Former CEO of CBS Interactive Quincy Smith has joined with CBS Interactive EVP Michael Marquez and music industry veteran dealmaker Fred Davis to launch CODE Advisors, a new Silicon Valley and New York based investment bank. Smith and Marquez led the acquisition of CNET while they ran CBS’ corporate development team (something I called, by the way, over a month before it happened).

Here is the interview they did with Tech Crunch’s Michael Arrington: continue reading...

Right off the bat, let me say that all three media companies are fantastic companies. 

They’re not going anywhere (as in they won’t disappear), and if their TV executives can get over the reasonable envy and angst fearing that what happened to print media companies can happen to them, they will definitely be going places (as in growing and thriving)… continue reading...