Would the Yahoo (YHOO) board be willing to take the company private? read »
Dancing with the Stars' Kirstie Alley is one celebrity who clearly gets the promotional power of Twitter. read »
There is a sizable number of local businesses that just hate Yelp and other sites of its ilk. Their argument is that anyone - from competitor to crazy consumer - can say just about anything, untrue or wildly exaggerated, about their services with little repercussion. Meanwhile the company is left reeling from the negative review. read »
Political, business and cultural leaders come in many sizes, shapes and styles, displaying varying degrees of skill. Some rise at 4 a.m.; some work from noon to 2 a.m. Some are teetotalers; some like to drink a fifth a day. read »
Credit Philippe Dauman, CEO, and COO Tom Dooley, --- for revitalizing Viacom's share of the television marketplace --re-energizing cable networks MTV, Nickleodeon, BET and the Paramount Studio. Just since the Dauman-Dooley management team returned to Viacom in September, 2006, Viacom shares have risen 40% from $34.14 a share to $47.52 a share. That's some 13 times the 3% gain for the S&P 500 index during the same period. read »
The bloggers who are suing the Huffington Post for $105 million are vastly overestimating how much revenue their content generates in terms of ad sales. In one sense, however, they may be more right than they know. There's a whole other way Huffpo's blogs bring value: by influencing how much traffic Google sends to the other parts of the site. read »
Phoenix New Media, a spinoff of Chinese-language media company Phoenix Satellite TV, has filed for a New York Stock Exchange IPO that reportedly would raise up to $200 million. read »