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Silicon Alley Insider:
Remember those bizarre "hologram" effects that Time Warner's (TWX) CNN used on Election night? They're now the property of a News Corp. (NWS) joint venture.Sports data company Stats, a joint venture of News Corp. and the AP, (Read More)
All Things Digital:
A nice corrective to the stories about venture capital drying up: Investors are still willing to write checks for digital ventures — particularly if they’re for media companies with hockey stick growth charts. The (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Huffington Post is close to announcing a $15 million round of financing, the Times (UK) reports. PaidContent's Rafat Ali says Oak Investment Partners is leading the round. Previous investors include SoftBank Capital and Greyc (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Back in September -- when a share of WebMD was worth around $32 -- the company announced that it would acquire QualityHealth.com parent-company Marketing Technology Solutions for $50 million and a $25 million earnout. But now (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Read up on what everyone is saying about who should or inevitibly will be Yahoo's next CEO. Then go vote for your choice or write-in a name in the comments. Writes BoomTown's Kara Swisher: "Obviously, the dream CEO for Yahoo (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Founded in 1982 and at times so rich with ads its issues reached as many as 600 pages, Ziff Davis's PC Magazine will issue its last print edition this January, thereafter becoming an online-only publication. Ziff Davis, which (Read More)
Search Engine Land:
Wait, they already have. PaidContent posted a fairly comprehensive roundup yesterday of possible successors to outgoing Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. (Yahoo is up in early trading on the news of Yang’s resignation, which was re (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Movie rental service Netflix (NFLX) has been signing up gadget companies left and right to distribute its Internet movie streams, ranging from LG to Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox and TiVo (TIVO). And it recently hired a new executive (Read More)
Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge:
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- The premium movie channel joint venture between Viacom/Paramount Pictures,
MGM and Lionsgate, has received about $34 million so far from its partners,
PaidContent reported, citing a regulatory filing.read more. (Read More)
Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge:
Los Angeles
- Current TV, the multiplatform media company backed by former Vice President
Al Gore, has laid off about 60 employees, PaidContent reported.read more. (Read More)
NewTeeVee:
Libraries Can Download Starz Content for Free; arrangement brokered by Ohio-based OverDrive, which provides public libraries with digital content. (paidContent)Orca Partners With Yuxing for Integrated IPTV Set-top Boxes; the (Read More)
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Silicon Alley Insider:
New York Times (NYT) digital head Vivian Schiller will leave the Times Dec. 1 and join National Public Radio as CEO. At NYTimes.com, Vivian led business development, marketing, tech, classifieds, and product development.Vivi (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Time Magazine has told its employees that it needs to cut 20 jobs. The Time Inc. magazine has asked for volunteers to raise their hands by Nov. 24—two weeks from today—or it will resort to layoffs, according to a memo obtaine (Read More)
All Things Digital:
Walt Disney CFO Tom Staggs tells PaidContent that the company’s digital revenues didn’t get to the $1 billion goal the Mouse House was hoping for. Revenue was $930 million, which is “slightly less than we mi (Read More)
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