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AOL and Yahoo!: Fingers in Google’s Dike
AOL and Yahoo! both revolutionized the Internet. And both have completely lost their way. Back in the 1990s, AOL introduced millions of people to email and online content. Yahoo! taught people how to find things online. Now both seem reduced … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Internet, Television, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged advertising, Alibaba, AOL, digital media, Google, Huffington Post, Marketing, Media, Microsoft, publishing, Search, SEO, TechCrunch, Time Warner, Yahoo
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20/20 Hindsight on Myspace
Hindsight is always 20/20. Still, looking back on Rupert Murdoch’s $580 million purchase of Myspace in 2005, it’s possible to see a series of worrisome red flags. I present them forthwith so that you can pick out the next flops yourself — and if you’re a media mogul, maybe save you a billion or two.
Posted in Entertainment, Media
Tagged animationofgoodbye, AOL, bye-animation, byeanimation, Facebook, Fox, funny-goodbye-animation, goodbye-animasi, goodbye-animation, goodbyeanimation, Justin Timberlake, justintimberlake2005, M&A, MySpace, News Corp., nextechelectroniclogo, pictureanimation-goodbye, social media, Time Warner, Yahoo
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How Not to Run a TV Network
If TV network executives spent as much time and money embracing new technologies as they do on lawyers to protect their turf, maybe they wouldn’t need Time Warner and Netflix to show them how to do their jobs. Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, iHollywood Forum, Internet, Media, Video
Tagged byelogo, cable television, david fincher, goodbyepictures, House of Cards, iPad, iphone-5, iphone-5-pictures, iphone5, Kevin Spacey, movies, Netflix, nextechforum-com, pics-of-iphone-5, run-a-tv-network, Scripps, streaming, Time Warner, TV, www-nexttechforum-com
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AOL/Yahoo? Not Likely
While it’s easy to see what AOL gets out of a potential merger with Yahoo!, it’s harder to see what Yahoo! gets. Digital Cities/AOL’s own former managing editor, after all, recently called the challenge of reviving AOL — 20 million … Continue reading
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Tagged AOL, Google, Microsoft, Terry Semel, Time Warner, Yahoo
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Microsoft’s Yahoo! Hedge
Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo! is as much about its software business as its Internet business. Microsoft is ill-prepared to counteract Google’s assault on its Office monopoly.. Instead of fighting Microsoft in the PC software market, Google has … Continue reading
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Tagged Google, Internet, Microsoft, Search, software, Time Warner, Yahoo
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Apple and the Future of Movie Downloads
Movie download services have been about to take off for nearly 20 years. In the mid-1990s, Time Warner spent $10,000 a customer in Florida to show downloading movies over cable lines was technologically feasible. In 2008, movie downloads are still mired … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, CinemaNow, Digital Living Room, Downloads, iPods, iTunes, movies, Netflix, Time Warner, TV
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This Just In…No, Wait a Minute
Can The Internet really generate new entertainment properties? The reported cancellation of the HBO/AOL online comedy venture “This Just In” demonstrates that an age-old (for this business) question about the entertainment possibilities of the Web still have not … Continue reading