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- Midway Gets Wiggle Room with New Forbearance Agreement
- Seth Gilbert submits: Much is relative. Last week was bad for Circuit City; on a comparative scale, not so much for gamer Midway Games MWY. Despite the crippling pressure of massive lingering debt potentially due ahead of its time, the company managed to do what the big retailer...
- External links 2009-02-13
- Discovery Hits Amazon with Infringement Suit Over Kindle
- Seth Gilbert submits: The teeth associated with Discovery Communications DISCK (“Discovery”) are usually those flashed on Animal Planet, during the company’s “Shark Week” TV programming on the Discovery Channel, or when host Bear Grylls eats something disgusting, but it turns out the company’s legal department has plenty of...
- External links 2009-03-18
- CBS-Owned Last.fm Has to Start Earning Its Way in Several Markets
- Seth Gilbert submits: Advertising is sometimes seen as the great subsidizer, the mighty and powerful Oz that can pay for all kinds of Internet media. But Oz couldn’t give the Scarecrow a brain and advertising can’t give all Internet content businesses a good looking income statement. Free (ad-supported) online radio...
- External links 2009-03-26
- Apple Looks Set to Start iTunes Tiered Pricing in April
- Seth Gilbert submits: The recording industry has had a love affair with the idea of variably priced music for years. As a tool, it’s a way to manage supply or even manipulate demand. If an album or single isn’t selling or there’s excess inventory, for example, the price can be...
- External links 2009-03-30
- Disney Opens the Castle Doors to TV Content Deals
- Seth Gilbert submits: Disney’s DIS castle has been locked down tightly when it comes to distributing its video programming online but that now appears to be changing. Last week, word leaked that the company was discussing a possible content partnership and equity stake in News Corp.’s NWS and NBC/Universal’s joint...
- External links 2009-03-31
- Google Pulls Music Videos from Germany as Streaming Royalty Struggles Continue
- Seth Gilbert submits: Legend has it, the great blues musician Robert Johnson went down to a crossroads and made a deal with the devil. In exchange for unfounded musical talent, the story says, he traded his soul. It was a yes or no choice; be a guitar hero, or not....
- External links 2009-04-03
- Will Midway's Employees Choose to Jump Ship or Right the Ship?
- Seth Gilbert submits: A talented staff can be a company’s greatest asset but in tough times it can also be a significant liability. It comes down to motivation and retention. Can employees be kept happy and on the job or will they flee to a more stable, more...
- External links 2009-04-07
- DRM-Free iTunes Is Finally Here
- Seth Gilbert submits: As announced in January, and forecast a little more than a week ago, Apple AAPL officially made the switch from 99 cent songs to tiered pricing on iTunes Tuesday. For the better part of six years, Apple had resisted record label pressure to...
- External links 2009-04-09
- On the Applevine: iPhone 3.0 Coming Soon?
- Seth Gilbert submits: Apple AAPL appears to have bought up large amounts of flash memory fueling a new round of iPhone 3.0 rumors. The company was also hit with a new patent infringement lawsuit. THE FLASH Memory orders are often monitored as potential indicators of consumer electronics production changes. It’s...
- External links 2009-04-12
- Teardown of Apple's iPod Shuffle Leads to New Estimates
- Seth Gilbert submits: Ask an accountant or economist to define the value of an iPod Shuffle, or what it’s worth, and you might get a few dissertations in reply. Ask what it costs? That’s a little easier to peg. Market research firm iSupply has done a teardown of...
- External links 2009-04-14
- Netbook Rumors Swirl on the Applevine
- Seth Gilbert submits: Other than a cryptic comment about having some ideas, or remarks the market opportunity is still nascent, Apple AAPL has not said anything about making a netbook computer. Still, the frequency of rumors about the so far non-existent device rate second on the Applevine ...
- External links 2009-04-21
- Yahoo's Q1: Looking to a Leaner, Stronger Future
- Seth Gilbert submits: While Silicon Valley and the rest of California suffered an unprecedented spring heat wave, Yahoo YHOO announced earnings Tuesday that were anything but hot. Largely in line with expectations, but off 78% year over year, net income dropped to 8 cents a share, or $118m, down from...
- External links 2009-04-22
- News Corp.'s MySpace Headed for a Staff Shakeup
- Seth Gilbert submits: When former AOL chief Jon Miller took the tiller to steer News Corp.'s NWS digital efforts a few weeks ago as Chairman and CEO of the Digital Media Group and News Corp.’s Chief Digital Officer, there was no masking the fact that change was gonna come. Miller...
- External links 2009-04-23
- Apple's Q2 by the Numbers: Another Solid Showing
- Seth Gilbert submits: In the second quarter, despite the economy’s effect on consumer sales, Apple’s AAPL train continued to roll ahead with plenty of steam. Wednesday, the company announced the best non-holiday earnings in its history. After the close of the market, Apple reported net income of $1.33 a...
- External links 2009-04-23
- Seattle's P-I Collapses: Traditional Media Searches for New Revenue Models in Digital Age
- Seth Gilbert submits: The occasional journalist Mark Twain famously told a newspaper reporter that the report of his death was an exaggeration. For the staff at Seattle’s daily Post-Intelligencer, reports of the paper’s death were anything but. After weeks of rumor, failed efforts to sell the paper,...
- External links 2009-03-17
- News Corp., Aol Shuffle Top Executives
- Seth Gilbert submits: Thursday was a busy day in the executive wings at AOL [owned by Time Warner TWX] and News Corp. NWS. Both companies made changes to their organizational charts. News Corp. With the announcement of Peter Chernin’s departure in February, Rupert Murdoch hinted News Corp. would...
- External links 2009-03-13
- Midway Games Loses the Fight, Files for Bankruptcy
- Seth Gilbert submits: Midway Games MWY fought the good fight, twice extending debt repayment deadlines, but ultimately extensions weren’t a solution. With time again running out, today the company gave in and sought the protection of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The full court document is embedded below Midway had been under...
- External links 2009-02-13
- Midway Creditors Cry Foul Play over Approval of Bankruptcy Motions
- Seth Gilbert submits: Over the concerns of some lenders, Tuesday Midway Games got a green light from the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware to continue to run its U.S. operations as usual as it moves forward. The authorization for the “first day motions” will allow the ...
- External links 2009-02-18
- Nintendo Does It Again: DSi Brings New Types of Interactive Play to U.S. in April
- Seth Gilbert submits: Not that Nintendo (NTDOY.PK) needs any help, as the company’s already dominating its competition in the US, an added boost is due this spring. Nintendo announced Wednesday that the third generation of their popular Dual Screen (DS) portable will come stateside on April 5th. Available...
- External links 2009-02-22
- Chernin Bids News Corp. Farewell: Departure Memos and Details
- Seth Gilbert submits: As the President, COO and number two executive at News Corp. NWS for the last twelve years, Peter Chernin has long been counted among the most powerful men in the media industry but his position has always had a footnote. Unlike other executives in similar roles, outsiders...
- External links 2009-02-24
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