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Choosing Yahoo's next CEO

At a Churchill Club event, Wall Street Journal columnist Kara Swisher tells CNET News Editor in Chief Dan Farber whom she'd pick to succeed Jerry Yang as Yahoo's chief executive. The AllThingsD blogger believes that the No. 1 choice inside and outside of Yahoo is News Corp. Chief Operating Officer...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., AllThingsD Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Kara Swisher, Dan Farber, Yahoo, Peter Chernin

Videos 2008-11-19

From Peter Chernin to Mark Cuban: Picking Jerry Yang's Replacement

From Peter Chernin to Mark Cuban: Picking Jerry Yang's ReplacementMark Cuban?Only if he doesn't pull a Martha Stewart, and lie to investigators looking into his insider trading deal...and what are the chances of that? ;-)

Tags: Mark Cuban, Picking Jerry Yang, Peter Chernin

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

From Peter Chernin to Mark Cuban: Picking Jerry Yang's Replacement

So, Peter Chernin's name keeps coming up as a potential replacement for Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo. Chernin's the always-cool president of News Corp. Under Rupert Murdoch and Chernin, the old-line publisher and broadcaster has shown serious savvy about new media. People...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Mark Cuban, Peter Chernin, Corporate Communications, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Marketing, Management, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-11-19

D5: News Corp.'s Peter Chernin view on MySpace

News Corp. President Peter Chernin explained how MySpace provides a good example of how his company would be a good steward for Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal if it were able to acquire the company. "We had to learn a completely different paradign," Chernin said, "where our job...

Tags: D5, MySpace, Social networking

Blog posts 2007-05-30

News Corp.: MySpace on track to top annual sales of $500 million; post modest profit

MySpaces fiscal 2007 sales are on track to top $500 million with more growth to come in 2008, said News Corp. chief operating officer Peter Chernin. News Corp., which revealed the glimpse of MySpaces financial results on its fiscal second quarter...

Tags: General, Google, MySpace, Peter Chernin

Blog posts 2007-02-07

Additional Resources

Watch out MySpace, here comes Rupe

Peter Chernin, chief operating officer of News Corp., will step down as of June 30. The big question is what will happen to Fox Interactive Media--mostly known as MySpace--now that Chernin is gone.  The key paragraph in News Corp.'s statement on Chernin's departure is this one Techmeme:...

Tags: Fox Interactive Media, MySpace, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-23

News to know: Storm; Holiday gift guide;Lenovo malware; Dell

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Josh Taylor: Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm Gallery: Up close and personal: The BlackBerry Storm ZDNet's 2008 Holiday Gift Guide: Top...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Yahoo! Inc., T-Mobile, Malware, RIM BlackBerry, VUDU, Handhelds, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Yahoo: Pondering Yang's replacement; The next move

Now that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is out, the handicapping begins. Who will be Yang's replacement and what will that choice reveal about Yahoo's future? The story line Techmeme revolving around Yang's departure is familiar. Yang took over the company at the second worst time in Yahoo's...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., CEO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Internet, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Look Now: Digital TV Transition Already Here

The digital television transition has begun. And it has little to do with Feb. 17, 2009. Yah, that’s the date that all local TV broadcasters have to be sending out all their signals in digital form. And there are going to be a handful of clueless TV...

Tags: Advertisement, Digital Television, Digital Television Transition, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-15

How much are your friends worth?

News Corp. revealed yesterday that its new media subsidiary Fox Interactive Media FIM has missed this year's revenue target of $1bn by 10 per cent. FIM's portfolio is dominated by MySpace which accounts for the majority of its revenue, bringing into question once again the ability to monetize the huge...

Tags: Advertisement, Google AdWords, News Corp., MySpace, Advertiser, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthless

News Corp. confirmed what had been reported for weeks: Fox Interactive revenue isn't going to hit its targets. The problem: Social networking is still very hard to monetize. Does inventory matter when you can't sell it? Peter Chernin, News Corp.'s operating chief, delivered his state of MySpace...

Tags: Social Media, MySpace, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Did Google get hosed on its MySpace search deal?

Fox Interactive gets 27 percent of its revenue from an ad deal between Google and MySpace forged in August 2006. Meanwhile, Google executives complain about how hard it is to monetize social networking traffic. Funny how deals that looked like pure genius a few months ago can backfire. ...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., MySpace, Fox Interactive Media, Social Networking, Operational Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-05

MySpace U-turn: YouTube contributed to our success

Long time readers of this blog will remember the MySpace vs YouTube war of words and actions that dominated much of 2006. It began when MySpace, albeit temporarily, blocked access to YouTube videos on the social networking site, reached its peak following the Google-acquisition of YouTube, and concluded with the...

Tags: YouTube Inc., MySpace, Social Networking, Corporate Communications, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-02-04

Fox Interactive turns annual profit; MySpace revenue to top $800 million in fiscal 2008

News Corp. said its Fox Interactive unit, which largely consists of MySpace, turned a profit of $10 million on revenue of $550 million for the fiscal year ending June 30.Overall, News Corp. reported fourth quarter earnings from continuing operations of $890 million on revenue of $7.36 billion. News Corp....

Tags: Revenue, News Corp., MySpace, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-08

News to know: Google Gears; Intel V8; Firefox patch; Bill and Steve

Notable headlines:David Berlind: Podcast: ‘Google Gears’ vies to be de facto tech for offline Web apps. Ed Burnette and Marc Orchant.Google kicks offline Web apps into gear. Ryan Stewart:What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo . O'Reilly Radar: Google releases open source toolkit for offline web apps....

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-05-31

D5: Steve Jobs evangelizes the iPhone and Apple TV

Steve Jobs took the stage following News Corp. President Peter Chernin for an interview with Walt Mossberg at the D conference. He was if full product evangelist, selling mode, describing the magic Apple's products. He attributed Apple's success to "software wrapped in really wonderful hardware. The software [on...

Tags: Apple, D5, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Coming up: D--All Things Digital conference

This week I'll be at the Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference at a balmy resort near San Diego. The advertised highlight is Steve Jobs and Bill Gates making a "historic" joint appearance on stage with hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. The two will "discuss the...

Tags: Apple, D5, General, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-05-27

NBC, MySpace partner up to compete with YouTube

The titans of the Internet will face off this summer when NBC Universal and News Corp. partner up to launch a new video-sharing site to compete with Googles YouTube, reports the San Jose Mercury News. Free videos will be available on AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo, shortly after...

Tags: MySpace, NBC Universal Inc., partnership, video, YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-26

Zucker & Chernin vs. YouTube: Sink or swim?

Is the soon to be launched “largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled,” doomed before it even sets video sail?After all, the who needs YouTube strategic alliance engenders coopetition risks between News Corporation and NBC Universal, the venture’s founding partners. What’s more, not only are the deal’s principals direct competitors,...

Tags: YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-22

Google CEO trumped by power video play

Google’s greatest cheerleader, CEO Eric Schmidt, is being trumped at his own online video game, big time!Schmidt confidently boasted just weeks ago that the Google one-two YouTube and Google Video punch renders Google invincible on the Internet video front, saying to Wall Street that other sites may host their own...

Tags: Donna Bogatin, Google Inc., NBC Universal, NBC Universal Inc., News Corp., online video, video

Blog posts 2007-03-22