Both Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (NYSE: LGF) and Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA) are watching their shares make a handy gain early on Thursday after the announcement of an acquisition. The companies announced an agreement where…
After the markets closed on Monday, Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) and ReachLocal, Inc. (NASDAQ: RLOC) announced the execution of a definitive merger agreement under which Gannett would acquire all outstanding shares of ReachLocal.…
Social media has taken the world by storm, building virtual communities for anyone who has internet access and allowing people to connect and share across the globe. A lot of these sites have changed…
Google sites were the most visited in May, based on desktop and mobile results together, according to research firm comScore.
A new Merrill Lynch research report makes the case that U.S. media and entertainment companies are making solid inroads with the Chinese consumer after years of effort.
The New York Times believes it has a new way to increase subscription revenue. It needs one. The top line keeps shrinking, as it has for years.
To say that the pay-TV providers hated the FCC's proposal to uncouple the cable and satellite industry's proprietary hold on the set-top box is probably not putting the reaction too strongly.
Viacom warned that third-quarter results will be impacted by the theatrical underperformance of the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film and controversy with founder Sumner Redstone.
One rule of thumb about slow-growing companies in a fast-growing sector is that it does not take a lot of employees to stop growing. At least job cuts improve margins, if only temporarily.
Big tech companies looked at their M&A strategies as the LinkedIn deal hit the news. Did any of them even seriously think about Twitter as a target? There only needs to be one.
Presumably, the small town winners are bad for television and proof that large market teams cannot buy their way to championships the way that the New York Yankees did two generations ago.
The May 31 short interest data have been compared with the previous report. Short interest decreased in most of these selected social media stocks.
The star of mega-hit Broadway show Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, will leave the show on July 9. He will focus on other projects, including a starring role opposite Emily Blunt in Disney’s upcoming Mary Poppins…
As the Warriors square off against the Cavaliers, average ticket prices have soared to the highest levels in recent memory.
The Washington Post presumably has the money and talent to have a shot at the successful transition to the world in which digital revenue actually rises enough to fill the hole left by the…
