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Media Giants Form UK Net Ads Body
News The Internet Advertising Group (IAG) is backed by a raft of media and other heavyweights including the BBC, Microsoft, the Financial Times, News International, America Online, Channel 4, CompuServe, Yahoo!
[October 20, 1997, 10:25]
Giants Detail Media Streaming Plans
News As the pipes get fatter, streaming media servers will be the backbone to serve all kinds of content in the future. Separately, Sun Microsystems Inc.and RealNetworks of Seattle announced a partnership under which RealNetworks will develop versions...
[January 27, 1998, 11:45]
Media And Technology 'won't Merge'
News Media and technology will remain separate industries, experts agreed this week, despite talk of convergence and high-profile acquisitions of technology companies by media giants. Over the last six months, media giants have been increasing their...
[February 10, 2006, 10:55]
The Day Ahead: Debate Heats Up Over Online Advertising Outlook
News Rohan reckons that media giants such as America Online and Yahoo! would weather a slowdown because those portal giants have longer ad contracts. Wit SoundView analyst Jordan Rohan in a May 30 report sounded some alarm bells about online media and...
[June 7, 2000, 12:32]
Net Neutrality - The Web Is Under Threat
Forum The big telecoms giants apparently don't think they're making enough money (ah shucks, poor old them) and want to start a two tier internet. This is happening because the telecoms giants, who own the 'pipes' are getting squeezed out by VOIP and the...
[July 3, 2006, 10:05]
Napster's Subscription Holy Grail Fading
News Record labels, online music companies and Internet giants such as AOL Time Warner agree that creating a subscription service where people can listen to any song ever recorded is a potentially lucrative opportunity.
[February 13, 2001, 15:02]
Green Light For AOL-Time Warner Merger
News The technology, which allows people to exchange real-time text messages, is offered for free by many Internet giants. Announced a year ago, the merger ran into unexpected delays as government regulators probed every aspect of the deal, in which the...
[January 12, 2001, 7:58]
Major League Baseball Takes Swing At Sling Media
News So, a cable subscriber in San Francisco who watches a Giants baseball game from his or her laptop during a visit to Chicago is stealing from the Chicago cable operator who paid to transmit MLB games in that city.
[June 7, 2006, 11:10]
RealNetworks Signs Online Music Pact
News In a widely anticipated move, RealNetworks on Monday formed a pact with media giants AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and EMI Group to bring about a new music subscription service online, dubbed MusicNet.
[April 2, 2001, 13:17]
Yahoo! May Float European Businesses
News Rivals such as Excite and Infoseek have already been acquired by media giants. Yahoo currently has agreements with hundreds of media companies. Internet portal Yahoo! may float its European subsidiary as it pursues an independent strategy, founder...
[January 17, 2000, 12:28]
News Corp. Exec Puts Piracy In Spotlight
News But media giants are hesitant to support the development of products such as DVD burners and digital video recorders, which can play, copy and distribute content. A key executive from media giant News Corp.on Tuesday urged cooperation between media...
[November 20, 2002, 7:47]
Net Users Still Hesitant To Pay
News In this era of tightening advertising budgets and economic malaise, media giants, entertainment companies and others have turned to charging people to access their content. The percentage of online adults willing to pay for content on the Internet...
[March 20, 2002, 14:45]
Online Ad Market Shows Signs Of Recovery
News A recovery is far from assured, but even a glimmer of improvement would be welcomed by publishers of niche content sites to online media giants such as AOL Time Warner and Microsoft's MSN. Any gains will be particularly valuable for the Web's...
[December 11, 2001, 16:45]
AOL Aims To Supercharge Streaming
News Despite years of tinkering, streaming costs remain too high for many would-be providers while quality is still too low to create a mass audience for commerical, Internet-powered entertainment services conceived by media giants such as AOL Time...
[June 27, 2002, 13:26]
The Music May Be Over For CDNow
News On 13 March, Time Warner and Sony scrapped a plan to acquire CDNow and merge it with the media giants' Columbia House music-marketing venture. The assets of Sony and Time Warner, two of the world's largest media companies, include record labels...
[March 29, 2000, 15:41]
The Day Ahead: Mileposts For AOL Time Warner
News Relative to other media giants, AOL Time Warner shares almost look cheap. Commentary: With the AOL Time Warner merger about to finally close, investors should put aside all the descriptions of the entertainment giant -- colossus, media empire...
[January 10, 2001, 14:03]
Gates Wants Information Everywhere
News Gates also previewed new products based on the new technology for attendees at CES, which has become an increasingly important venue for Microsoft and other technology giants to tout their consumer strategies.
[January 8, 2004, 8:40]
IBM Pulls Digital Tagging Plan
News The controversial plan, known as Content Protection for Removable Media (CPRM), had been proposed by 4C, a group of four consumer-technology giants: IBM, Intel, Toshiba and Matsushita. On Thursday, the committee gave the go-ahead for Phoenix to...
[February 23, 2001, 11:30]
Gates: MS Won't Be Broken
News Asked about the recent mega-merger between Internet and media giants America Online and Time Warner, Gates said it had come as a surprise. Gates noted Microsoft was pursuing a different strategy in the new media landscape, focused on software...
[January 15, 2000, 6:41]
New Windows Lock Could Enable Copyright Crackdown
News In addition, the inclusion of digital rights management technology, which has been on the wish list of Hollywood media giants, could make it nearly impossible to copy digital media files, analysts said.
[June 25, 2002, 9:08]
