Archive for the 'CNET' Category
Wow.
A couple of weeks ago I ran down a number of companies CBS should buy and concluded: CBS should buy CNET.
Today, it’s official.
Quincy and Mike, you can send me my M&A consulting fee, made out Granicus Group. Jokes aside, this is a good move as it adds $400M in annual revenues to CBS Interactive at […]
Tags: CBS, CNET, Internet & Web, M&A|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | May 15th
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Last week I ran down a list of potential acquisition targets for CBS Interactive. I ended up with the conclusion that only CNET would provide a strategic fit with enough leverage. Mind you, with his ability to peer into upcoming trends and opportunities, CBS’ President Quincy Smith is enamored with Web 2.0 (that’s […]
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Paid Content refers to a NYT article on CBS which calls for the company that Bill Paley built to make digital acquisitions, which begs the question: should they go for a big purchase or make small moves?
Of course, answering that question alone without addressing the backdrop to that question yields an incomplete picture.
CBS has hit […]
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Between Yahoo! and CNET, I wonder if 2008’s storyline is: stay private, maintain control?
CNET will reduce costs, sure, but turns out the layoffs will also hurt revenues. Now is the time to be investing in digital, not scaling back. The companies that invested throughout 2001-04 ended up strengthening their hands… those who scaled back paid […]
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Obviously, this post is in jest, but too bad NYT settled its differences with Harbinger.
Jana Partners is hounding CNET… They own 25% of the outstanding stock.
Harbinger Capital Partners, a part of the Harbert Management Corporation, was doing the same to NYT. They own some 10%.
Here’s a crazy idea: why not merge? I know this has […]
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The Sulzbergers own 88% of New York Times Company’s super-shares, which gives them a lock on the company’s board, but a group of investors are looking to add nominees to the Board, having spent $400M to build up a nearly 20% stake in the company, according to Paid Content.
“Super-shares” heh? I believe that’s what Mike […]
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Last week I saw a pretty random press release on YouTube surpassing Google as the world’s #2 ranked site as measured by Alexa. Odd, I thought. I did not even read it, but for whatever reason, it stuck with me. It was odd because some time ago YouTube surpassed MySpace, and I commented […]
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Reading more and more about Yahoo!’s latest foray in video, I could not help but think about Google’s challenges at its YouTube unit.
I attended YouTube’s Videocracy shindig this week. Entering Terminal 5, I had no idea what to expect. I’ll spare all of the details; walking away from the event, however, I wondered:
Will […]
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I like rumors and crazy speculation as much as the next guy, this one is dead on arrival:
Shares of media company CNET Networks Inc, currently battling dissident shareholders who want to expand its board, soared more than 7 percent on Friday, on speculation that Google Inc might be interested in acquiring a stake in it.
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The following is a perpetual-work-in-progress. Once you start to compile a list of mergers and acquisitions, you realize why it’s nearly impossible to have a complete list. We are quite confident that the following is a very good, comprehensive list of the largest, more notable deals… but it is not - and no list will […]
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