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How not to screw it up: Three challenges for Yahoo

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:39 -0400

Yahoo has promised not to screw up Tumblr by taking it over. Nick Shchetko offers three lessons from other big tech acquisitions to help Yahoo keep its promise.

How Yahoo Can Make Money From Tumblr

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:03:00 -0400

It's just one of many websites that has to rethink its business plan, or lack of one.

Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-ray Sales And Rentals For Week Ending May 12, 2013

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:54:00 -0400

Is DirecTV Testing Antennas To Circumvent Re-Transmission Fees?

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:50:43 -0400

News Corp Earnings Review: 12 Days after Announcement Shares Up 4.3% (NWS)

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:59:00 -0400

Rentrak Announces Top Ten Movies-On-Demand Titles Week Ending May 12, 2013

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:00 -0400

Fox News Channel Signs Former U.S. Representative Allen West to Contributor Role

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:37:00 -0400

Time Warner Cable Looking to Buy Hulu Before Yahoo

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:27:45 -0400

Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) is interested in acquiring the Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) of television -- AKA Hulu.

According to Bloomberg, discussions are "at an early stage and a transaction isn't certain." Another, unidentified pay-TV company is also interested in acquiring Hulu.

Interestingly, only a portion

How A Company’s Bean Counters Earn Their Money

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:55 -0400

Antoinette Cook Bush Named Executive Vice President and Global Head of Government Affairs for New News Corporation

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:45:00 -0400

Klarman Baupost Gets Into Citi (C) Warrants, DIRECTV (DTV) and Elan (ELN); Cuts News Corp (NWSA)

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:41:10 -0400

Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/news.php?st=p&id=8337681 for the full story.

Disney’s ABC Targets Aereo With Free Live Streaming

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:30:22 -0400

This Just In: Everybody's Spying on Everybody Else

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:00:00 -0400

The Bloomberg data privacy scandal is small compared to the issues consumer sites, like Facebook, are facing.

Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-ray Sales And Rentals For Week Ending May 5, 2013

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:58:00 -0400

News Corp Has Returned 33.8% Since SmarTrend Recommendation (NWS)

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:46:00 -0400

Tesla, Green Mountain are Thursday stocks to watch

Thu, 09 May 2013 05:30:37 -0400

Tesla, Green Mountain, Groupon, News Corp. are likely to remain active on Thursday after reporting quarterly results late Wednesday.

News Corporation Reports Third Quarter Earnings Per Share of $1.22 on Net Income Attributable to Stockholders of $2.85 Billion

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:03:00 -0400

News Corp., Tesla in focus after hours

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:33:09 -0400

Shares of News Corp. and Tesla Motors Inc. will be in focus after the bell Wednesday as the companies report quarterly results.

Yahoo Wants Hulu to Take Down the Netflix and YouTube Empires

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:50:58 -0400

If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em. If you can't buy 'em, acquire one of their competitors and hope for the best.

That has been the strategy of Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), which has been on the lookout for a snazzy YouTube clone ever since Google (NASDAQ:

News America Marketing Partners With Children's Miracle Network Hospitals To Support Upcoming 'EPIC' Campaign

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:46:00 -0400

Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-ray Sales And Rentals For Week Ending April 28, 2013

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400

Disney Preview: ESPN, Parks And Resorts Will Carry Earnings

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:00:43 -0400

NASDAQ Gainers Watch List: Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) and News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWS) Added to Growing Stock Report's NASDAQ Gainers Watch List.

Fri, 03 May 2013 12:54:19 -0400

New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/03/2013 -- Growing Stock Report expands its NASDAQ Gainers Weekly Watch List adding Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) and News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWS).

News Corp Shares Up 24.3% Since SmarTrend's Buy Recommendation (NWS)

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:21:00 -0400

Yahoo No Longer Buying YouTube's Little Brother

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:43:39 -0400

While shopping for new content, Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) had hoped to take home a shiny-new streaming video site this year.

There were rumors that the Internet giant would acquire Hulu from its current owners, Disney (NYSE: DIS), Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and News Corp. (NYSE:

Raise a glass to these 3 bulletproof booze players

Wed, 01 May 2013 06:01:49 -0400

Consumer staples have long been a defensive sector of the market, but that doesn’t mean that the stocks can’t play good offense, as evidenced by two liquor companies and the world’s largest brewer.

Rentrak Announces Top Ten Movies-On-Demand Titles Week Ending April 21, 2013

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:10:00 -0400

Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-ray Sales And Rentals For Week Ending April 21, 2013

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:59:00 -0400

Time Warner’s Earnings Will Depend On Its Cable Networks For Growth

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:10:30 -0400

Cable Networks Will Drive CBS’ Earnings

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:20:44 -0400

A Look At Disney’s Shanghai Resort And Its Potential Value

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:10:54 -0400

Market Warms To NYT’s New Strategy To Boost Digital Subscriptions

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:50:41 -0400

NYT Earnings: Online Subscription And Ads Business In Focus

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:20:25 -0400

Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-ray Sales And Rentals For Week Ending April 14, 2013

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:51:00 -0400

Rentrak Announces Top Ten Movies-On-Demand Titles Week Ending April 14, 2013

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:00:00 -0400

News Corporation Statement on Agreement to Settle Delaware Litigation

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:26:00 -0400

News Corporation and Plaintiff Stockholders Reach Agreement to Settle Delaware Litigation

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:21:00 -0400

Pension Funds and Shareholders’ Counsel Announce Settlement of News Corporation Derivative Litigation: An Announcement by Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann and Grant & Eisenhofer

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:21:00 -0400

News Corp Shares Up 21.6% Since SmarTrend's Buy Recommendation (NWS)

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:09:00 -0400

News Corporation Announces 21st Century Fox as New Name for Independent Media and Entertainment Company

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:23:00 -0400

Rentrak Announces Top Ten Movies-On-Demand Titles Week Ending April 7, 2013

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:24:00 -0400

News Corporation Files Application to Cease to Be a Reporting Issuer in Canada

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:00:00 -0400

Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-ray Sales And Rentals For Week Ending April 7, 2013

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:16:00 -0400

What’s At Risk In News Corp’s Feud With Aereo?

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:40:07 -0400

The Fastest Growing Industries in America are eCommerce and Environmental Consulting

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:35:30 -0400

The folks at Staff.com have put together an infographic highlighting start up survival rates, the types of businesses most likely to fail and the best industries for starting a business in the next five years. While the inclusion of eCommerce, online publishing and Internet games under the latter is hardly a

Don Yacktman: Why This Brilliant Investor Loves News Corp And Microsoft But Avoids Apple

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:17:20 -0400

Don Yacktman is President and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Yacktman Asset Management, a firm he founded in 1992. I recently sat down with Don to talk about his longer-term investing successes and why he likes Microsoft but is skeptical about Apple. Video and a transcript of our conversation follows.

Did Comcast Overpay for NBC?

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:46:35 -0400

NBC, one of the nation's least popular TV networks, is in serious trouble.

In February, the Los Angeles Times' Scott Collins detailed NBC's painful decline.

"The Broadway drama 'Smash'…bombed on its return, with low ratings that shocked even TV veterans," Collins wrote. "The medical thriller 'Do No Harm' posted the

AOL’s Weaker Content Weighs On Display Ads Business And Valuation

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:33:24 -0400

News Corp Up 22.9% Since SmarTrend Uptrend Call (NWS)

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:44:00 -0400

New Stock Coverage: Don't Look at Luxottica Through Rose-Tinted Glasses

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:17:00 -0400

Wall Street ratings agencies set the tone for today's stock market.