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There’s a lot Skyhook can tell about you based on the Wi-Fi networks you cross everyday. It’s putting that info to work with a more refined set of geofencing and profiling tools for advertisers and developers.
Cable subscribers are starting to get access to YouTube and other online video services, thanks to cloud-based technology that brings modern apps to legacy set-top boxes.
Charter offered to buy Time Warner Cable in a deal valued at more than $61 billion. So far Time Warner Cable has said no thanks, but here’s what’s behind John Malone’s persistence.
The Dutch cable market may be about to see some major consolidation, as the biggest broadband provider outside China continues its expansion plans.
At Barnes & Noble’s annual shareholder meeting in New York Tuesday, company execs said they’re still open to spinning off the Nook business, but it sounds as if a buyer has not come along.
Internet is abuzz with news stories of pending media mergers and rumors of cable company consolidations are doing the rounds on Wall Street. Most importantly cable cowboy John Malone is back in action. Let me tell you about the “why” behind this excitement.
America’s No. 3 pay network faces a tough future alone, with studio deals that will require renewing, expensive original series production needs, and a challenging pay TV market that necessitates leverage in order to get carried. But Starz could be a jewel for the right buyer.
The evolution of premium cable TV beyond the living room took another step this week, with Showtime introducing a streaming app to rival HBO…
Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI), flying high on a brighter balance sheet, received more good news after a California judge tossed a class action laws…
Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) likes to tout its large and diverse offerings — though sometimes it’s hard to tell if the company is talking about i…
It is not the outright buy that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) was hoping for, but *Liberty Media* is making a strategic investment of $204 mill…
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Earnings: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) reported better-than-expected, if small, growth in servic…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) CEO John Malone finally broke his silence on the company’s possible acquisition of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) at…
As Barnes & Noble’s board reviews a bid from Liberty Media to acquire the company, it still has to focus on the here-and-now of running a bu…
We’d expected that Liberty Media’s bid for Barnes & Noble would be the most talked-about topic this week at BookExpo America, the largest tr…
Bankrupt Borders needs a sale the most but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which put itself in play last August, is the book retailer with a ser…
IAC (NSDQ: IACI), which rejiggered its operations during the most recent quarter, laying off employees at its search business and swapping E…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) is shutting down its fantasy sports site Fanball. A message that went up on the site earlier this week, which wa…
The ringtones market ain’t what it used to be, but there’s life in it yet: Mobile Streams, a mobile content outfit part-owned by Liberty Med…
Two moves today for IAC (NSDQ: IACI) that most companies would separate but in this case decided to pair: Barry Diller has stepped aside as…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA), which had said five months ago it was evaluating “strategic alternatives” for Starz’s Overture Films division,…
In keeping with the general trend of cable companies getting through the recession largely unscathed, Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) posted sol…
Vivek Shah, who left Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) as digital head at news division of Time Inc. last November, has been named as an independent boa…
The end could be near for bankrupt satellite radio firm WorldSpace. The company put out a terse statement this afternoon saying that its “st…
Financial news site TheStreet.com may have finished the year with a loss of $45.5 million — compared with 2008’s $2.4 million profit — the…
Two months after hiring former HBO CEO Chris Albrecht to oversee Starz as part of an original programming push, Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA)…
Zynga, the current social gaming behemoth, is using some of its money to do acquisitions: it has bought Serious Business, creators of social…
Zynga’s social games — which are already played by upwards of 230 million people each month — are about to get even more reach. The compan…
At the start of TheStreet.com’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Daryl Otte finally acknowledged that the company bought mobile and interactive agency…
— Welcome to the iPhone, HBO: The premium cable network has launched an iPhone app that gives users show snippets and a program guide, but…
The year-end exec lockdown continues, Yesterday, Steve Burke and other top Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) execs got extensions to keep them on board…
Seemingly unfazed by a looming class-action lawsuit triggered by allegations of misleading ads, social gamer Zynga has launched FarmVille.co…
Michael White, the PepsiCo vet who takes over as president and CEO of DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) Jan. 1, could make more than $35 million during hi…
