Bertelsmann Interested in Reed Business (1)
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Reuters reports that Bertelsmann's magazine unit Gruner & Jahr maybe in the mix to acquire the RBI unit from Reed Elsevier. Reuters learned of the tip via a German newspaper. In the report, Reuters also notes that indications of interest for the RBI business unit have been received and offers range between £1.0bill and £1.25bill. If correct, this range appears to match Reeds initial expectations for the deal. Reuters expects final bids to be submitted ...
Hey kids! Help Time Inc. and your school or group at the same time! (1)
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Judging from the headlines about the media business, you'd think the sun was setting on the whole concept of print products. But a deal by Time Inc. reminds us that magazines are still around, and that a magazine giant is still interested in an old-fashioned way of selling them.On Thursday...
Why I love Amazon, they just get it (1)
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Couple things popped up in Reader last week whilst I was whiling my days in sunny Mexico. Well, ok, not that sunny, mostly rainy, really, but still, while I was away. Lotta Kindles sold First up was the TechCrunch report that they had a source close to the company suggesting they’d sold 240,000 Kindles so far. Which is pretty close to Wall Street estimates though Amazon itself remains mum on the topic. But if that ...
Google Acquires Omnisio, YouTube to Get New Features (1)
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Google has wasted no time in acquiring Omnisio an online video tools company that only launched publicly in March of this year. TechCrunch explains what might soon come to YouTube via this acquisition: The service lets users annotate videos, mash various clips up, and synchronize Slideshare presentations to videos (great for conference presentations). Omnisio users can extract sections of clips they find on the web (currently only those on YouTube, Google Video, or Blip.tv). They ...
Spiffy! (1)
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Yesterday's missive -- Rinse. Lather. Repeat -- was, apparently, widely circulated. That's according to a WSJ article Thain's Housecleaning Spiffs Up Merrill (page C1). (Glad to know that received wider attention). Here's the excerpt:"Rinse, lather and repeat," began an email by Barry Ritholtz, director of equity research at Fusion IQ, that circulated widely Tuesday and summed up the predicament facing Mr. Thain. "Release earnings. Issue guidance. A few weeks later, lower earnings. A few weeks ...
RIAs for the Enterprise - iLog + IBM = More Adobe? from PeopleOverProcess.com (2)
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IBM purchased iLog this morning. Now, I’ll admit that I don’t know iLog extreamly well. I actually heard about them for the first time last week at the Adobe Analyst Summit (which was a nice introduction to LiveCycle ES). Dark Data in the Enterprise On the other hand, I am nuts for the RIA. Even more so, I like seeing how RIAs get themselves into the enterprise world. I’m fond of pointing out that most ...
Gannett invests in Mogulus (3)
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At NAB earlier this year, we reported that Gannett had inked a white-label deal with Mogulus to provide live streaming for a few newspaper sites. Now there’s news Gannett has invested “around $10 million” in the company to power live streaming for the rest of its newspaper and TV sites. So what’s so unique about Mogulus? It’s really a live television studio in a single application: you can broadcast live, scheduled live, or on-demand with ...
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it was only a matter if time. news orgs need live mobile tech to stay relevant.
Rockport Paper House Is Most Ambitious Papercraft Ever [Retromodo] (20)
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Back in 1922, a mechanical engineer began building his summer home in Rockport, Massachusetts out of paper. Originally used just as insulation, Elis Stenman soon began to make furniture and decorations out of paper as well. What resulted was Rockport's Paper House, which is remarkably still standing after 80 years. Stenman's grandniece is now in charge of the house, which was turned into a museum in the 1930s. The wall material, roughly an inch thick, ...
Genentech Stands Up for Itself (1)
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Genentech made its first public move yesterday in the chess match that started a few days ago, when Roche announced plans to buy the 44% of Genentech it didn’t already own. It sounds like Genentech may put up a fight. In a statement, Genentech said it had formed a special committee of the three independent members of its board to consider the offer, and that the committee doesn’t have to agree to a deal. The ...
Arby's Operator Triarc Gobbles Up Wendy's (1)
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WaMu in Talks About $5 Billion Infusion (1)
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WaMu Surges on Report of $5 Billion Infusion (1)
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Distribution vs. Monetization from the Front Lines of the Video Industry (2)
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Question: “As far as your business goes, which is proving the bigger challenge monetising existing content or increasing views?” Answer: One year after launching our syndication network, we’ve become one of the largest syndicators of video content online (for more on this, read a press release we issued or check out one of many sources backing this up). The focus now is on monetizing it, either via advertising or licensing deals… frankly, due to the ...
Oracle-BEA: A cloudy future for Project Genesis (1)
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I just wrapped up a lengthy report on Oracle’s product integration plans for BEA over the next year. You have to subscribe to read it of course, but suffice it to say, BEA’s WebLogic and AquaLogic products will play key roles in Oracle Fusion Middleware’s integration, BPM and SOA infrastructure offerings, for the most part supplanting Oracle’s existing technology in those areas. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. BEA had the more established and mature ...
Venture Capital is Broken, Let’s Fix It! (2)
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Those who know me would probably not describe me as an overly wordy person, but when I read Jevon’s post and had so much to say that it wouldn’t all fit in the comments section, so I decided to write it up here. “The title is “Why Startups Will Save Canadian Venture Capital”, and it doesn’t let anyone off the hook. It isn’t a criticism, but instead it is an analysis and a call to ...
Google’s Russian Monopoly Begins with Acquisition of Begun (1)
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According to Mashable, Google just acquired Russian contextual ad company Begun for $140 million and grabbed a monopoly in Russia’s contextual advertising market in the process. Begun is currently owned by two companies, leading to an interesting double-deal: [Rambler Media Ltd] currently holds 50.1% of Begun. The transaction will consist of Rambler buying the remaining 49.9% stake in Begun from Bannatyne Limited, affiliated with the Finam group of companies, immediately after which Rambler will sell ...
Grupos de media americanos compram blogues (2)
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Enquanto em Portugal os media continuam a ver na blogosfera o papão e um antro de criminalidade e perdição (nas palavras do comentador Moita Flores), os grupos de media americanos começaram a comprar blogues. Esta semana cresceram os rumores sobre negociações entre a Time Warner AOL e o TechCrunch, com 20 a 30 milhões de dólares em cima da mesa. O Techcrunch foi fundado há apenas 3 anos por Michael Arrington, que depressa se tornou ...
If Paid Content is a $30M Firm, is SAI a $5M One? (4)
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If Paid Content is worth $30M, is Silicon Alley Investor worth $5M pre-money (or $6M post-money)? Sure, why not. That’s how the M&A and financing businesses operate: 1- one part about demand and supply for a business, 2- one part about comparables, 3- one part about fundamentals, 4 - one part about leverage, which is a combination of the three points above. Why it’s a point in itself is because some people might have 1, ...
Twitter Needs to Keep Shopping (3)
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A few months ago, I wrote a post suggesting that Twitter aggressively expand its features - an idea that didn’t resonate because many believe simplicity was the beauty of Twitter. With that in mind, Twitter’s acquisition of Summize (editor’s note: has the acquisition of a tiny search engine ever got more coverage?) suggests that I was correct. In fact, I’ll argue that Twitter should keep on making acquisition if wants to build a stickier, more ...
「バドワイザー」身売り－世界を席巻するグローバルビール企業 (1)
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