5 posts and columns on Time Warner Investments

Twitter While You Watch TV? Bluefin Labs Is Watching.

in Media on January 24 at 6:00 am PT

And the marketing start-up has just raised another $12 million. Think about that the next time you fire off a comment during an NFL game.
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Exclusive: Wal-Mart Paid $300 Million-Plus for Kosmix

in News on April 18, 2011 at 5:46 pm PT

According to sources close to the situation, retail giant Wal-mart paid just over $300 million in cash for Kosmix, an acquisition announced earlier today. That’s a big price for the six-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which has built a social media platform that organizes content by topic and had raised $55 million from a large group of Silicon Valley venture firms.

Wal-Mart Acquires Kosmix to Move Into Social and Mobile

in Commerce on April 18, 2011 at 10:18 am PT

Wal-Mart is buying Kosmix, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that has built a social media platform that organizes content by topic.

Veoh's Dmitry Shapiro Speaks!

in News on June 23, 2008 at 6:30 am PT

Recently, while I was at a conference in Los Angeles, I caught up with Veoh Founder Dmitry Shapiro. BoomTown will be focusing a lot on online video this year and Veoh is one of the several online video sharing sites–a group of smaller players that includes sites like Joost, Hulu, Dailymotion, Vimeo and others that I like to call not-YouTube. Still, it is making progress. Today, the Los Angeles-based Veoh announced that the ABC television network would put full episodes of its hot primetime shows–such as “Ugly Betty” (love it) and “Desperate Housewives” (not so much)–up on the site.

Yahoo Players Burkle, Icahn, Crawford and Also the Web Make Some News (Some, Not So Good)

in News on June 4, 2008 at 6:06 am PT

You would have to have been under a rock not to have heard about the controversial piece in Vanity Fair magazine this month about the troubling personal and professional escapades of former President Bill Clinton since he left office. And the reason for these disturbing developments, besides Clinton himself? The piece actually placed a good bit of the blame on Clinton’s close friend, grocery magnate and billionaire Ron Burkle, who also has been one of the key directors at Yahoo in its takeover fight with Microsoft.
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