Offer-based ads seemed to be the secret to monetizing social games — and social network users, in general — that standard banner ads could…
Five months after Chase Carey returned to News Corp (NYSE: NWS). as deputy chairman and COO, DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) finally has a successor as…
What … me worry about “scammy” ad accusations? Social gamer Zynga may be struggling with an image problem stemming from its offer-based in…
More fallout from the media backlash surrounding the performance-based ads that social gaming companies like Zynga have been using to moneti…
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has joined Greylock Partners as an investing partner, and the VC firm — which currently backs Pandora and Isr…
Social gamer Zynga has acquired GoPets, a gaming company that lets people create and train virtual pets, according to Virtual Goods News. We…
The sound of ticking as Vivendi SA (EPA: VIV) decides whether or not to sell its 20 percent stake in *NBC Universal* during this year’s wind…
Facebook may be the stickiest social network here in the U.S. — but LinkedIn is thought to be the default network for a “professional” prof…
TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) missed filing its Q209 earnings report — and has been cited by Nasdaq for the deficiency. What’s holding up the…
Social gaming company Zynga has acquired MyMiniLife, a Palo Alto-based social entertainment firm that lets users create and decorate virtual…
Social media has made it much easier for companies to tap into the crowd for everything from Wikipedia entries, to serial thrillers, and eve…
Reid Hoffman, who stepped in the CEO of LinkedIn only six months ago, has stepped down again, and Jeff Weiner, the former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)…
— Zynga: The social gaming company continues to bulk up. On the heels of hiring *Yahoo* vet Vish Makhijani (whose title will be SVP of cas…
Former *Yahoo* search GM Vish Makhijani is on the move again; he’s joining social gaming company Zynga in a “senior operating role,” TechCru…
You often hear about how different Facebook and MySpace’s user bases are. Well, maybe they’re not so distinct after all. Yahoo is the No. 1…
Elevated interest in Wall St. since the global market meltdown this past fall hasn’t necessarily translated into financial win for TheStreet…
No excuses. We should have picked up on this earlier. A sharp-eyed reader sent along today’s PicksPal blast promoting the “new PicksPal” and…
In a rather surprising timing, the longtime CEO of TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) Thomas Clarke is leaving the company, it was announced this mo…
More evidence of how lucrative the social gaming space has become: EA digital media exec Brandon Barber has jumped ship to Zynga. Barber wil…
When Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) bailed out Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) Satellite Radio in mid-February with a loan of $530 million, the investme…
John Malone is one of the great sharks of the media world, and so when he loaned Sirius XM $530 million earlier this month, no one thought i…
Driven by weak sales at its home-shopping channel QVC, Liberty Media Interactive (NSDQ: LINTA) reported a 4 percent drop in revenues to $2.4…
While the recession has been great for financial news’ companies audience numbers, that traffic hasn’t translated into profits and revenues.…
The 8K on Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) released this morning in conjunction with the announcement of Liberty Media’s investment offers some additi…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) has reached a deal to invest $530 million in Sirius XM, ending weeks of speculation over whether Liberty or Echo…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) will offer Sirius XM a $250 million secured loan designed to “rescue” the company from the advances of EchoStar…
The Sirius/Echostar drama took a new turn last night with reports that John Malone
Charlie Ergen’s top competitor may get in the way of his efforts to take control of Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) Radio. Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) sold another 46,000 shares of IAC stock, according to
By Jemima Kiss: LinkedIn continues to buck the recession business trend of slimming down by expanding out, today announcing the launch of a…
Jay Hoag, the long-time general partner of PE/VC firm Technology Crossover Ventures, has quit the board of TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM), accor…
In a major executive shuffle, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is reclaiming his role as CEO and bringing former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Jeff Weiner…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) CEO Greg Maffei said a proposed split-off of DirecTV and other assets should be completed by May, pending regula…
In typical Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) fashion, the company founded by John Malone has just filed a complicated business plan with the SEC o…
Google’s head of its mobile efforts, Deep Nishar, has left the company, and is joining the heavily backed LinkedIn as VP of product manageme…
— Online video aggregator Veoh is cutting about 20 percent of its workforce — or about 20 employees. The layoffs will impact the San Diego…
Wall Street’s losses have turned partly into TheStreet.com’s gains, as traffic surged to an all-time high over the course of Q3 — and ad re…
