Top Items:
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
BREAKING: CBS Acquiring CNET For $1.8 Billion; 44.6 Percent Premium — CBS (NYSE: CBS) is acquiring CNET (NSDQ: CNET) for $1.8 billion in cash. The purchase price comes to $11.50 per share, representing a 44.6 percent premium over last night's closing price of $7.95.
RELATED:
PR Newswire:
CBS Corporation To Acquire CNET Networks, Inc. — CBS to Become a Top Ten U.S. Internet Company with Unparalleled Content and Reach, Boasting Approximately 200 Million Monthly Unique Users Worldwide — CNET Networks' CNET, ZDNet, GameSpot.com, TV.com, CNET News, UrbanBaby, BNET …
Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:
CBS to buy CNET Networks — CBS has agreed to acquire CNET Networks in a deal valued at $1.8 billion, the companies said Thursday. — The purchase price comes to $11.50 per share, representing a 44 percent premium over Wednesday's closing price of $7.95.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
CBS Buying CNET For $1.8 Billion; CBS Predicts $1 Billion Interactive Revenues By 2010 — CBS will pay $11.50 a share for CNET. The all-cash deal represents a premium of 44% above the $7.95 CNET closed at yesterday. Will it be enough to satisfy JANA et al?
Discussion:
paidContent.org, HipMojo.com, BeyondVC, The Boy Genius Report, The Social Times, MarketingVOX, MediaFlect, innonate, Smalltalk Tidbits … and Tech Ticker
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
CBS-CNET: Interview: Leslie Moonves, CEO, CBS: ‘Right Opportunity, Right Time, Right Price’ — Just got off the phone with CBS CEO Leslie Moonves in his first interview following the announcement that CBS (NYSE: CBS) will acquire CNET (NSDQ: CNET) for $1.8 billion in cash.
Peter Edmonston / DealBook:CBS to Pay $1.8 Billion for CNET Networks
Discussion:
Reflections of a Newsosaur, Bits, Silicon Alley Insider, 24/7 Wall St., MarketingShift and Lost Remote
Roy Bostock / PR Newswire:
Icahn Sends Open Letter to Board of Directors of Yahoo! — SECURITY HOLDERS ARE ADVISED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE SOLICITATION OF PROXIES BY Carl C. Icahn AND HIS AFFILIATES FROM THE STOCKHOLDERS OF YAHOO! INC. FOR USE AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING …
RELATED:
Lauren Pollock / Wall Street Journal:
Icahn Moves to Oust Yahoo Board — Billionaire Hopes to Revive a Deal with Microsoft — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn officially launched a proxy contest to unseat Yahoo Inc.'s board, writing in a letter to Chairman Roy Bostock “the board of directors of Yahoo has acted irrationally …
Discussion:
Between the Lines, Digital Daily, All about Microsoft, Silicon Alley Insider and Tech Confidential
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Advice For Jerry Yang — Steve Kirsch is one of a handful of people who can appreciate what Yahoo! Chief Executive Jerry Yang is facing right now. — The entrepreneur and former chief executive of Infoseek, a search engine that has withered away since being acquired by Disney, thinks Yahoo! …
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Icahn Confirms Stake And Proxy Fight; Pushing For Microsoft; Mark Cuban On List — Game on: Carl Icahn has confirmed a 59 million share stake in Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and he plans to push for the marriage of it and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), according to a letter sent to the Yahoo board.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:Yahoo: I have seen the future of search, and it's ... a monkey?
Discussion:
eWeek
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
At The Churchill Club: The Top 10 Tech Trends — I'm at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose tonight, for the Churchill Club's annual Top 10 Tech Trends Dinner. This is the club's 10th annual tech trend panel. Making the picks: — Steve Jurvetson, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. — Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures.
Discussion:
A VC, The Pondering Primate, Redeye VC, LEWIS 360°, Guardian Unlimited, VentureWoods and VentureBeat
Associated Press:
Nintendo hit with $21 million patent infringement — LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — Nintendo of America Inc. was ordered to pay a small East Texas gaming company $21 million Wednesday for infringing on a patent while designing controllers for its popular Wii and GameCube systems.
RELATED:
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Anatomy of a rumor: The Atom-powered Newton iPhone — As Winston Churchill might have put it, an Apple rumor can fly halfway around the world before truth has a chance to get its boots on. — Case in point: the iPhone mini-tablet story that broke Wednesday afternoon in Germany.
RELATED:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amazon May Sell $750 Million In Kindles by 2010 (That's A Lot Of Kindles) — The Kindle, Amazon's ugly but useful ebook reader that launched in November 2007, may be a burgeoning hit, says Citigroup Analyst Mark Mahaney. Citi expects Amazon to generate between $400 million and $750 million …
RELATED:
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Amazon Kindle a $750 Million iPod-Like Business By 2010 (AMZN)
Discussion:
Podcasting News
Guardian:
How Apple is changing DRM — As more stores and record labels abandon digital rights management, Apple may have an alternative plan for subscription services, writes Tim Anderson — When Apple approached record companies about selling their music digitally five years ago, they …
Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Adobe Introduces P2P Flash Player, Kills CDNs — Today Adobe announced the public beta of a new Flash Player that is going to change the way we all use the Internet. More importantly, the new player changes the economics of the Internet. — Interestingly the two really key features …
RELATED:
Andrew Greenberg / Forbes:
Ask.com: We're Not Dead — Jeeves, the former mascot of struggling search engine Ask.com, may be dead. But the site itself, CEO Jim Safka would like to remind everyone, is alive, and still dutifully serving up search results. — Its latest sign of life?
RELATED:
Karl / DSLreports:
Comcast Gets Investigated While Cox Gets Free Pass - New data from Glasnost project shows depth of Cox BitTorrent blocking.... Earlier this month I directed your attention to a new test dubbed the Glasnost Project, a Java applet project by the Max Planck Institute in Germany …
Mike Jones / Official Google Maps API Blog:
Introducing the Google Maps API for Flash — Here at Google, we receive a lot of feature requests - and it feels great every time we fulfill one of them. The ability to utilize the power of Google Maps from Flash is one of those requests that has been popping up on blog posts and other forums since …
