Yahoo reportedly places bid to buy Hulu stake Saturday, May 25, 2013
Yahoo is apparently determined to show that it can do more than pay $1.1 billion for a bunch of teenage girls’ blogs. Unnamed sources tell Bloomberg that Yahoo has submitted an offer to buy video streaming website Hulu, a sign that the company is still considering ways to counter the enormous video .. .. read more..
Another patent suit bites the dust: Motorola can’t ban Xbox Saturday, May 25, 2013
The good news with patent suits is that even when they’re successful they very rarely result in outright sales bans of popular products. And now Ars Technica reports that yet another attempt to enforce a sales ban has fallen flat on its face, this time Motorola’s attempt to stop sales of Microsoft’s.. .. read more..
News Corp. OKs poison pill, buyback before split Friday, May 24, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) — News Corp. said its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies. The company also adopted a shareholder-rights plan designed to prevent a hostile takeover in the volatile trading period after the split is c.. .. read more..
Report: Yahoo, pay-TV operators among Hulu bidders Friday, May 24, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Online video site Hulu is again up for sale, with Yahoo and pay TV operators DirecTV and Time Warner Cable among the seven bidders, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. .. read more..
Despite upcoming Xbox One launch, Microsoft aims to sell 25 million more Xbox 36.. Friday, May 24, 2013
Microsoft’s newly unveiled Xbox One has gamers excited despite some huge question marks, but Microsoft thinks its current-generation Xbox 360 still has legs. Speaking with Official Xbox Magazine, Microsoft’s senior vice president of Interactive Entertainment Business Yusuf Mehdi said that the compan.. .. read more..