Kara Swisher in News on January 4 at 7:01 am PT
Mind your P’s and Q’s and Y’s too!
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 28, 2011 at 11:01 pm PT
EMoney took a side trip this morning from the massive crowds gathering at Moscone in downtown San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference to Japantown, where there was an equally vibrant, albeit slightly smaller, conference called the Future of Money.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 2, 2011 at 1:17 pm PT
Here’s the flip side to News Corp.’s digital optimism: The company has taken a $275 million charge on Myspace and its related Web businesses, it disclosed in today’s quarterly earnings report.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 13, 2010 at 6:55 am PT
Anyone have anything they want to sell to Condé Nast? The publisher is officially in shopping mode: It has hired an M&A guy from Yahoo and raised $500 million to get him started.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 2, 2010 at 10:38 am PT
LimeWire, the high-profile file-sharing company, more or less shut down in October, following a federal court ruling. But the last bits of the company seem to be going away: Its online music store will be shuttered at the end of the month, and I’m told that plans to launch a new music service have been shelved.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 14, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
When it comes to creating profiles on its would-be social network, Apple doesn’t want music acts thinking
that differently.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 1, 2010 at 9:17 am PT
Another marker in Tim Armstrong’s campaign to undo just about every part the old regime at AOL: The company has sold Buy.at, an affiliate marketing company it bought two years ago. Meanwhile, we’re still waiting to hear what happens to ICQ, among other assets.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 26, 2010 at 5:21 am PT
Sellaband, the Dutch company that lets fans “invest” in musician’s albums, is back, after a brief dip into bankruptcy.
Kara Swisher in News on January 25, 2010 at 9:24 am PT
Sorry for the break in grading Yahoo’s Carol Bartz on her one-year anniversary as CEO.
But BoomTown was swanning around the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this weekend, went partying with those boozy Hollywood types and ended up in Provo with the crazy gals from “The Runaways”!
I
wish! Actually, running away from issuing any grade for deal-making for Bartz is a pretty good way to put it.
Because today, after much thought, I have to give the Yahoo leader an incomplete for deal-making.
John Paczkowski in News on January 21, 2010 at 4:10 am PT
The European Commission this morning unconditionally approved Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems, removing one of the last hurdles to the $7.4 billion deal. Digital Daily reported Monday that people close to the companies expected the EC to clear the deal by today.
