Tim Arango
The Archive
DOLAN IT OUT - CABLEVISION PROBING YEARS OF OPTIONS GRANTS
August 9, 2006 | 4:00amCablevision became the latest company embroiled in Wall Street's stock options scandal when the Long Island cable operator said yesterday that its financial results over the last nine years were...
FILMS LEAD NEWS CORP. TO STRONG PROFIT POP
August 9, 2006 | 4:00amA day after announcing a blockbuster $900 million advertising and search deal with Google, media giant News Corp. yesterday reported a surge in quarterly and full-year earnings. News Corp., which...
BUCK$ FOR BLOG: SOFTBANK PUTS $5M IN HUFF POST
August 7, 2006 | 4:00amA group led by venture capital firm Softbank is investing $5 million in the Huffington Post, an online news site and political blog owned by the pundit Arianna Huffington, The...
FREE-FOR-ALL; TIME WARNER, AOL FEUDING LIKE OLD TIMES
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S too bad for Jon Miller that Don Logan is off fishing and running a minor league baseball team. Miller, the boss at America Online, would be forgiven for wishing...
NOW AOL 'FREES' 5,000 STAFFERS
August 4, 2006 | 4:00amA day after announcing a plan to give away many of its services for free, America Online said yesterday it will send out nearly 5,000 pink slips. The job cuts,...
NEW PLAN TO REVIVE AOL IS UNVEILED
August 3, 2006 | 4:00amIn December 2002 the newish America Online boss Jon Miller took the podium at a Midtown Manhattan hotel to unveil the company's turnaround strategy in what became a nearly four-hour...
AOL'S NEW PLAN THE NEXT HOPE FOR ONLINE GIANT
August 3, 2006 | 4:00amIn December 2002 the newish America Online boss Jon Miller took the podium at a Midtown Manhattan hotel to unveil the company's turnaround strategy in what became a nearly four-hour...
LENNON BILLBOARD IS BACK
August 2, 2006 | 4:00amLions Gate is reminding New Yorkers about the summer of '69. To promote its upcoming documentary on John Lennon and the U.S. government's efforts more than 35 years ago to...
TAME THAT ZUNE - M'SOFT'S NEW IPOD KILLER FACING AD CASH CLASH
August 1, 2006 | 4:00amAs Microsoft considers how to wage its upcoming war against Apple and its all-powerful iPod, the tech giant may run into unlikely enemies: the broadcast and cable networks it needs...
TW ADDS TO BOARD
August 1, 2006 | 4:00amTime Warner yesterday added the chief of a large German newspaper chain to its board of directors as part of an agreed-upon plan with raider Carl Icahn to add new...
TW ADDING GERMAN MEDIA BIG TO BOARD
August 1, 2006 | 4:00amTime Warner yesterday added the chief of a large German newspaper chain to its board of directors as part of an agreed-upon plan with corporate raider Carl Icahn to add...
KARAN'S KIBOSH; DESIGNER DISSES 'ARROGANT' CEO CANDIDATE WEBER
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amTHE designer Donna Karan is said to be less than thrilled with the potential choice of Mark Weber as the new CEO of her company, Donna Karan International. Weber, who...
SHAKE-UP @ AOL - BEWKES BETS ON COMEBACK FOR TROUBLED DOT-COM
July 28, 2006 | 4:00amWhile Time Warner is set to unveil the details on a plan to make many of the features at America Online free, behind the scenes the media giant is weighing...
MARTHA RALLIES - MAG AD SURGE PROMPTS SHARES TO JUMP 10%
July 27, 2006 | 4:00amAt least yesterday, everybody loved Martha. Martha Stewart's company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia took a giant step toward winning back the confidence of investors when it reported a surge in...
IDENTITY CRISIS - CABLEVISION LOSES EMPLOYEE DATA
July 26, 2006 | 4:00amWorkers at Cablevision are at risk of having their identities swiped after an outside vendor lost a trove of personal data about participants in the cable giant's retirement-savings plan, The...
M'SOFT NEEDS 'HELP!' IN IPOD WAR
July 25, 2006 | 4:00amIt may not be Microsoft's vast tech expertise that ensures success in its coming digital music battle with Apple, but rather a rock band from the 1960s. Looming over Microsoft's...
$KY'S THE LIMIT - SUN VALLEY BUZZ BOOSTS YOUTUBE TOWARD $1B
July 23, 2006 | 4:00amWHAT is a week at investment bank Allen & Co.'s annual Sun Valley confab worth? For Chad Hurley, the founder of the hot online video company YouTube, it might be...
BIG 3 WANT BMG - SUITORS JOCKEY FOR PRIZE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amBertelsmann has whittled down the number of bidders for its music-publishing arm to a handful, including offers from the three major music companies Universal, Warner Music and EMI, according to...
FUNNY BIZ: VIACOM EYES ONION
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amBig media is expected to continue its buying spree on the Internet, as both CollegeHumor.com and The Onion are on the verge of being bought out. The satirical newspaper and...
MUSIC DEAL'S ON ICE - EMI-WARNER UNLIKELY
July 18, 2006 | 4:00amDespite initial optimism that last week's European court decision overturning the 2004 SonyBMG merger was merely a technicality, executives at EMI and Warner are likely to put their merger plans...