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- Boxee To Stream Brightcove Content Now, Too
- Let Hulu hold out ... The video site is still keeping its premium-priced content away from Boxee, but that hasn’t stopped Boxee from adding new, premium content partners. The latest is Brightcove; the online video company sealed a distribution deal with Boxee that will give its clients like TheStreet.com...
- External links 2009-09-08
- Rafat's Going Away Mixer, Oct 13th @ W Westwood
- For those of you who follow my Twitter feed or are my friends on Facebook, this isn’t news, but to those who aren’t, after five years of living in the sun and sand here in Santa Monica, I want to feel miserable again in the New York winter, and...
- External links 2009-10-05
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- Dr. Rafat Ansari, Biofluid Sensor Systems Scientist, John Glenn Research Center
- Dr. Rafat Ansari is a Biofluid Sensor Systems Scientist in the Microgravity Science Division and leads the Vision Research Laboratory at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH. he is currently researching and developing the "Built-for-Space" fiber-optic probe for early detection of cataracts, glaucoma, retinopathy, macular degeneration, and systemic diseases...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- 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
- Profile: Rafat Ali, paidContent.com.(Interview)
- In our Web browsing, every now and then we come across a site that isn't a business research site, but still seems truly noteworthy and deserving of special attention from our readers. One that we came across recently that fit that bill is a site called paidContent.org...
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- Rafat @ USC Annenberg On Entrepreneurial Journalism
- Earlier this month Rafat Ali, publisher and editor of paidContent and ContentNext Media, was the guest for USC Annenberg’s Journalism Director’s Forum hosted by Geneva Overholser. The subject was entrepreneurial journalism; we’ve embedded the video below. Besides the story of starting the company, lessons and advice to j-school students...
- External links 2009-09-27
- Rafat Live: Our Founder Talks About Entrepreneurship And The News Business
- Rafat will be interviewed today on the video site WatchMojo.com by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the site’s CEO. They will talk about the secrets to raising venture money, where the media-blog business is headed—and a whole lot more. You can watch it live below see link after the jump at 3...
- External links 2009-11-04
- A Closer Look at Income Tax and the Rich
- Matthew Rafat submits: The WSJ published an article on taxes - here's an interesting excerpt from the article: Taxes paid by millionaire households more than doubled to $274 billion in 2006 from $136 billion in 2003. No President has ever plied more money from the rich than George W....
- External links 2008-08-12
- Bullish on Nvidia: No Debt and Low Expectations
- Matthew Rafat submits: If you're looking for a quick, high risk bet, check out Nvidia NVDA. They release earnings after the close today. I now own over 600 shares at a purchase price of around 11.10. Although both AMD and Intel are going after NVDA's turf, NVDA has no...
- External links 2008-08-12
- Map of U.S. Foreclosure Activity
- Matthew Rafat submits: Below is a map of American foreclosure activity in July 2008. Click to enlarge: by Matthew Rafat
- External links 2008-08-15
- Take-Two and Electronic Arts: To Merge or Not To Merge?
- Matthew Rafat submits: Take-Two Interactive TTWO closed at 21.77 yesterday (September 9, 2008), far below EA's earlier offered price of 25.74. The DOJ's anti-trust division already blessed a merger, so the only question is whether the two parties will actually want to complete a deal. With Electronic Art's ERTS...
- External links 2008-09-10
- Notes on VMWare's Special Shareholder Meeting
- Matthew Rafat submits: I have been so busy, I thought yesterday was VMware's VMW annual shareholder meeting. I picked up my materials and ran off to the 8AM meeting in Palo Alto, only to realize my mistake. VMware was only holding a special meeting to vote on whether to...
- External links 2008-09-10
- The Take-Two/EA Merger Saga Continues
- Matthew Rafat submits: The EA ERTS/Take-Two TTWO saga continues. Here is what my friend had to say about TTWO's options: The number of call contracts (meaning, they can buy the stock at that price no matter how high it rises) are very high, way exceeding the puts contracts...
- External links 2008-09-11
- Take-Two, EA Call Merger Talks Off (for Now)
- Matthew Rafat submits: The NY Times is reporting the EA ERTS/Take-Two TTWO courtship is no more. On top of the credit turmoil this weekend, this is really bad news for Take Two. It's going to be interesting to see how far TTWO drops on Monday, and how much ERTS...
- External links 2008-09-15
- Housing: Bigger Isn't Always Better
- Matthew Rafat submits: The Wilson Quarterly (WQ, Summer 2008, Vol. 32, No. 3) published an article by Witold Rybczynski about affordable homes: What's driving the high cost of houses today is not increased construction costs or higher profits...but the cost of serviced land. by Matthew Rafat
- External links 2008-09-15
- Ultizen's Lan Haiwen Discusses the Latest Gaming Industry Developments
- Matthew Rafat submits: With the Electronic Arts ERTS Take-Two TTWO deal falling through, I had the opportunity to interview Lan Haiwen, CEO of the Chinese game development company, Ultizen: click to enlarge by Matthew Rafat
- External links 2008-09-17
- Notes from Transmeta's Recent Shareholder Meeting
- Matthew Rafat submits: I attended Transmeta Corporation's TMTA shareholder meeting on Thursday morning. The meeting took place at the Santa Clara Hilton at 8:00AM and was attended by approximately twenty people, with around three to six non-employees attending. The food spread included typical hotel seminar fare, such as Starbucks...
- External links 2008-09-19
- Argyle Executive Forum: The Future of The New York Times Conference Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator Instructions. Arthur Zaczkiewicz While we are waiting for people to dial-in, I am noticing that, like in The New York Times, The New York Post or The Journal, and my local newspaper where I live, they seem to be shrinking and getting smaller. I...
- Earnings calls 2008-06-19
- WaMu's Downfall: No Safeguards
- Matthew Rafat submits: I have accounts with WaMu WM and am happy that JPMorgan JPM has taken them over. JPM's James Dimon has the respect of many investors and Wall Street, and thankfully, my deposits are safe at WaMu. I just read this article in a legal magazine about...
- External links 2008-09-28
- Visa's First Annual Shareholder Meeting a Non-Event
- Matthew Rafat submits: Visa's V first annual shareholder meeting was held on October 14, 2008, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. You would think that the very first shareholder meeting of an internationally known company would be exciting. Unfortunately, the meeting was anything but. I spoke...
- External links 2008-10-19
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