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• VeriSign Exits Mobile; Sells Remaining Stake In JV To News Corp For $200 Million

  VeriSign's (NSDQ: VRSN) effort to capitalize on mobile through its acquisition of Jamba is officially over. VeriSign tried to keep skin in the game through a JV with News Corp (NYSE: NWS). selling 51 percent in May 2007 for $187.5 million and a merger with Fox Mobile Entertainment....

  Tue Oct 7, 2008 @ 2:18 PM PDT

  Tags: Mobile, VeriSign Inc., Jamba, Security, Staci D. Kramer, Companies, News Corp., VC+M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions

• VeriSign Exits Mobile; Sells Remaining Stake In JV To News Corp For $200 Million

  VeriSign's (NSDQ: VRSN) effort to capitalize on mobile through its acquisition of Jamba is officially over. VeriSign tried to keep skin in the game through a JV with News Corp (NYSE: NWS). selling 51 percent in May 2007 for $187.5 million and a merger with Fox Mobile Entertainment....

  Tue Oct 7, 2008 @ 1:10 PM PDT

  Tags: Mobile, VeriSign Inc., Jamba, Security, Staci D. Kramer, Companies, News Corp., VeriSign, Money, VC M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions

• News Corp pays USD200m for VeriSign's Jamba stake

  News Corp is fully acquiring Jamba, paying USD200m for VeriSign's remaining 49% stake in the mobile entertainment firm. News Corp and VeriSign previously ran Jamba as a joint venture after News Corp bought 51% of the VeriSign subsidiary in 2007. ...

  Tue Oct 7, 2008 @ 11:49 AM PDT

  Tags: VeriSign Inc., Security, Andrew McDonald, Jamba Inc., News Corp.

• Netvibes partners with Russian's Rambler Media

  Widget startup Netvibes has signed a multi-year partnership deal with Russian web portal Rambler.ru which will use Netvibes' technology to allow users to customise their homepage. Through the deal, Rambler will have the exclusive Russian rights to install, host and...

  Tue Oct 7, 2008 @ 11:49 AM PDT

  Tags: Media, Netvibes, Corporate Communications, Business Structures, Portals, Marketing, Finance, Internet, Andrew McDonald, ITV, Blinkx, CBS Corp., News Corp.

• RTL seeks clearance to bid for ITV - Rumour

  Luxembourg-based media conglomerate RTL is set to make an offer for UK-based ITV after first obtaining permission from Bertelsmann its parent company, according to several media outlets. The company is flush with cash having sold its 50% stake in its Sony BMG joint venture to Sony for more than...

  Tue Oct 7, 2008 @ 11:49 AM PDT

  Tags: RTL, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew McDonald, Bertelsmann AG, Sony BMG, ITV, BSkyB, British Sky Broadcasting Group

• Getty launches new music licensing service

  Getty Images has launched an online music service that lets film-makers, ad firms and other producers license tracks from major and independent labels, reports Billboard. The service, called Premium Playlist, launches this week with 1,000 tracks from label partners which...

  Tue Oct 7, 2008 @ 11:48 AM PDT

  Tags: Getty Images, Music, Andrew McDonald, Kobalt Music Group, Warner/Chappell Music, Cherry Lane Music Group, KOCH Records

• Yahoo! and AOL to merge by month's end - Rumour

  Yahoo! and AOL are discussing a merger and could finalise a deal as soon as the end of the month, reports TechCrunch quoting unnamed sources. The deal will reportedly see Yahoo! acquire AOL's content, services and advertising businesses - but...

  Tue Oct 7, 2008 @ 11:48 AM PDT

  Tags: Merger, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Investment, Finance, Online Communications, Internet, Francesco Canepa, AOL, Microsoft Corp., Time Warner Inc.

• UK Poised to Unveil Bank Rescue Plan: Report

  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government is poised to announce a "comprehensive" rescue package for the banking system, the BBC reported on Tuesday, including the possibility of injecting capital into banks."It will be big, it is the government's attempt to stabilize the banking system," BBC economics correspondent Robert Peston reported. "The...

  Tue Oct 7, 2008 @ 11:30 AM PDT

  Tags: Bank, British Broadcasting Corp., Plan, Government, Banking, Financial Services, Us

• Report Questions Impartiality of SEC: NY Times

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal inquiry has concluded that the Securities and Exchange Commission should consider disciplining its director of enforcement and two supervisors for their role in handling an insider trading investigation, The New York Times said, citing an obtained report.The insider trading investigation led to the firing of...

  Tue Oct 7, 2008 @ 9:47 AM PDT

  Tags: SEC, New York Times Co., Workforce Management, Human Resources, Aguirre, Morgan Stanley, Us

• Newspaper Roundup: LAT; NYT; East Valley Tribune

  -- LAT slashes 75 editorial jobs: Editors at the Tribune Company paper met over the weekend to draw up lists of those whose jobs would be cut. At least 75 jobs will be lost, either through voluntary exits or layoffs. Back in Feb, LAT was forced to eliminate 100-150...

  Tue Oct 7, 2008 @ 4:31 AM PDT

  Tags: Job, Layoff, New York Stock Exchange, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, David Kaplan, Companies, NYT, Tribune, Media, Newspapers, New York Times Co.

