News Corp: Bewildered Pioneer

News Corporation is a $27 billion diversified media and entertainment company. The Company operates in eight business segments: Filmed Entertainment (Twentieth Century Fox), Television (Fox Television Stations), Cable Network Programming (Fox News Channel), Direct Broadcast Satellite Television (Sky Italia, BSkyB), Magazines (The Weekly Standard) and Inserts, Newspapers (The Sun, New York Post), Book Publishing (HarperCollins),

Read Full Article »

Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 13)

Maggie also sits on the board of The McClatchy Company. Here we discuss some of the market preassures facing McClatchy and what she views as the way ahead. Of course, we have discussed the newspaper industry’s woes in a fair bit of detail here recently. It’s interesting to hear how a Board Member views those

Read Full Article »

In Step With the Times?

Time Warner Inc. is a leading Media and Entertainment Company engaged in providing Publishing, Broadcasting and Interactive Services. The business of the Company is broadly classified into five segments. The key segments include the Cable business that primarily comprises of interests in cable systems, providing video, high-speed data and voice services; the Filmed Entertainment business,

Read Full Article »

Web 3.0 & Personal Finance: Synthesis

Online advertising spend is expected to be $19.2 billion in 2007 and eMarketer expects the financial services sector to increase its online ad spending by 33.3% in 2007 to $2.4 billion and reach $3.52 billion by 2010. This makes the sector one of the largest advertisers online, and thus validates the compelling case for online

Read Full Article »

Tribune To Zell

Tribune Company accepted a bid from Sam Zell after the Chicago real-estate tycoon met the company’s demand for a higher offer to match one from Los Angeles billionaires Ronald W. Burkle and Eli Broad, The New York Times reported, citing a person close to the talks. Precise terms of the deal were expected to be

Read Full Article »

Bite-Size Entertainment

By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting on the Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. The second panel on “Mobile VAS: Time to look beyond Ring Tones and Wallpapers?” was moderated by Sandeep Singhal, Managing Director of Nexus India Capital. Rajesh Sawhney, President of Reliance Entertainment, emphasized how entertainment outshone all other applications

Read Full Article »

Web 3.0 and Seeking Alpha

We have reviewed Yahoo, MSN, Marketwatch, AOL and CNNMoney’s Personal Finance offerings in the earlier posts and in this final section of finance related site reviews we are going to take a look at Seeking Alpha from the Web 3.0 perspective.

Wisdom From the Trenches

By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting on the Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. Acknowledging that the Internet is becoming core to people’s lives and that there is room for various online business models, Ashish Gupta, Managing Director of Helion VC, pointed out some of the challenges facing investors in the Internet

Read Full Article »