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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
- Cyworld Shutting Down U.S. Service; So Much For $110 Million Earmark
- Cyworld, the Korean social giant that could, finally couldn’t. At least not in U.S. It is shutting down its U.S. service, after three years of trying, according to a notice on its site. It will shut down in entirety on Nov 23. The service, owned by SK Telecom (NYSE:...
- External links 2009-11-06
- Guardian News And Media Laying Off Seven Employees In U.S.
- Guardian America, the U.S. arm of Guardian News and Media (of which we’re a separate division), is laying off seven production/edit employees, we have learned and confirmed. Most of them are in Guardian’s Washington DC office, and have been given three months notice. None of the U.S. correspondents are...
- External links 2009-11-06
- More on News Corp's Charging-For-News Consortium Obsession
- News Corp (NYSE: NWS) has hinted at it in bits and pieces over the last six months, but now Dawn’s reporting in LAT that he has been meeting with various media companies, in an effort to “develop a forming a consortium that would charge for news distributed online and...
- External links 2009-08-21
- Portfolio.com Returns; All ACBJ and Conde Nast Biz Content
- Portfolio.com, the website of the defunct Conde Nast magazine Portfolio, has relaunched, after about two weeks of delay from the original plan. This comes three months after the mag was shut, and the ownership of the website was transferred to sister company American City Business Journals. The focus is...
- External links 2009-08-12
- Tad Smith Joins Cablevision As President, Local Media
- So this wasn't in one of my guesses, but Tad Smith, the former CEO of RBI USA, is joining Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) as the president of local media, a new division within the cable/media conglom. More to come? by Rafat Ali
- External links 2009-08-12
- Gaming Console Zeebo Gets $6 Million in Debt Funding
- Zeebo, the downloadable game console that launched earlier this year, has received $6 million in debt and options from one investor, according to an SEC filing. This money comes after Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) invested an undisclosed amount in the company last year. Just last week, Zeebo announced that Qualcomm...
- External links 2009-08-12
- 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
- Video Service Magnify Raises About $500K in New Funding
- Online video services provider Magnify.net, based in NYC, has raised about $500K in new funding from its previous investors, bringing the total funding in the company to less than $3 million, CEO Steve Rosenbaum told me earlier today. The previous investors were Next Stage Capital, New York Angels, Rose...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Media Consortium Creating Rival To Nielsen TV Ratings
- A group of media companies have finally done the inevitable: NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) Viacom (NYSE: VIA), CBS (NYSE: CBS), Discovery and Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) are joiing to create a rival to the much-hated-but-highly-used TV ratings system by Nielsen, reports...
- External links 2009-08-13
- USOC Delays Its Olympics Channel Plans, After IOC Pressure
- There goes this: it won't launch, if you ask me. The U.S. Olympic Committee has delayed a plan for its own TV network, meant to highlight Olympic sports outside of the four-yearly cycle, after complaints from IOC and worries that it may jeopardize Chicago's bid for the 2016...
- External links 2009-08-16
- paidContent Quick Hits For Weekend: 08.16.09
- » Redbox's video game rentals kiosks starts going live; first one in Reno, NV and rents games for $2.» France Telecom's East Coast research center in Boston, Orange Labs is closing, after seven years. Cost cutting is the reason.» A 35-year old is the new head of Univision....
- External links 2009-08-16
- Zelnick Interested in BusinessWeek; Wasserstein's As Employees Fave?
- The bidding for McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) owned BusinessWeek is entering final stages, and bids are due by Sep 15, reports BW’s own Jon Fine. A new name in the process is Strauss Zelnick’s ZelnickMedia, which seems to be part of every major media bidding these days. Zelnick is best...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Did Bankrate Rush Through The Apax Deal? SEC Picking Over Details
- The Deal Professor on NYTimes.com raises some great questions on the Bankrate’s sale deal to Apax Partners, after combing through the tender offer SEC filings. Among the main points raised: the management seems to want to push through the deal with Apax, and may not have gone through a...
- External links 2009-08-20
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