I was asked, "What would you do if you were running CNN today?" "I'd fire Larry King and hire Bill Clinton," I answered.
AP | JEREMY HERRON | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Time Warner Inc.'s second-quarter earnings fell 26 percent on declining subscriber fees at its AOL online unit and lower ad revenue a...
Nina Spezzaferro | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business
Successfully targeted and privacy-centric mobile advertising, while inevitable, could very well be another 18 to 24 months away.
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business
Here's the official end of the Yahoo-Icahn proxy war: Yahoo will give the corporate raider 3 seats on its board (one for himself, plus two more), and ...
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business
Useful thought by Team Yahoo: Why trust the WSJ, the NYT CNBC or anybody else when you can just go directly to shareholders? Hence this memo released ...
Silicon Alley Insider | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business
Following our report that a Time Warner team is talking to Microsoft about an AOL deal, a source tells Reuters that TWX is talking to Jerry Yang and c...
Reuters | Eric Auchard and Kenneth Li | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc have been holding separate talks with other potential media partners after their negot...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business
At a meeting with about a dozen senior members of AOL's staff yesterday, Jeff Bewkes left at least one member of management with the impression that t...
Reuters | Matt Daily | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business
Microsoft Corp's CEO said the company will not seek to make a spate of other Internet acquisitions in the wake of its failed bid for Yahoo Inc, the Fi...
New York Times | Tim Arango | Posted 06.09.2008 | Business
On May 14, 2001, Joseph A. Ripp, the newly appointed chief financial officer of America Online, faxed a letter to the Las Vegas offices of the account...
AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.19.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Monday said eight former Time Warner Inc. executives fraudulently inflated the company's online advertising r...
Reuters | Franklin Paul | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business
"It's a success! Now what?" Yahoo may be ready to turn over its Web search advertising to Google following a successful test using Google's service t...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business
Kara Swisher called up a half-dozen of her senior Yahoo (YHOO) sources and asked them what they thought of Yahoo's new merge-with-AOL-to-escape-Micros...
PaidContent | Joseph Weisenthal | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business
With the Microsoft-Yahoo-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) dance so fluid, analyst reports are going stale pretty fast. Whereas just a couple days ago, most analyst...
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business
Another Web coalition featuring Google, AOL, Yahoo -- and many other Internet players -- has gathered to fight proposed New York state legislation tha...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc.'s last-ditch efforts to avoid a takeover by Microsoft Corp. appear to be setting the stage for a dramatic finale feat...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
The New York Times is reporting that News Corporation and Microsoft are in talks to make a joint bid for Yahoo: Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is ...
New York Post | Brian Garrity | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
Don't expect AOL to be LOL over Facebook's new push into instant messaging. Time Warner's struggling online unit could be the big loser if the surgin...
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
I typed in Hillaryclinton.com on AOL Search -- powered by Google -- and up pops Obama's web site ( See below) inviting me to; "Help elect Barack Ob...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.20.2008 | Business
Many senior AOL (TWX) managers did not want to buy social-networking site Bebo, sources tell us. Among the concerns, they did not (and do not) believe...
Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 03.18.2008 | Media
Does change make the man? Or does the man make the change? That was one of the things I contemplated when interviewing former Time Warner CEO Dick Pa...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.13.2008 | Business
Key points on AOL-Bebo (TWX): *Price probably fine. Social networks very hard to monetize, but given per-member price deflation since Murdoch bought ...
AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 03.13.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — AOL stepped up its bid to boost traffic and advertising opportunities worldwide as the struggling Internet company agreed Thursday to...
New York Times | SAUL HANSELL, LOUISE STORY | Posted 03.12.2008 | Business
AOL, the company that introduced millions of people to the Internet, has tried to reinvent itself many times. The latest effort, like those before it,...
Michael Shaw | Posted 02.22.2008 | Media
I had my suspicions about the suicide bombers, but it didn't stop a wide swath of media from jumping on the story, producing headlines and visuals like the one above.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
this just in: Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.24.2008 | Media