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Liberty Media Chairman John Malone: The Full D7 Session
As many already know, John Malone has been a cable legend since he first ran Tele-Communications Inc. back in the early 1970s. Besides being there at the founding of many channels, the Liberty Media...
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Liberty Media Chairman John Malone: The Full D7 Session
As many already know, John Malone has been a cable legend since he first ran Tele-Communications Inc. back in the early 1970s. Besides being there at the founding of many channels, the Liberty Media...
View ArticleDoes John Malone Want To Own AOL?
Does Liberty Media (LINTA) want to own AOL? CNBC’s David Faber raised the question this morning at the tail end of a long interview with Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei. And Maffei indicated that...
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Starz Joins Comcast's "Web TV You'll Pay to See" Lineup
Liberty Media’s Starz Entertainment has signed on to Comcast’s “On Demand Online” program, which is the first test of the cable industry’s “authentication” and “entitlement” strategy. Or, as I like to...
View ArticleNow Things Get Interesting: CBS Joins Comcast's Web TV Trial
Yet another addition to the growing list of programmers signing on to Comcast’s “On Demand Online”: CBS will join the cable provider’s trial program, which will allow subscribers to get Web access to...
View ArticleLiberty Media Jumps 10 Percent as Q2 Sales, Ebitda Beat
Shares of John Malone’s Liberty Media Interactive (LINTA), owner of “QVC,” are up sharply this morning after the company beat Q2 expectations for revenue and operating profit. Revenue fell, year over...
View ArticleIn Sun Valley, Media Chiefs Fret Over Economy
Media and technology executives and investors are sounding new alarms bells about the economy, worried it could wipe out recent growth. In an interview Thursday morning at the Allen & Co....
View ArticleMalone Is Fired Up by Cable and Ready to Buy
Liberty Media Chairman John Malone is fired up about cable again, believing its high speeds will give it an edge over satellite as consumers devour more entertainment digitally. The compulsive deal...
View ArticleSocial Heavyweights Prime the Pump With $250 Million Fund
During a press event at Facebook headquarters this morning, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers announced a new $250 million fund for start-ups playing in the social space. The venture capital firm’s...
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Liveblogging the Unveiling of the SFund at Facebook (With Guest Stars:...
BoomTown had to park a badillion miles away from Facebook’s suburban HQ in Palo Alto, Calif. and hoofed it there for a press event that unveiled the sFund. What’s that? A $250 million fund for social...
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A Nerd by Any Other Name Would Be as Geek–Bing Gordon Waxes Poetic and More...
BoomTown will admit it: I am a social party pooper. In any case, here is a lovely video I did yesterday while at the launch of the sFund. The sFund is a $250 million fund for social start-ups, whose...
View ArticleBarry Diller and John Malone Complete Their Divorce
Barry Diller and John Malone, who have been tied together for 17 years, are officially split up, for good: Malone’s Liberty Media is abandoning its majority stake in Diller’s IAC holding company and...
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How Lockerz Is Making Shopping a Lot More Fun for the 19 & Under Crowd
Seattle-based Lockerz is trying to build an all-new e-commerce experience targeting teens, by stealing aspects from FarmVille and Facebook. For adults, it makes a lot more sense when described as the...
View ArticleStarz to Delay Some Content On Netflix
Pay-TV channel Starz plans to delay the availability of new TV shows and movies to Netflix Inc., adding to the list of media companies that have signaled plans to keep new content away from the growing...
View ArticleLiberty Media Bids for Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble Inc. said that Liberty Media Corp. has offered to buy the bookseller in a deal valuing it at about $1 billion. Barnes & Noble shares were up 20 percent in after-hours trading...
View ArticleLiberty Says Nook Inspired B&N Bid
Liberty Media Corp. executives laid out their rationale for their surprise bid for Barnes & Noble Inc., touting the potential of the bookseller’s Nook e-reader and the vast network of retail stores...
View ArticleNetflix CEO: We're Not Causing Cord-Cutting
One of Netflix’s earliest strategic advantages was its $30 million deal with Starz, the Liberty Media-owned cable network, to license its content for use on the Web, which it struck in 2008,...
View ArticleSony Films Leave Netflix
Movies distributed by Sony Corp.’s Sony Pictures Entertainment were removed from Netflix Inc.’s on-demand Internet service Friday, a Netflix executive wrote in a blog post, adding that the absence was...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Loss Widens on Higher Expenses
Barnes & Noble Inc.’s fiscal fourth-quarter loss widened on higher expenses, though the bookseller posted higher revenue, thanks to surging online sales. The nation’s largest book-store chain...
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Dancing Queen: After Meeting With Microsoft Last Week, Yahoo Is Next on...
Here’s a handy helper for those following the fate of the Hulu premium online video service, whose noisy efforts to sell itself have gotten a lot of attention of late: “In preliminary talks” =...
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