Talk of a Yahoo-AOL combo has once again heated up, but what becomes of the access business? Its final home could still be Liberty Media (NS…
Another media partnership for LinkedIn, which is striving to be more than a place to check contacts. This time it’s CNBC and the business so…
LinkedIn is on a Hollywood PR offensive, and positioning itself as the place where out-of-work and freelance creative professionals: it star…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) Chairman John Malone, a maestro of the tax-efficient deal, said the company could be interested in swapping its…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) president and CEO Greg Maffei said that the company sought to “take advantage of market weakness” in Q2 and so…
Employees of social networking giants Facebook and LinkedIn aren’t likely to get any liquidity event (IPO, sale) any time soon. By this poin…
How did TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) manage to report a pretty solid quarter, in light of ad weakness and the market downdraft? CEO Tom Clarke…
Considering all the natural challenges TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) is facing, this looks like a solid quarter… Q2 revenue came in at $19.7…
Just when Fortune did a long story on Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers not investing in the Internet and Web 2.0 world anymore, the venerabl…
Ed. Note: The following post has been corrected to more accurately reflect the report structure. We regret the error.
Starz, the cable TV…
Another e-commerce buy for Liberty Media… this time it is buying out small, publicly traded Celebrate Express, a party supply retailer, fo…
Patrick Crumb, the SVP at Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS), and GM of sports site network Scout Media, which FIM bought in 2005, has left t…
LinkedIn is getting a lot of media attention following the big raise it announced last night… speaking on CNBC, Jeff Glass, partner at Bai…
LinkedIn has closed its big round, which it had been working on for a while now in the midst of fielding some acquisition offers from strate…
Updated with video clips, after the jump, courtesy of AllThingsD:
Barry Diller is on stage at D conference, speaking about the Liberty spat…
As stated in the joint announcement IAC (NSDQ: IACI) has filed a long 10-12B document detailing the spin off of four of its subsidiaires. St…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) and IAC (NSDQ: IACI) have officially settled their differences; Liberty agreed to drop its appeal as long as it…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) and IAC have settled their highly publicized differences, the two companies announced in a joint statement withi…
Portfolio dishes up yet another in-depth, not-so-deep look at IAC (NSDQ: IACI) chairman and CEO Barry Diller, the man, the myth … you know…
Buried in the 10-Q discussion of legal proceedings, confirmation from Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) that it filed an appeal with Delaware Chan…
At the Needham Internet and Digital Media Conference, Thomas Clarke, CEO of TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM), gave an almost identical presentatio…
Maybe it’s just the time of day but looking at Liberty Media’s (NSDQ: LINTA) Q1 earnings and listening to the call is making my head hurt. W…
It looks like the clock has run out on Liberty if it wants to appeal the ruling it lost to IAC: according to IAC’s (NSDQ: IACI) just-filed 1…
This has been in the works for a while and now drum beats suggest it’s close at hand. LinkedIn, the big business networking site, is close t…
Professional social network LinkedIn is getting serious about expanding outside the US to help grow its share of the social net market. In J…
With IAC (NSDQ: IACI) having defeated Liberty in court, CEO Barry Diller’s spin plan can go through as planned. As such, said Diller: “What…
Broadening financial info site TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) announced Q1 revenue of $18.9 million, a 31 percent year-over-year increase from $…
TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) has taken what it’s calling an “initial” equity stake worth $1.2 million in personal finance community site Geeze…
Putting an end to a series of stop-gap two-month employment contracts, TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) has signed its most famous employee — and…
TheStreet.com and AOL (NYSE: TWX) are expanding their relationship with a three-year deal that includes the company’s homegrown personal fin…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA), which recently traded its stake in News Corp (NYSE: NWS). for 41 percent of DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) has bought an a…
Congrats on the court win, now about that share price. During the trial, Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) lawyer Kevin Abrams badgered Barry Dill…
Delaware Chancery Court Judge Stephen Lamb delivered a 79-page memorandum opinion and order late Friday afternoon in favor of Barry Diller a…
A Delaware chancery court judge has ruled in favor of Barry Diller and his rights to vote Liberty Media’s (NSDQ: LINTA) proxy on IAC’s (NSDQ…
A Delaware chancery court judge has ruled in favor of Barry Diller, allowing him to keep his voting rights for Liberty Media’s (NSDQ: LINTA)…
Via a special arrangement with CourtroomLive … a small taste of Barry Diller’s testimony this week in Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) v. IAC…
Note: We’ll be posting video clips this afternoon.
