Gannett (GCI), the country’s largest newspaper company posted its revenue for the May period. Advertising revenue dropped 14.3% to $347 million. This was an acceleration from the year-to-date rate of decrease of…
comScore reports that eleven billion videos were watched in the US in April. Of those 4.2 billion were watched on Google (GOOG) sites, which mean YouTube. No one on Wall St. thinks…
Martha Stewart Living (MSO) CEO Susan Lyne was asked to leave the table today. Two other executives at the company replaced here. The market did not like the news and pushed the…
Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance began to offer real-time stock quotes recently. It got around the huge fees changed by NYSE and Nasdaq by pulling the data from the Bats ECN, an electronics exchange…
The war for newspapers to stay profitable, and, perhaps long-term, to stay viable has become a race between the fall-off in their print advertising and the increase of their online sales. Based…
MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube are among the most visited websites in the world. Unfortunately, no one can figure out how to make money from them. According to comScore, Facebook, the smallest of…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Rueters, Microsoft (MSFT) has proposed a partnership with Yahoo! (YHOO), in place of a buy-out, which may push Carl Icahn to try to get a deal for Yahoo! to set…
Perhaps someone could have figured this out a year ago, Social networks like MySpace, owned by News Corp (NWS) and Facebook are poor targets for marketers. No wonder. A social network is…
Online videos viewed in March moved up to 11.5 billion, a 13% jump from the year before and a tremendous pop of 64% over the same month last year. The question is…
Rupert Murdoch of News Corp (NWS) pulled his $580 million bid for large Long Island paper "Newsday" currently owned by The Tribune Company. Cablevision (CVC), which has a large portion of its…
Douglas A. McIntyre Yahoo! (YHOO) seems to have gotton several pieces of bad news yesterday. The chief of strategy at Microsoft (MSFT), if there can be any such person, said that his company would go…
According to Reuters, the head of strategy at Microsoft (MSFT) says it deal to acquire Yahoo! (YHOO) is over. Reuters writes that Toyota (TM) posted a 28% drop in profit due to…
Cablevision (CVC) is apparently looking at buying Long Island newspaper Newsday with Jared Kushner, a rich youngster who owns the tiny weekly The New York Observer. As far any anyone knows, the…
According to Reuters, earnings from Texas Instruments (TXN) disappointed investors and the company issued a weak forecast. Reuters report that RBS (RBS) will raise $24 billion to help the bank which is…
The executive editor of The Wall Street Journal has resigned. Marcus Brauchli had been in his post about one year. The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp (NWS) Douglas A.…
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