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YouTube Hopes To Reinvent Itself With Live Streaming

Posted: September 13, 2010 at 6:08 am

YouTube will undertake one of the most ambitious projects in its history. The largest video website in the world will begin to test live streaming of content. In its  blog, ...
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Who Will Replace NBCU’s Jeff Zucker?

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 1:18 pm

Jeff Zucker's departure as GE's (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal CEO is among the worst kept secrets in the history of Hollywood.  What remains a mystery, however, is who would want ...
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Media Digest 6/24/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 24, 2010 at 3:51 am

Reuters:   BP plc (NYSE: BP) began to siphon oil again. Reuters:   The Wall St. reform bill is almost done. Reuters:   Venezuela will nationalize some oil rigs owned by a US ...
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YouTube Crushes Viacom In Court

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 4:54 pm

According to Google: Today, the court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit with YouTube. This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/23/2010)

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 8:44 am

Updated throughout the day. Video site Hulu is in talks to carry content from CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS), Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA), and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX). Lloyd Blankfein ...
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Big Dividend & Buybacks Keep Coming (BG, FRX, IN, KBR, MON, VIA, WMT, CAT, FDX, TGT)

Posted: June 9, 2010 at 3:16 pm

So much for a double-dip recession, or at least that is what the waves of new share buybacks and dividend hikes from big key companies are saying.  In recent days ...
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Media Digest (4/20/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 20, 2010 at 3:54 am

Reuters:   Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) password operation was hit by cyberattacks. Reuters:   A leading political party in Germany is urging that the nation not deal with Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: ...
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Media Digest 4/16/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 3:59 am

Reuters:   The Fed backed "extending language" on rates. Reuters:   About 60% CDS could be cleared centrally according to experts. Reuters:   Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) and Symphony will link ...
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Time Warner’s New Growth Plan: Buy MGM

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 4:42 am

Time Warner (TWX) has spun out its Time Warner Cable (TWC) operation and AOL (AOL). That has left the company with TV programming, magazine, and studio assets. Wall St. has ...
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Media Digest 3/19/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 19, 2010 at 2:59 am

Reuters:   China will send an envoy to the US to discuss the yuan. Reuters:   European carriers who lost money on the Apple (AAPL) iPhone won't do the same in their ...
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Media Digest 3/3/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 3, 2010 at 4:00 am

Reuters:   The Senate overcame opposition to allow jobless benefits to be extended. Reuters:   China will hope to keep the value of the yuan steady. Reuters:   JC Penney (JCP) will focus ...
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Media Digest 2/10/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 10, 2010 at 3:50 am

Reuters:   Honda (NYSE:HMC) expanded its recall by 440,000 as more Toyota (NYSE:TM) models were probed. Reuters:   ArcelorMittal sees a slow improvement in steel production in Q1. Reuters:   IMF aid for ...
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Comcast And GE Try To Defend A Questionable Deal

Posted: February 5, 2010 at 5:36 am

GE (GE) and Comcast (CMCSA) have struck a deal for the cable company to take a controlling share in GE's entertainment unit--NBCU. Opponents of the transaction claim that it will ...
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Google (GOOG) Pushes To Make YouTube The Video Entertainment Hub For The World

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 6:01 am

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has had trouble figuring out how it will make money from its huge video sharing website YouTube since it bought the company for $1.65 billion in October 2006.  ...
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Twelve Huge M&A Deals For 2010: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Posted: December 14, 2009 at 1:48 pm

M&A activity picked up in the second half of 2009 as the market moved up and access to capital for big companies improved. Corporate debt offerings soared and banks began ...
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