Analyze This:
Pinterest has raised $100M, putting the scrapebooking start-up’s value at $1.5B!... Bubble, anyone? ---
Spotify – a "social music" service built partly on top of
Facebook – is said to be raising dollars valuing it at $4B (
NYTimes DealB%k has the story). ---
Warren Buffet’s
Berkshire Hathaway seems on a mission to save newspapers as it agrees to pick up 63 from troubled
Media General for $142M; Media General, mainly a broadcaster post-deal, will keep its Tampa papers for now.
Regulation:
FCC will hold an open meeting on
Bob Dylan’s birthday (05/24).
Online:
Comcast plans to test charging very heavy (+300 gigabytes) users $10/50 gigabytes for overages ... that 300 is enough to download 10 hours or so of movies.
Tech:
Business Insider says the latest
Apple TV rumor includes the addition of motion control. --- The US cable market keeps getting friendlier for iPads
et al as
TWC and
Viacom agree ... including finding common 'what's country?' ground.
Sports:
Forbes takes a look ...
click here for Mike Ozanians piece on TV sports advertisers.
Politics: Sen.
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) wants the
FCC to investigate
News Corp, saying, “There is evidence that News Corp. executives have been involved in misconduct at the highest levels." --- Some Senators want Brazilian native and Singapore resident
Eduardo Saverin to pay up for leaving the US a few months ago ... along with his citizenship.
Mobile: Faster 4G won’t include unlimited data deals from
Verizon Wireless.
Social Media: A bit, like
GM, confused by social marketing?
BusinessInsider shows you why ... check out this graphic. --- Still, they keep trying ...
Adweek has this story about
USA Networks' plans.
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