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  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. While reporting it’s third quarter earnings Thursday, MICROSOFT reminded the world that Saturday would be the cutoff date for its acquisition of YAHOO. Earlier in the week YAHOO CEO Jerry Yang said the company will not accept a deal that Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yesterday, YAHOO’s Jerry Yang said, “We will not enter into any deal that does not recognize the full value of this company.” Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer answered, “If Yahoo!’s shareholders like it, that’s great. We are prepared to go forward without Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. MICROSOFT was not impressed with YAHOO’s earnings call yesterday. A source close to Microsoft is quoted as saying, “Isn’t this the same earnings and growth that got them to $19 per share in January?” Jerry Yang’s position, and I quote: Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. SAMSUNG chairman Lee Kun-hee will step down after being indicted for tax evasion. Lee is the son of Samsung’s founder and has been running the company for the last twenty years. It is hard to determine exactly how Lee’s resignation Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Local mobile television was all the rage that last week’s NAB conference. Learn why watching local television on your handset is going to be a challenge at ShellyPalmer.com. VIACOM, MGM and LION’S GATE will launch an “as yet un-named” premium Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. GOOGLE announced that paid clicks jumped 20% in the first quarter, sending its stock soaring. However, the real story here is that COMSCORE was just plain wrong in its estimate that the search engine’s paid clicks grew by a mere Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. SAG has signed an interim pact with indie producers that will keep actors working on their productions in the event of a strike. While this may simply be a negotiating tactic to scare the AMPTP, it does raise the ominous Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. CABLE PROGRAMMERS have submitted a letter to Kevin Martin calling his a-la-carte proposal “devastating” for consumers, who will suddenly find themselves missing channels they expect to have with cable service. The letter also questioned the FCC’s legal right to enforce Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. 800 LOCAL TV STATIONS have formed The Open Mobile Coalition to approve standards for local mobile television before the February 2009 digital transition. The group made the announcement at NAB in Las Vegas, where mobile television is getting all the Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. SHELLY PALMER discusses the connections between 8 teenagers in Florida, kidnapping, assault and online video. Read this week’s essay, “What We Can Learn From Eight Florida Teens”. GOOGLE will soon open up its beta TV ad-buying service to the general Continue Reading →