Once a month, I’ll publish an article on MediaPost that touches on a handful of interesting stories around the Web that affect new media and online video. continue reading...
With the AOL/TechCrunch soap opera finally coming to an end, we thought we would see the forest through the trees and focus on Mergers and Acquisitions, or M&A, in general. continue reading...
In segment 1, we shift our focus away from the debacle at AOL and look at Yahoo!’s own soap opera by expanding on a couple of articles I published on TechCrunch, namely why and how Yahoo! could make a run to Hulu and Yahoo!’s options. We cover a lot, and in there I go over a lot of numbers explaining the financial engineering, so I included the numbers below. Watch the video below (and scroll down to get the financial engineering math) continue reading...
It was a matter of time, really. When The Guardian bought PaidContent.org, it was reasonable to assume that sooner than later, the talismanic founder Rafat Ali would leave. That was Rafat and the Guardian. continue reading...
Hmm… the title of my post is tongue-in-cheek. Very interesting article on Nick Denton in the New Yorker; when he is talking about content farms, he explains: continue reading...
We’re talking about wireless consumption, of course. continue reading...
Since launching WatchMojo, I’ve bought more Apple gear than most fanboys will over 10 lifetimes. I still use a PC but have an iPhone and an iPad (iPad thanks to Business Insider, which I won at their conference this past year). continue reading...
Michael Arrington’s Tech Crunch apparently makes $10M a year according to a new article in Inc. magazine. continue reading...
Not surprisingly, HP is suing to block Mark Hurd from joining Oracle. Here’s the full complaint. This one is tricky: if Hurd was fired, then he can logically do what he pleases, unless of course he was compensated in order not to take on a job at a competitor. It’s not whether you or I think HP and Oracle are competitive, it is what his non-competition agreement says. continue reading...
The only thing that is in even more disarray than the French football squad these days seem to be French newspapers. Frenchman Frederic Filloux does a good job of covering the situation here. It’s a great read full of eye-popping stats with the usual dose of drama you’d come to expect from European boardrooms: continue reading...