• In A Switch, Hulu Will Stream Remaining Presidential Debates Live; Premiere A Film

  *News Corp*-*NBCU* JV Hulu is going live for the first time since its launch last year. The site will stream the remaining presidential debates, which air respectively on NBC Tuesday night and on Fox News Oct. 15. (Sense a pattern here?) The debates also will be available in Hulu's...

  Tue Oct 7, 2008 @ 3:01 AM PDT

  Tags: Debate, *News Corp*-*NBCU* JV Hulu, Cloud Computing, Staci D. Kramer, Broadband, Companies, NBC Universal, News Corp.

• TV Guide Network Being Sold Separately From Mag; Book Finally Out

  Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) has finally put the book out for the formal sale of TV Guide Network, according to Variety. The channel includes its flagship TV scrolling IPG, distributed in about 80 million homes in U.S., and the much-smaller TVG Horse Race Network, and the story says could fetch...

  Mon Oct 6, 2008 @ 7:31 PM PDT

  Tags: Network, TV Guide, New York Stock Exchange, TVs, Venture Capital, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Financing Startups, Rafat Ali, Media, TV, VC+M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Macrovision Corp., Time Warner Inc.

• Industry Moves: Newsweek; LIN TV; MySpace; Spotzer

  -- Newsweek: The *Washington Post Co*. mag has named Pamela Raley, a former online ad sales exec at Hearst, *Disney* and Revolution Health, to the new post of chief revenue officer. Raley will be responsible for overseeing all ad revenue and the magazine's ad sales teams, but her main...

  Mon Oct 6, 2008 @ 7:18 PM PDT

  Tags: Team, Newsweek, Advertisement, Industry, TV, Exec, MySpace, Mag, Robert Richter, Team Management, Management, Amanda Natividad, Advertising, Marketing, Broadband, Companies, WaPo, WSJ-DJ, Industry Moves, Media, Magazines, Social Media, News Corp.

• Media Roundup: Tina Brown Unleashes Daily Beast, DreamWorks and Paramount Split, and More

  Tina Brown and Barry Diller launch The Daily Beast -- The latest release from two media moguls isn't a content provider but a news aggregator. [Source: PaidContent] DreamWorks and Paramount split but share custody -- The two studios will work jointly on as many as 40 projects...

  Mon Oct 6, 2008 @ 5:20 PM PDT

  Tags: Media, DreamWorks SKG, E-books, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing, Karen Steen

• NYT: So Far, The Vaccine Against Bancroft-itis Is Working With The Sulzberger Fifth Gen

  New York magazine's anticipated profile of Arthur Sulzberger and the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is out sans bombshells. The bottom line from the lengthy piece by Joe Hagen: no one in the family, including Arthur, is thrilled with the way Arthur is running the company, "no one...

  Mon Oct 6, 2008 @ 2:09 PM PDT

  Tags: Vaccine, Family, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance, Staci D. Kramer, New York Times Co.

• Magazines' Digital Revenues Offset Last Year's Print Declines For Some

  As magazine ad pages continued to slip this year and last, digital's growth appeared to help offset the print losses at several publishers, particularly Time Inc. and IDG, AdAge reports. The 48 mags that shared information for AdAge's annual Magazine 300 survey said that revenues from digital ranged from...

  Mon Oct 6, 2008 @ 4:16 AM PDT

  Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Time Inc., Magazine, Operational Accounting, Finance, David Kaplan, Advertising, Companies, Time Warner, Information, Research, Media, Magazines, Time Warner Inc.

• Google and Yahoo Delay Search Ad Partnership

  By Diane BartzWASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - Google GOOG and Yahoo YHOO have decided to delay implementing a controversial search advertising partnership, Yahoo said on Friday."The companies have agreed to a brief delay in implementing this agreement to continue our ongoing discussions with the (U.S.) Department of Justice," Yahoo said in...

  Fri Oct 3, 2008 @ 5:30 PM PDT

  Tags: Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Microsoft Corp., Oukbs, The Walt Disney Co.

• Interview: Ben Wolin, CEO, Waterfront Media: 'A Two-Horse Race'

  Late last night, Waterfront Media and Revolution Health put the finishing touches on a merger that, when the dust settles, will produce a #2 health network with more than 20 million uniques. While a lot of the focus is on Steve Case's dramatic switch from building his own massive...

  Fri Oct 3, 2008 @ 5:08 PM PDT

  Tags: Media, WebMD, Mergers & Acquisitions, Health Content, VC+M&A

• Magazine Publishers Settle With Napster-For-Magazines Mygazines

  Back in May, a site called Mygazines was launched, offering a peer-to-peer model for readers to share their magazine subs with each other. The basic idea: subscribers could upload digitized versions of their magazines for others to peruse. No shock: The magazine publishers were in no mood to see...

  Fri Oct 3, 2008 @ 4:11 PM PDT

  Tags: Companies, Napster, Legal, Media, Magazines, McGraw-Hill Companies

• Nielsen Explores Companywide Editorial Reorg; Layoffs Coming

  B2B publisher Nielsen Business Media is putting together a new content strategy for its 40 magazine properties, Folio reports. Nielsen, which publishes such titles as Adweek, Mediaweek, The Hollywood Reporter, Editor & Publisher and Billboard, told Folio that the strategy could involve the creation of a "content center across...

  Fri Oct 3, 2008 @ 4:09 PM PDT

  Tags: Layoff, Adweek, Editorial, Nielsen, Workforce Management, B2B, Strategy, Human Resources, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Management, David Kaplan, Media, Magazines

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