- Weather Channel Bidding: NBC Has Competition
Around the Net In Media, Joan Voight - Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Bids for the Weather Channel are in, and despite reports that a consortium of NBC Universal, Blackstone Group and Bain Capital are in the lead; sources tell CNBC "talk ...
- Unsealed Shareholder Complaint Puts More Pressure On Yahoo
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Tuesday, June 3, 2008
A Delaware court unsealed a complaint filed by Yahoo shareholders claiming that a severance plan adopted by the Web giant was designed to quash Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid. The severan ...
- Moguls on Microhoo: Get A Deal Done
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Kara Swisher, purveyor/co-host of last week's D Conference, which saw the likes of News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, and Yahoo's Jerry Yang discuss (among oth ...
- Collective Media Beefs Up Ad Targeting Services
Online Media Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Ad network and technology provider
Collective Media has acquired Personifi, a provider of audience targeting technology to Web publishers, ad networks and mobile providers. Terms were not disclosed ...
- You Don't Need To Be A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Bidding Blows
MediaDailyNews, - Monday, June 2, 2008
NBC Universal, in partnership with private equity firms Blackstone Group and Bain Capital, are the leading bidders to acquire The Weather Channel, one of the last of the last ful ...
- Murdoch "Mystified" By Microhoo Failure
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Thursday, May 29, 2008
PaidContent.org records plenty of sound bytes from Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch, speaking at his own show, the sixth annual D Conference, hosted by All Things Digital bloggers Ka ...
- Yang: Microsoft Not Interested In Merger
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Thursday, May 29, 2008
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang on Wednesday admitted that Microsoft is no longer interested in a potential merger, but the two sides are still talking about a potential tie-up. "Microsoft ...
- Time Warner Cable Eyes Charter
MediaDailyNews, - Thursday, May 29, 2008
According to The Deal, Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield thinks Time Warner Cable Inc. may pick up Charter Communications after it splits from Time Warner Inc. ...
- ComScore Acquires M:Metrics, Fuels Mobile Expansion
Online Media Daily, - Thursday, May 29, 2008
ComScore, Inc. has acquired M:Metrics, Inc., a leader in mobile measurement. The acquisition makes comScore the immediate leader in measuring the emerging and strategically important mobile Internet market and ad ...
- Where the Deals Are--Funding May Be Optional
On Media, Diane Mermigas - Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Strategic buyers with cash reserves and needy sellers with strained balance sheets will continue driving media and Internet deals. However, the rush remains on hold until banks and private equi ...
- FaceTime Acquires Concise Marketing Solutions
Online Media Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Washington-based digital marketing agency FaceTime Strategy, LLC has acquired the Dallas, Texas-based direct marketing firm Concise Marketing Solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ...
- Family Drama Behind The InBev, Anheuser-Busch Deal
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, May 27, 2008
As Belgian giant InBev considers an unsolicited bid for Anheuser-Busch -- an offer that could top $45 billion, say analysts, making it the largest beer acquisition in history-at least o ...
- More Cable Mergers After Weather Channel Deal
Around the Net In Media, Joan Voight - Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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- Gates, Others Not Feeling Microhoo
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Tuesday, May 27, 2008
You probably noticed that we didn't hear much from Bill Gates during Microsoft's three-month pursuit of Yahoo. Sources tell BoomTown's Kara Swisher this is because the Microsoft chairman never car ...
- Will NBCU and Time Warner Marry?
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Those pesky Time Warner-NBC Universal merge stories won't go away. With NBC in the ratings basement and Time Warner flush with billions in cash from its spinoff of its Ti ...
- SheKnows Acquires PregnancyFashion, CelebrityPregnancy
Online Media Daily, - Tuesday, May 27, 2008
SheKnows.com has acquired PregnancyFashion.com and CelebrityPregnancy.com, providing hip moms with the latest news and trends in maternity apparel and expecting celebrity parents. The baby boom in Hollywood has incited ...
- Yahoo Postpones Annual Meeting
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Friday, May 23, 2008
Yahoo has postponed its annual meeting from July 3 to "around the end of July," citing a planned proxy fight by Carl Icahn and the need for regulators to revi ...
- Yahoo Comes 'Round, Then Stalls Again
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Friday, May 23, 2008
Sources tell Kara Swisher that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is taking a more "realistic" attitude toward the situation facing the company, and that both he and fellow co-founder David Fi ...
- Lawmaker Voices Privacy Concerns In Letter To Google
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 23, 2008
A high-ranking lawmaker is pressuring Google to address privacy issues stemming from its acquisition of DoubleClick earlier this year. In a letter sent to Google CEO Eric Schmidt this wee ...
- U.S. Media Beating Europe in Online Deals
Around the Net In Media, Joan Voight - Thursday, May 22, 2008
Traditional media companies in Europe should buy more online properties because acquisition-hungry U.S. companies are snapping up some of the best European companies, according to venture capitalist Saul Klein. Europe ...
- Publicis Puts The 'I' In China: Acquires Leading Digital Shop, Rebrands It Leo Burnett
Online Media Daily, Joe Mandese - Thursday, May 22, 2008
Publicis Groupe is tapping one of Madison Avenue's oldest brands - Leo Burnett - as the flagship for its newest, and potentially biggest digital marketplace: China. Publicis, the Paris-based pare ...
- Icahn Gains Support From All But Microsoft
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Wednesday, May 21, 2008
As Carl Icahn receives
support for his Yahoo proxy battle from such financial heavyweights as oil guru T. Boone Pickens, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, speaking in Israel Wednesday, reiterat ...
- Microsoft: We're On Track To Become Ad Giant
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Tuesday, May 20, 2008
When Microsoft execs gather with advertisers and publishers at the software giant's annual advertising summit this week, they will be asked to explain how the company plans to move forwa ...
- Microsoft's Move Rankles Icahn
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Ars Technica says the MicroHoo saga, which has dragged on for about as long as the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination, isn't anywhere close to being over. Microsoft ...
- Digital Dealmakers Revisit Risk/Reward Options
On Media, Diane Mermigas - Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Yahoo's fate is now all about the rewards for activist investors like Carl Icahn, the risks for Microsoft and the chaotic state of shifting valuations. A proposed Yahoo deal ...
- Micro Who? Everyone Seems To Be Getting In On This Act
Online Media Daily, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, May 20, 2008
As the online industry's favorite soap opera enters its 18th week, a myriad of new characters - and storylines - are emerging in Microsoft's battle for Yahoo. The latest chapt ...
- Microsoft Pursuing "Lost Cause" Yahoo Search Deal
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Monday, May 19, 2008
Microsoft on Sunday issued a statement indicating an openness to return to the bargaining table with Yahoo, even though the software giant walked away from negotiations to acquire the compa ...
- Rapper 50 Cent May Become Big News Corp. Shareholder
MediaDailyNews, - Monday, May 19, 2008
Rapper 50 Cent may be signing a deal with MySpace Records for $300 million. ...
- Nielsen Acquires IAG, Expands Research Arm
MediaDailyNews, - Monday, May 19, 2008
The Nielsen Company has acquired IAG Research, a company that measures consumer engagement with TV programs, national commercials and product placements. ...
- Microsoft, Yahoo Reboot Talks
Online Media Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Monday, May 19, 2008
Microsoft and Yahoo are back at the negotiating table, according to a
statement issued by Microsoft on Sunday. Microsoft began courting Yahoo Feb. 1 and withdrew its $47.5 billi ...
