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  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on the premiere of NBC’s Knight Rider and how managing for margins makes for terrible television. Plus, today’s consulting question comes from Heidi R., an account exec from Bethpage, NY. Heidi asks, “When is free WiFi coming Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. LINKEDIN will launch the LinkedIn Audience Network today. Using LinkedIn’s profile-based targeting technology the LinkedIn Audience Network helps marketers efficiently reach specific audiences of influential and affluent professionals across hundreds of high quality brand-name publishers. ELECTRONIC ARTS (NASD: ERTS) has Continue Reading →

I’m not sure what I expected to find here. I haven’t been to this part of China since the early 90’s. Unlike Shenzhen, which is a brand new city, Beijing has a rich history and it is very, very old. But it doesn’t feel old – every other building is under construction, there are public Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube YAHOO Chairman ROY BOSTOCK sent CARL ICAHN a letter Thursday that said Icahn’s perspective on the botched MICROSOFT deal “reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal.” However, Bostock reiterated that Yahoo remained open to a deal Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube WiMax and the future of broadband. Check out my commentary on the blog. NBC will officially name Jimmy Fallon as the future host of Late Night. Fallon will takeover for Conan O’Brien beginning June of 2009, when O’Brien will begin Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. YAHOO’s stock plunged nearly 15% Monday. Major shareholders are furious with CEO Jerry Yang, whom they believe was bias against selling the company he co-founded in 1995. With majority stockholders angry and Yang still open to a deal with Microsoft, Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. MICROSOFT is expected to announce whether it will pursue a hostile takeover, complete a negotiated deal or walkway from acquiring YAHOO sometime today . Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was ambiguously quoted Thursday, saying “With the right circumstances it’ll happen. Without Continue Reading →

If she had a “type,” he’d be it. Tall, like her. Dark hair, broad shouldered, well dressed and well teched. It looked like he hadn’t shaved for a couple of days, but any uptown girl could tell that this was just additional proof of a refined fashion sense. Continue Reading →

BILL GATES opened CES with a clear statement of purpose, declaring that “All media will be software driven.” Gates handed the stage over to Microsoft president of Entertainment & Devices Robbie Bach to describe the company’s digital media initiatives. Bach announced that Xbox Live will gain content from MGM, Showtime, The Disney Channel and ABC. Continue Reading →

MICROSOFT will purchase 1.6% of FACEBOOK for $240 million, which places a $15 billion valuation on the three-year-old company. Microsoft will begin to sell banner ads for international versions of the site and split the revenue with Facebook. In related news, RIM launched Facebook software for Blackberries. BARRY DILLER told a group of conference attendees Continue Reading →