The morning session of Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) v. IAC (NSDQ: IACI) in Delaware Chanc…
From the Liberty Media-IAC (NSDQ: IACI) trial … Liberty attorney Kevin Abrams asked Barry Diller if, as a sailor, he understood what it me…
Picking up from Liberty Media-IAC: Diller On The Stand Back at the Liberty Media-IAC (NSDQ: IACI) trial after recess and the questions are f…
Not trying for a transcript here by any means .. Barry Diller is on the stand in Delaware Chancery Court under direct examination following…
Barry Diller is expected to testify today in the Liberty Media-IAC (NSDQ: IACI) Delaware Chancery Court trial that could decide his fate as…
If Barry Diller was hoping to mollify his troops on today’s hearing with the memo, well, the hearing itself has started off testy. Liberty M…
Unless you’re an employee of IAC (NSDQ: IACI), you’re probably reading this here first … we’ve obtained an emailed memo from IAC chairman…
Liberty Interactive revenue in Q4 increased 6 percent in the quarter to $2.33 billion from $2.23 billion, driven mainly from results at QVC.…
LinkedIn, a network of 19 million professionals, is now providing a mobile version of its site available at m.linkedin.com from mobile Inter…
TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) reported Q4 revenue of $19.9 million, a year-over-year increase of 38 percent from $14.4 million. Net income grew…
TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) has gone Fox Business on us: it has launched its MainStreet.com site, aimed at what it says: the general public o…
Updated below: The IAC-Liberty dispute (or Diller-Malone, if you think it’s all personal) is long past the point of getting ugly. In its lat…
The WSJ is reporting that Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) has today gone to court to pry Barry Diller loose from his post as chairman and CEO of…
It didn’t take long for John Malone and Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) to swing back at Barry Diller and IAC’s (NSDQ: IACI) effort to get a dec…
You just knew this was going to get complicated given that Barry Diller and John Malone are involved. Lehman Brothers’ Doug Anmuth is out wi…
Not that this is a surprise, but LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has finally admitted it has been having talks with the “usual suspects” for a…
In November, financial news site TheStreet.com announced the acquisition of Bankers Financial Products Corporation, the parent company of Ba…
John Malone’s Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) has acquired an additional 14 million shares of IAC (NSDQ: IACI), raising its stake in the company…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) is beefing up its online portfolio, in more ways than one: it is buying a majority stake in sports nutrition and…
Beliefnet, the NYC-based multi-faith community site which has been around since 1999 and has gone through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, has finally…
Of all the companies present at the UBS Global Media Conference Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) was likely the only one that required a minute-l…
With rumors flying about a possible sale of LinkedIn to News Corp., (NYSE: NWS) Dan Nye, CEO of the professional social networking site, tol…
Last week, TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) announced that it had sold a minority stake in itself to PE/VC firm TCV for $55 million. In an 8-K fil…
TheStreet.com just announced a $55 million investment from PE/VC firm Technology Crossover Ventures in exchange for a minority stake in the…
When we scheduled our recent Future of Business Media conference, we knew we were in the decade year for a number of web enterprises, includ…
Liberty Media, (NSDQ: LINTA) whose shareholders recently approved plans to split its Liberty Capital Group into two tracking stocks, announc…
Financial news site TheStreet.com announced Q3 revenue of $16.1 million, up 24 percent over last year’s $12.9 million. Excluding a big one-t…
TheStreet.com is acquiring Bankers Financial Products Corp., the parent company of BankingMyWay and RateWatch, for $25 million in cash and s…
Shareholders of Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA), the media holding company, have approved the previously announced plan to split Liberty Capital…
