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Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard. Today, its co-founder and...
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Will Yahoo Be In Play Again? Here's a Few Scenarios (That Could Be More Than...
One of the results of Yahoo’s weak earnings report earlier this week has been the renewal of chatter about possible changes in its leadership and even ownership. And continued investor discomfort with...
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Hulu, Networks Close To New Deal
Hulu and its network TV owners are close to a new deal that will keep programs from NBC, Fox and ABC on the Web video site. An agreement to extend the content licenses that owners News Corp., Disney...
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Yahoo's China Settlement Fails to Stem Its Stock Decline
You would think the settlement of a major dispute would goose the stock of a company, but Yahoo’s deal with its Chinese partner Alibaba Group on Friday did exactly the opposite. Despite the clearing...
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Viral Video: The CGI in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" Raises Big Box Office
It seems the computer-generated imagery in “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” convinced critics and audiences that the well-worn movie series prequel is a winner. It grabbed $54 million at the box...
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More AsiaD Speakers: Sony, Google+, Microsoft, Hollywood, Huawei and Hot SV...
After our grand tour of Asia last week — with stops in Korea and Japan — it seems like a perfect time to update the speaker list for our upcoming AsiaD conference in Hong Kong in October. As Walt...
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As Yahoo Continues to Wobble, Investors (And Board) Eye Options
When Yahoo announced on January 13, 2009, that it had hired longtime Silicon Valley tech veteran Carol Bartz to replace outgoing CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang and turn around the company, there was a...
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Exclusive: Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Tim Morse Named Interim CEO
According to sources at the company, Yahoo’s Carol Bartz is no longer CEO of Yahoo. CFO Tim Morse has been named interim CEO. The situation around what is clearly an ouster is uncertain, but Bartz has...
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My Picks for Yahoo's Next CEO -- Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?
The firing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz leaves open one of the bigger and more difficult jobs in tech — one that has taken its toll on many. Nonetheless, rapper Snoop Dogg stepped right up to the Twitter...
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Yahoo for Sale: Possible Bidders Circling -- Including Marc Andreessen -- as...
A range of major players interested in acquiring all or a large piece of Yahoo have been prepping possible bids and have been in touch with the Internet giant’s board over the last several days. While...
View ArticleAnother $85 Million for Tumblr
Tumblr, the booming blogging platform that has yet to spend much time generating revenue, now has even more time before it has to get down to business. The four-year-old company has raised an $85...
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Final AsiaD Speakers: Apple's Phil Schiller and Former VP Al Gore
And then there was Schiller and Gore. That would be Apple’s SVP of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller and former Vice President Al Gore, who round out the stellar list of speakers at our...
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Not So Much on a Microsoft Bid for Yahoo (They're Crazy, But Not That Crazy)
Is this investment-banker-hype week and nobody told me? It certainly seems so from all the almost ridonkulous rumors about everyone and their mother being “imminently poised” to make a bid for Yahoo....
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The Globalization of D: All Things Digital Begins Now
And so our international expansion of D: All Thing Digital starts and we could not be more proud that it begins here in Hong Kong, with AsiaD. So why Asia? It seemed the most obvious choice for us, as...
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Peter Chernin Explains What Happened to Hulu, and Why He's in Asia
As News Corp.’s longtime chief operating officer, Peter Chernin oversaw the conglomerate’s movie and TV operations, as well as most of its forays into digital media, via ventures like Myspace and Hulu....
View ArticlePeter Chernin: Highlights From AsiaD (Video)
As News Corp.’s longtime chief operating officer, Peter Chernin was instrumental in developing Hulu. In an interview with Peter Kafka today at AsiaD, he explained why he wanted to build the video site...
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Peter Chernin on Hollywood, Asia Growth and Not Yahoo: The Full AsiaD...
We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October. We’re following the schedule of the actual event. Up now: Hollywood mogul Peter Chernin....
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Yahoo Hopes to Fight Back at Activist Shareholder Third Point With More New...
Yahoo leadership, betting it can stave off a challenge from activist shareholder Daniel Loeb of Third Point, has been stepping up efforts to name three additional new board members to replace...
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Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential...
According to sources close to the situation, Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue has approached Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and co-founder Jack Dorsey about moving off the board of Twitter. It is not...
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Exclusive: Twitter Eyeing Media Bigs, Including Hollywood Mogul Peter...
Twitter is now interviewing a series of well-known media players for its board, as the San Francisco online social communications service seeks to increase its ties to the entertainment industry,...
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