Kara Swisher in News on April 4 at 6:22 am PT
CEO Scott Thompson promises that Yahoo, after staff cuts of 14 percent of the entire workforce, will be “smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require.”
Kara Swisher in News on April 3 at 3:16 pm PT
A dark day will probably dawn by tomorrow in Sunnyvale.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 6 at 6:22 am PT
Here’s the Netflix-style video service that Verizon wouldn’t talk about a couple months ago — a joint venture with Redbox, which has an uneasy relationship with a lot of big media companies.
John Paczkowski in News on December 26, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
Sony sells off its nearly 50 percent stake in its LCD manufacturing joint venture with Samsung.
Kara Swisher in News on January 10, 2011 at 9:30 am PT
Yahoo is hiring former News Corp. and Disney online exec Mickie Rosen to run its Audience unit, which includes the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s powerful content sites, sources said.
Rosen will report to Americas head Ross Levinsohn, who has worked with her before, both at News Corp. and Fuse Capital.
The move is Levinsohn’s first management rejiggering since he took over last year, and there is likely to be more to come.
Kara Swisher in News on November 15, 2010 at 12:09 am PT
Amy Banse, currently the president of Comcast Interactive Media, is shifting into a job as head of a new Silicon Valley-based equity fund aimed at making digital investments for the television cable giant, as well as its new NBC Universal unit, according to sources with knowledge of the plans.
As part of the shift, sources said, Banse will be charged with combining two existing corporate investment funds: NBC U’s Peacock Equity and Comcast Interactive Capital.
Voices
Russell Adams, Reporter, the Wall Street Journal in News on November 11, 2010 at 5:56 pm PT
Newsweek magazine and news website The Daily Beast have agreed to a deal that will make Daily Beast co-founder Tina Brown the editor-in-chief of the combined operation, according to people familiar with the situation, three weeks after they abandoned talks of a merger over a disagreement about control.
Kara Swisher in News on July 28, 2010 at 11:28 pm PT
Online games phenom Zynga and Japanese Internet and telecom giant SoftBank announced a joint venture to develop and distribute social games across Japan.
The new Tokyo-based service will be called Zynga Japan and is Zynga’s first foray into that country.
The companies also said SoftBank had completed a $150 million investment in Zynga, which had been previously reported.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 24, 2010 at 7:28 pm PT
Some of you may finally get a chance to pay for Hulu. The video Web site is finalizing plans to launch its subscription service, and people familiar with the company say a beta test of “Hulu Plus” could launch as early as next week.
If you’re in a select group, that is. One person familiar with the joint venture says the initial test could be limited to 10,000 people.
