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Wal-Mart, Target Limiting Redbox DVD Purchases

in News on February 3, 2010 at 2:11 pm PT

Coinstar faces a new challenge to the Redbox workaround. As Business Week reports, first Target and now Wal-Mart have imposed strict limits on the number of DVDs any one customer can buy at one time.

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BusinessWeek Attracts 93 Bidders

in News on September 8, 2009 at 1:39 pm PT

McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw said the company has received interest from 93 potential buyers for Business Week, Bloomberg reports. In an interview on Bloomberg Television, he said interested parties include private equity, hedge funds and strategic buyers. “Everybody’s involved,” he said.

To Sell or Not to Sell–That Was the Question for Twitter (But Was Its Answer Right?)

in News on November 25, 2008 at 3:51 am PT

There are two schools of thought about Twitter’s decision not to sell itself to Facebook, as it did not in the fail-whale of a deal that BoomTown reported on yesterday. Here’s my favorite quote from an Internet exec who thought the microblogging service’s decision to turn down $500 million in stock (and some cash) in the hot social-networking site was–how can I put this delicately?–stupid: “If Twitter turned down 500m in stock, they should go see a shrink.” But, others disagreed, with another big Web player noting: “Why should Twitter hitch itself to Facebook’s horse, when they don’t have too?”

Video of PRSA What's Hot and What's Not in Tech Event

in News on December 4, 2007 at 12:05 am PT

If you are a glutton for punishment, here is the entire video from the Public Relations Society of America’s Silicon Valley chapter’s annual “Media Influencer” dinner, held at the Computer History Museum last week. BoomTown was one of the tech writers on the panel, which was talking about what the big trends in tech in [...]

Kara Visits the Public Relations Society of America–Silicon Valley Chapter–Dinner

in News on November 29, 2007 at 1:08 am PT

Last night, the Public Relations Society of America’s Silicon Valley chapter held its annual “Media Influencer” dinner at the Computer History Museum, which featured a spate of tech journalists pitching a large room full of PR people about what’s hot in the sector. Turning the tables this year–and apparently getting “honored” by the group–were: Victoria [...]