to a spinoff charge last year. For Q209, it had revenues of $391 million, down 3.7 percent; net income was...
- External links 2009-08-06
- Industry Moves: Mika Salmi Appointed Chairman of Sulake, Habbo's Parent
- Mika Salmi, the former global digital head for MTV Networks/Viacom (NYSE: VIA), has joined Sulake, the parent of the virtual world Habbo, as Chairman of its board. Ever since leaving MTVN earlier this year, Salmi has been on an extended break from work, but has kept in touch with...
- External links 2009-08-06
- Industry Moves: Gamestop Appoints Petrovic as Digital Head; Big M&A Budget and Mandate
- Gamestop, the offline games retail giant, is finally moving into digital in a much bigger way: just last week it announced the launch of an online casual games store, and now, it has appointed Chris Petrovic, former head of mobile at Playboy (NYSE: PLA), as its new GM of...
- External links 2009-08-05
- 4Kids Makes it Official; Hires Bank for Sale Process
- As I first reported yesterday, NYC-based kids media company 4Kids Entertainment has put itself up for sale, and today the company has announced it officially. It has hired Montgomery & Co. to help it evaluate options, it said in a release. "Given recent developments in our business and in...
- External links 2009-08-05
- ITV Sells Friends Reunited To Thomson DC for Mere £25 Million
- So the Friends Reunited sale saga is finally over, and the final end result is brutal: it was sold off to Dundee-based publisher DC Thomson, which owns brightsolid, which in turn owns genealogy website Findmypast.com, reports FT. The new owners plan to combine FindMyPast with Genes Reunited, a Friends'...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Drupal CMS Buzzr Acquires E-Commerce Site Tipzu
- Buzzr, a Drupal-based drag-and-drop CMS company, has acquired Tipzu, which allows users to launch and manage e-commerce sites based around their hobbies and interests. Buzzr, founded by Ed Sussman, the former president of Mansueto Digital, is in a private alpha, and allows users to create social-media heavy websites without...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Job Search Site SimplyHired Gets $4.6 Million Funding
- Job search engine SimplyHired, based in Mountain View, CA, has received $4.6 million in a new round of funding, led by IDG Ventures and Foundation Capital. This bring the total money into the company to $22.3 million; previous investors include Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS), that invested $3.5 million...
- External links 2009-08-11
- Is There a Case for Playboy + Maxim?
- We've been doing our channel checks for some time on the fates of two iconic brands in the men's magazine industry. One is more troubled than the other, and both, in the end, will have a different owner, sooner rather than later. Both Playboy and Maxim have gone through...
- External links 2009-08-11
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