AOL’s plan to capture a large part of the online ad market is to organize a number of brands, some of which don’t have the AOL name, into a new umbrella that the company calls MediaGlow.The...
According to TechCurnch Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) AOL has bought blog aggregation company Sphere for $25 million. The report says that Sphere "adapted to the changing market and focused on...
comScore data for June showed Yahoo! (YHOO) leading all properties in the US with 133 million unique visitors. Google (GOOG) and Time Warner (TWX) sites were virtually tied at just over 123 million....
Warner, the studio wing of Time Warner (TWX) will throw its weight behind the Sony (SNE) Blu-ray high definition format. The new is a blow to the rival Toshiba HD-DVD initiative. Speaking with the...
From Silicon Alley Insider Oppenheimer analyst Sandeep Aggarwal has weighed in on the mortgage-impact-on-online-advertising debate with a careful, lengthy analysis.  Despite cutting estimates on...
Buying The Weather Channel and Weather.com got a bit rich for Time Warner (TWX). The company pulled out of the negotiations, leaving GE’s (GE) NBCU operation and its partners as potential...
The advertising recession caught up with Time Warner (TWX) in the first quarter. Revenues declined 7% from 2008 to $6.9 billion, due mainly to decreases at the AOL, Publishing and Filmed...
IncrediMail Ltd. (NASDAQ:MAIL) saw its shares just crushed today.  The company made the announcement that it received a notification from Google January 9th that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) disengaged...
Late word is that The Weather Channel will be sold to either GE’s (GE) NBCU unit, in partnership with Blackstone (BX), or to Time Warner (TWX). According to Reuters, "The winning bid is...
Microsoft thinks it has come up with a way to out-Google Google. Target display ads by consumer behavior. The big software company is going to track the interests of its 263 million Hotmail users and...
This past weekend turned out better than expected for Hollywood’s movie makers, even though a heavily populated part of the country was struggling with power outages. A boy and his stuffed bear in...
Whenever analysts say "content is king," people often visualize Mel Brooks in "History of the World Part 1" shouting "it’s good to be the king." A more accurate picture is Shakespeare’s tragic...
Newspaper companies are in deep trouble again, and it is not because of the economy exclusively. Ad dollars have moved to online media fast enough so the slide in newspaper revenues is...
The ViOP bandwagon is getting fairly full. After early service like Ebay’s Skype and Vonage signed on millions of customers, the cable companies (especially Comcast and Time Warner) found the...