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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Yahoo Loses One Of Their Top Deal Guys - One More Exec Gone	As anyone could guess, the Yahoo executive exodus continues. Kent Goldman, Yahoo’s Director of Corporate Development and one of their top deal guys, is rumored to be leaving the company. Goldman joined Yahoo in 2004 as Director of Business Strategy, reporting to Toby Coppel (at that time Yahoo’s Chief Strategy Officer - now Managing Director of Yahoo Europe). If this is accurate, the total number of Yahoo execs who have exited the company since January 2007 is approximately 115. 18 ...	June 27, 2008
Napster: Investment Group Vows Proxy Fight	Three investors have disclosed in a lengthy filing with the SEC that they play to stage a proxy fight for three Napster (NAPS) board seats. The trio includes Perry Rod, who describes himself as an independent investor and president of Market Rap LLC, a company developing an investor community site, as well as chairman of The Paradise Project, “a non-profit religious organization;” Thomas Sailors, of investment firm Cloverdale Investments, and a former managing director at Bank of Ame...	June 26, 2008
Off To NYC so a Morning linkfest Instead	Not for a lack of ideas, let’s see what the blogosphere has fpr you: 1. Jim Cramer is building a wind play (his mouth and ass have been stapled shut and he is being force fed beans) - go watch the video . 2. A broken, but interesting ‘China is getting Fatter, Fatser than us ‘ Play - MEND (sent in from a friend in the business that sells their product overseas. 3. Always lots of good new ideas coming from Jeff on StockTwits. 4. The Stock Jockey has been one of my favorite f...	June 24, 2008
When the Blogosphere Works -- and When it Doesn't	At "A Dash" we have an ongoing interest in how consumers--especially investors-- can get useful information from the Internet. It is one of the chapters in our book, where will consider in detail the various Internet sources. It is important to understand what one can and cannot learn from the Wild West Blogosphere.BackgroundAbnormal Returns, one of our long-standing featured sites, helps investors learn what they should be reading. It takes a lot of work to read and consider scores of dif...	June 23, 2008
Media World: NBC lucked out when Tom Brokaw 'volunteered' to host 'Meet the Press'	Filed under: Television, General Electric (GE), Media WorldNBC News President Steve Capus and his boss at the General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE)-owned network, Jeff Zucker, are thanking their lucky stars that Tom Brokaw will be the interim host of "Meet the Press" through the November election.Brokaw, who was anchor of "NBC Nightly News" for more than two decades, agreed to take on more duties at the network after chatting over a beer with Capus aboard an Amtrak train traveling from Washington to N...	June 23, 2008
RHI's IPO gets so-so ratings	Filed under: Deals, General Electric (GE), CBS Corp 'B' (CBS)Hollywood veteran Robert Halmi and his son, Robert, helped to build an entertainment firm back in the late 1970s -- and it turned out to be a great success. In fact, by 1994 they sold it off to Hallmark Cards. Then, in 2006 Robert teamed up with Kelso (a private equity firm) to acquire Hallmark Entertainment, which was renamed RHI Entertainment (NASDAQ: RHIE) And, this week, RHI has hit the public markets - pricing its IPO at $14 per ...	June 19, 2008
CBS Relaunches Dotspotter As TheInsider.com	After paying a reported $10 million for celebrity gossip blog and news site DotSpotter in October 2007, CBS has relaunched it as TheInsider.com. The new site is tied into CBS celebrity gossip show of the same name, The Insider. Dotspotter was like a Digg for celebrity news, and that aspect is retained in the new site where stories can be voted up or down. They can also comment on stories and submit their own, which have chance to make it to homeage, alongside posts written by the site’...	June 17, 2008
Wallstrip Discusses Disqus.com	Daniel Ha, co-founder of Disqus.com - the great cross platform comment system that I use on this blog and 20,000 other sites use as well - discusses the platform with Julie from our CBS offices in menlo Park. Swank. I am a small investor in Disqus.com, but I assure you I had no say in setting up the interview. The team likes it, although has only rolled it out on Moblogic so go figure. I have written about my investment in Disqus and why I think they will keep going great guns . Give it a try ...	June 17, 2008
Citigroup’s Merger Boss, Frank Yeary, Leaves for UC Berkeley	Which is more competitive, academia or Wall Street? Frank Yeary, who has headed the global M&A practice for Citigroup over the past five years, will have a chance to find out. He’s joining the University of California at Berkeley as a vice chancellor in August. So he’s giving up pitchbooks for, er, real books. Yeary, a Berkeley alum and seven-year member of the university’s board of trustees, will help Berkeley make friends with the business community and lead the develop...	June 16, 2008
WWE needs to make Vince McMahon's giveaway more exciting	Filed under: Television, General Electric (GE), Walt Disney (DIS), CBS Corp 'B' (CBS), News Corp'B' (NWS)I recently wrote about World Wrestling Entertainment's (NYSE: WWE) million-dollar giveaway plans. This is the scheme that sees the Mr. McMahon character reward viewers who register at the company's website with portions of his fortune. He calls them up on the phone during WWE's RAW program and doles out various sums; according to this press release, one winner got $200,000, while another play...	June 16, 2008

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