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Take the Money and Run? Twitter Shareholders Now Mulling Cash-Out Offer From DST.

Kara Swisher in Social on August 31, 2011 at 10:13 am PT

To sell or not to sell any of their shares is the question facing Twitter stakeholders right now, as the second $400 million part of the company’s funding by Russia’s DST Global nears completion.

Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Via a Cool IPO: The Delicious Irony of Myspace, Zynga and Owen Van Natta

Kara Swisher in News on July 3, 2011 at 9:00 am PT

How’s this for irony: It was less than a year and a half ago that Owen Van Natta was ousted from his job as CEO of Myspace. But last week — just as the failed social networking site sold for a paltry $35 million — Van Natta could have bought it himself for a fraction of his stake in Zynga, the social gaming phenom that just filed for its IPO and where he’s a top exec and shareholder.

In Their Own Words: Comcast’s Case for–and Against–an NBCU Deal

Peter Kafka in Media on October 1, 2009 at 4:16 am PT

Comcast says it doesn’t have a deal to buy NBC Universal. Does it want to buy NBC Universal? Ask COO Steve Burke and you’re going to get a confusing answer.