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  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on AMAZON’s (NASD: AMZN) boost in revenue and how the numbers don’t exactly reflect the company’s performance. MICROSOFT (NASD: MSFT) is expanding its search ads deal with FACEBOOK. Under the new deal, Microsoft will provide web search Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on GOOGLE (NASD: GOOG) launching Knol and the culture of Mountain View. The NEW YORK TIMES (NYSE: NYT) reported a net income of $21.1 million for the second quarter, down from $118.4 million from the second quarter Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on YAHOO’s (NASD: YHOO)slumping stock price and its future with Carl Icahn. TechCrunch is reporting that GOOGLE (NASD: GOOG) is once again in negotiations to buy DIGG. Google will reportedly pay roughly $200 million for the social Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on TIVO (NASD: TIVO) and AMAZON (NASD: AMZN) teaming for “product purchase” and how this type of transactional schema is a parlor trick. YAHOO (NASD: YHOO) and CARL ICAHN have struck a deal that will give Icahn Continue Reading →

In case you haven’t noticed, the business of broadcast television is in trouble. Ratings have been trending down year over year for more than 30 years and there’s no end in sight. Most pundits blame this audience fragmentation on outside forces like the proliferation of cable channels, DVDs, video gaming, DVR’s and most recently online Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. SAG has officially rejected the AMPTP’s contract offer from June 30th. In a letter to Guild members, national executive director Doug Allen said the offer “snuffs out residuals” for new media projects. SAG believes that recent investments in VOD and Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on TIME WARNER (NYSE: TWX) trying to deal AOL and how it will affect the future of the search ads business. In Washington D.C., GOOGLE (NASD: GOOG) and MICROSOFT (NASD: MSFT) took their YAHOO (NASD: YHOO) battle Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on eBay’s (NASD: EBAY) legal victory over TIFFANY (NYSE: TIF) and how its blown deal with BUY.com will affect its brand. MICROSOFT (NASD: MSFT) announced a deal with NETFLIX (NASD: NFLX) that will make the Xbox 360 Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Read Shelly’s commentary on personal storage clouds, “Clouds and Pirates: Darknets Rising” on the blog. IN BEV (INTB.BR) and ANHEUSER-BUSCH (NYSE: BUD) have agreed to a $52 billion merger. The deal will form the multi-national Anheuser-Busch InBev, which would’ve combined Continue Reading →

Kung Fu Panda is doing a great job for Paramount this summer. As of today, the movie has grossed $196,680,294. It is still playing on 3,347 screens nationwide and after five weeks in release it is still number five behind Get Smart, Wanted, Wall-E and Hancock. So imagine how surprised I was to receive an Continue Reading →