Brad Greenspan, a former shareholder of the company that owned MySpace has presented details of his bid to buy a large piece of Dow Jones (DJ), setting himself up as an alternative…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, the board of Dow Jones (DJ) has approved a $5 billion offer from News Corp (NWS). Reuters writes that British Imperial Tobacco has agreed to buy rival firm Altadis…
The board of Dow Jones (DJ) has approved a deal to sell the company to News Corp (NWS) for $5 billion. The deal now goes to the Bancroft family, who still may…
Douglas A. McIntyre New numbers from comScore show that Fox Interactive, the only portion of News Corp (NWS) had almost 53 million unique video streamers at its websites in May. Most of these are probably…
CNN Money used the number $10 billion when talking about the valuation of Facebook, the social network.There was a bit of joking in that. Yahoo! (YHOO) apparently considered a $1 billion bid…
comScore is out with it Top Ten Web Properties for May 2007. The leaders was Google (GOOG) with 528 million unique visitors during the month, almost 70% of all global web users.…
Bloomberg has written an analysis of Yahoo!’s (YHOO) business prospects that is grim. The news agency makes the argument that, after losing the search business to Google (GOOG), its is losing the…
Gemstar-TV Guide (GMST) says that is may put itself up for sale. As would be expected, shares jumped 17% after hours to $6.27. That would put it well above its 52-week high…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, a dispute between Airbus and GE (GE) could delay the launch of the Airbus 350. Reuters writes that Boeing (BA) will unveil its 787 after recently receiving a number…
The Business in the UK is reporting that News Corp’s (NWS) deal to buy Dow Jones (DJ) is now complete. We’ll see. One would think the news would have been passed to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Facebook’s May numbers show that the social network site has grown 89% in one year in terms of unique visitors. Page views have more than doubled during that period, according to comScore.…
NBC chief Jeff Zuckerman was quoted in the FT as saying that his company did not bid for Dow Jones (DJ) because "When you have shareholders who you have to create value…
At the end of a recent interview with Time Magazine, Rupert Murdoch suggested that the way to turn The Wall Street Journal into a huge global brand was to hire more top-notch…
Dow Jones (DJ) shares are off a bit today on news that Rupert Murdoch and News Corp (NWS) will not raise his bid for the parent of The Wall Street Journal. It’s…
According to Reuters, Bear Stearns (BCS) will put its CFO into a job overseeing its troubled hedge funds. Reuters writes that the Swedish government will review the Nasdaq’s (NDAQ) purchase of Nordic…
