6 posts and columns on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Kerkorian Preparing a Return to Movies

in Voices on January 29 at 8:02 pm PT

Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian is plotting a Hollywood comeback.

BoomTown's 1998 Rob Glaser Profile: A Web Pioneer Does a Delicate Dance With Microsoft

in News on January 14, 2010 at 11:48 am PT

BoomTown did an interview last night with outgoing RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser after the announcement yesterday of his departure from the company he founded and led for 16 years. That will be posted later today, but here is a profile I wrote about Glaser when I was covering the Internet for The Wall Street Journal. It’s from Feb. 12, 1998, and focuses on Glaser’s decidedly complicated relationship with his former employer, Microsoft.
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Gates: Sucker MCs Jealous of the Rhyme and the Rhyme Routine

in News on January 7, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Gates at CES: Big Pimpin'

in News on January 6, 2008 at 5:59 pm PT

Tonight, tech’s highest roller gave what may have been his final Vegas performance. Sadly, it was far from his most memorable. All glitz and very little glory–certainly not the sort of glory befitting such an iconic figure. In the end, the memory of the event that lingers longest is not Gates reflecting on his storied [...]

Gates at CES: Big Pimpin’

in News on January 6, 2008 at 5:59 pm PT

Tonight, tech’s highest roller gave what may have been his final Vegas performance. Sadly, it was far from his most memorable. All glitz and very little glory–certainly not the sort of glory befitting such an iconic figure. In the end, the memory of the event that lingers longest is not Gates reflecting on his storied [...]

Movielink Tapped to Star in Blockbuster Remake of Netflix Business Plan

in News on August 9, 2007 at 5:35 am PT

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods. Netflix invented a 100 percent better mousetrap that Blockbuster copied. – Netflix spokesperson Steve Swasey, April 5, 2006 Apparently, Blockbuster isn’t as hopelessly tethered to its VHS rental-business past as you might think. Yesterday, the video-rental retailer acquired studio-owned movie download [...]