Filed under: Television, Time Warner (TWX), Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA), News Corp'B' (NWS), Media World According to The Hollywood Reporter , media conglomerate Disney (NYSE: DIS) intends to keep the song going at the High School Musical workshop. The fourth film in the series will return to th...

Another week, another five work days into a recession. There were a few distractions along the way, of course. BoomTown reported Monday in a major scoop that Yahoo’s (YHOO) Jerry Yang will indeed be stepping down as soon as the Yahoo board can find a suitable replacement. Digital Daily argued ...

Covering any part of the positives in this market has been literally as rewarding as jumping in the bear cage with the bears at the zoo.  We have been refraining from doing as many stocks which are on 52-week lows as the list is just too many companies.  But after the close we perused the ...

Like the zombies in “Night of the Living Dead” who will not die, the notion of a big, sloppy deal for Microsoft to buy Yahoo is revived yet again in an article in The Wall Street Journal today. Unfortunately for both Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT), it mostly serves to point out once a...

Filed under: Press releases, Products and services, Marketing and advertising, News Corp'B' (NWS) English rock band The Verve, famous for the hit single "Bitter Sweet Symphony" and the ensuing struggle over the rights to the song (eventually awarded to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards because the song...

Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has asked for it, although he has gone all kittenish now, after realizing his scheme to get Microsoft (MSFT) to buy Yahoo (YHOO) was over, once Yahoo signed on with Google (GOOG) to outsource some of its search-ad business. And then the New York Times’s...

While Microsoft’s (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo’s (YHOO) CEO Jerry Yang hemmed and hawed about what had happened in their disastrous takeover battle that ended not with a bang, but a whimper, everyone else who appeared onstage at the sixth D: All Things Digital conference last week ...

Filed under: Law, Internet, News Corp'B' (NWS) It's pretty rare that a victory in a $230 million lawsuit is only a moral victory, but Myspace, which is owned by News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), has won just such a case. The company sued Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines for spamming the social networking site...

Filed under: Products and services, Launches, General Electric (GE), Time Warner (TWX), Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), News Corp'B' (NWS) Since last year's summer movie preview featured mostly sequels and adaptations, this year's preview has been expanded to include more than ...

Filed under: Newspapers, News Corp'B' (NWS), Media World The special committee set up by Rupert Murdoch to ensure the editorial independence of the Wall Street Journal is about as useful as a referee at a professional wrestling bout. The sad thing is that News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) is paying members of ...