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Yahoo under pressure after Microsoft walks out
Posted by Reuters on 05 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Business
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By Reuters As Microsoft pulls out of talks over a $47.5bn takeover of Yahoo, the latter faces growing pressure to find an alternative strategy to keep its share price afloat. |
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Cablevision May Bid As Much As $650 Million For Newsday
Posted by Wall Street Journal on 02 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, News Corp, Tribune Co., Newspapers, Wall Street Journal, Business
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By Vishesh Kumar and Sam Schechner, Wall Street Journal Cablevision’s bid could give the cable operator the lead in the auction of the newspaper. |
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Most Papers Again Report Big Declines In Circulation
Posted by AP on 29 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism, Newspapers, Business
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By AP Almost every newspaper in the top 20 posted declines, according to figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. |
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Opening Bell: Journal Editor Quits
Posted by Columbia Journalism Review on 22 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, Business, Economy
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By Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review Murdoch era now in full flower; is Newsday next? |
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Rupert Murdoch, Sam Zell Appointed To AP Board Of Directors
Posted by AP on 15 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Rupert Murdoch, Business, Media
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By AP Roupert Murdoch and Sam Zell are among four new members joining the board of directors of The Associated Press. |
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Microsoft Threatens To Turn Yahoo Bid Hostile
Posted by LA Times on 07 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Business, yahoo
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By Joseph Menn, LA Times It may launch a proxy war and lower its offer if a deal isn’t reached in three weeks. |
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Social Network For Journalists Gets $2.75M In Financing
Posted by FolioMag on 01 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, New Media, Business, Internet
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By Matt Kinsman, FolioMag The service is currently in private beta test and will use the funding to finish building out its platform and hire additional staffers. |
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Banks Defend Clear Channel Funding Effort
Posted by Wall Street Journal on 01 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Judicial, Clear Channel, Business
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By Peter Lattman and Matthew Karnitschnig, Wall Street Journal Banks accused buyout firms Thomas H. Lee Partners LP and Bain Capital Partners LLC of blindsiding them with a lawsuit while they were in the middle of negotiating the deal. |
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Wall Street Week: How Bush Rolled the Press
Posted by NY Observer on 26 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Economics, Business, Economy
The terrorists must’ve been kicking themselves for not being the first to think of subprime-mortgage-backed securities as a sure way to cripple the US.
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Tribune said to be in talks to sell Newsday
Posted by LA Times on 21 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, Newspapers, Business, Media
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By Thomas S. Mulligan, LA Times News Corp. seeks to buy the Long Island newspaper as its owner tries to pare debt and posts a 78.8-million-dollar loss in the fourth quarter. |
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Red Ink Rising
Posted by Columbia Journalism Review on 14 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism, Business, Media Analysis
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By Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review How the press missed a sea change in the credit-card industry. |
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Murdoch Marches Into Mideast
Posted by Variety.com on 14 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Television, Business
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By Ali Jaafar, Variety News Corp. is launching two English-language, free-to-air satcasters in the region this year in partnership with Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal’s regional media titan Rotana. |
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In Struggle For Control Of IAC, Malone Criticizes Pay Given To Diller
Posted by Bloomberg on 11 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Business
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By Sophia Pearson and Jef Feeley, Bloomberg News John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, criticized IAC/InterActiveCorp chairman and chief executive Barry Diller for reaping more than $1 billion in compensation as the Internet and media company lost value. |
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Senators Seek To Cancel Easing Of Cross-Ownership
Posted by LA Times on 06 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Newspapers, Business, Licensing
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By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times Tribune Co. and other companies with newspapers and broadcast stations in the same city are expected to fight legislation that seeks to invalidate a recent FCC ruling. |
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