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- EBay Confirms Deal With Skype Cofounders; They Get 14 Percent Stake In Spinoff
- As expected, eBay announced a deal today between the Skype investor group and Joltid, the owner of the code that runs Skype. Joltid and Skype cofounders Niklas Zennstr by Staci D. Kramer
- External links 2009-11-06
- Google Will Seek EU Publishers' Permission For U.S. Books Project
- Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will ask European book publishers’ permission before making their works available to U.S. users, in a bid to stay on the right side of EU states’ copyright law. Google confirmed to paidContent:UK in a statement that it will digitize either the full text or excerpts from...
- External links 2009-09-07
- Marvel-ous Future For Disney?
- In the works for roughly three months, the Disney (NYSE: DIS) deal to acquire Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL) has analysts fretting about premiums—and comics fans freaking about a future of Captain America Meets Tinkerbell. We’re likely months away from a close or from anything that might affect the Marvel...
- External links 2009-09-01
- New NFL Policy Limits Social Media Use On Game Day
- Add the National Football League to the list of sports orgs laying out specific guidelines for social media. The NFL sent a memo detaining its policy to clubs Monday afternoon and released a statement published below focusing on Game Day rules. Key points: —“The use of social media by...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Interview: Disney CFO Tom Staggs: 'Chance To Take Marvel To New Level'
- The shockwaves from this morning’s news that the Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) is buying Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion had barely started when we got on the phone with Disney CFO Tom Staggs, who told paidContent he expects the deal to pay for itself from day one: “We’ve...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Spider-Man Meets Mickey Mouse: Disney Buying Marvel For $4 Billion In Stock, Cash
- The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) is buying Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL) and its 5,000-character roster for a cool $4 billion in stock and cash. The deal, which would help Disney expand its appeal to boys, was announced before the market opened Monday; it’s one of the largest acquisitions...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Former Cablevision Exec Sues Steinbrenner Over YES Network Idea, Wants Millions
- Some lawsuits can be spotted coming a mile away but this one appeared out of nowhere: Bob Gutkowski, who once ran Madison Square Garden and the MSG network, is suing George Steinbrenner over the idea for the Yankees’ YES Network. Keep in mind the network launched in 2002 with...
- External links 2009-08-31
- James Murdoch In Edinburgh: 'Analogue Attitudes In A Digital Age'
- Twenty years after his father Rupert Murdoch delivered the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, chip-off-the-old-block James Murdoch took the stage tonight to lambaste the BBC, decry Ofcom and call for an end to what he calls the “creationist” approach to managing media—the end of “analogue attitudes...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Comcast Wins Appeal Against FCC's Cable Ownership Cap
- A federal appellate court smacked the Bush-era FCC with a ruling overturning the 30 percent cap on cable ownership and possibly opening the doors to even more cable consolidation. It’s the second time that the DC court has ruled the FCC failed to justify the rule, established to keep...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Time Warner Cable Tries Its Own Version Of TV Everywhere
- Some more details on Time Warner Cable’s TV Everywhere push, announced this morning, but calling it a trial still lets the cable operator avoid the hard questions like when it will be more than a gimmick available to a relative handful of subscribers, whether programmers will let their shows...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Industry Moves: AOL Brings Back Minson As CFO To Manage Spinoff
- Former AOL (NYSE: TWX) corporate finance head Arthur Minson is moving back to the Time Warner unit as executive vice president and CFO. MInson left AOL in 2006 to help Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) with its spinoff from Time Warner as EVP and deputy CFO, giving him the...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Time Warner Cable Online Video Test En Route
- Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable is on the verge of expanding its online video efforts from a small-scale HBO trial to a small-scale national test of its version of TV Everywhere with some of the same networks involved in Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) On Demand. The WSJ reports that the...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Gannett, AP Won't Agree To New SEC Online Media Rules
- Tim Tebow and the University of Florida Gators head the Associated Press pre-season football poll by a wide margin but the AP may not be in the stadium to cover their season opener against Charleston Southern. AP won’t be able to pick up coverage from member chain Gannett (NYSE:...
- External links 2009-08-24
- State Of Facebook
- And for his next trick, Mark Zuckerberg will boost the size of Facebook’s 1,000-person staff by as much as 50 percent this year while trying to stay in start-up mode and reach positive cash flow next year.During an interview with Bloomberg News, at least the published part, Zuckerberg almost...
- External links 2009-08-24
- SEC Watch: News Corp.'s Murdochs Take Pay Hit, Ailes Gets A Raise
- Peter Chernin barely edged out Rupert Murdoch in 2008 as the highest-paid News Corp (NYSE: NWS). exec but Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes handily beat them all in fiscal 2009 with total compensation of $23.7 million. That’s more than double the $10.9 million Ailes made in 2007...
- External links 2009-08-23
- Tribune To Sell Control Of Cubs, Wrigley Field To Ricketts Family For $845 Million
- After a tortured budding process dating back more than two years, the bankrupt Tribune Co. is selling the Ricketts family 95 percent of the Chicago Cubs and iconic Wrigley Field for about $845 million —pending approval by Major League Baseball and a federal bankruptcy court. The deal, which would...
- External links 2009-08-21
- Napster Commits iPhone-cide; Opts Out Of Steaming App Competition For Now
- While RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) looks for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to approve its Rhapsody iPhone app and newcomer Spotify prepares to launch, the wait for a similar streaming app from Napster is over: there won’t be one. A Napster rep e-mailed this morning to explain that the Best Buy subscription...
- External links 2009-09-01
- EBay Sells 65 Percent Of Skype For $1.9 Billion
- EBay is finally putting us out of our misery when it comes to speculation about Skype but it isn’t getting completely out of the virtual phone business. Instead, eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is selling 65 percent of Skype to an investor group led by Silver Lake in a deal valuing...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Weekend Reading: Intentional Nonprofit News
- The New York Review of Books has met the future of journalism and it’s buried inside a 5,200-word essay that I’m finally getting through. Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo gets the nod as “the one site that has turned a profit without the aid of print or a sponsor.”...
- External links 2009-09-06
- NYT, WSJ Explore Localized Editions; San Francisco First Up?
- The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times already localize some advertising, delivering inserts or print ads aimed at specific areas within their national footprints. Material syndicated by the WSJ also appears in the Sunday business sections of some papers on branded pages. Now, the NYT reports,...
- External links 2009-09-05
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