Richard Greenfield
Richard Greenfield
Richard Greenfieldwas an American publisher...
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(Digital music) is a business that's supposedly at a very early stage of its development. When one of the biggest drivers of this story stalls out so early, it calls into question the overall industry business model.
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It's encouraging. I don't think the business is completely out of the woods yet, but we are significantly better in 2006 than anyone expected.
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Given how concerned investors are in the media sector, Viacom's ability to generate 5 percent revenue growth excluding the film business illustrates why we think there is significant underlying value in the assets.
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The gross profit dollars that AOL makes in narrow-band are as good as they will be in broadband, ... AOL's narrow-band business remains healthy, and there's a focus on both parts of the business and not on one versus the other.
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It's very unclear whether consumers are going to be interested. It's still a very limited basket of channels.
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It's ironic: A year ago people were questioning whether it would exist, and now five of the largest media tech companies in the world are speculated to be interested in buying a piece of it for multiple billion dollars.
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The public outcry following a large withhold vote in this age of corporate governance scrutiny may force the Disney board to act quickly after Wednesday's annual meeting.
advertising growth result
the result should be sustained/accelerating growth in advertising revenues.
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Every media company should be thinking long and hard about whether search is just a two-horse race or if they could potentially create a third horse.
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The move simply gives Malone a more liquid and tradable asset if he has normal voting rights. It's perfectly logical for Liberty to want voting rights in a company in which they own shares now that circumstances have changed.
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A $US20 billion ($A27.09 billion) buyback is better than $US12 billion ($A16.25 billion), which is better than $US5 billion ($A6.77 billion), which is where we were a while ago.
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Television was substantially weaker than expected, ... The aggregate strength of that growth rate in the weakest quarter for News Corp is a very positive indication of how undervalued the stock is at current levels.
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Right now we don't know a lot. Both sides are talking and who knows what the art of negotiation is.
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The strength of the AOL cash flow and billed subscribers were better than investors were expecting and an increase in full-year guidance is clearly a good sign.