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CNNMoney.com’s video upside

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Nice bit on the recent trend on CNNMoney.com since we added an improved and enhanced video experience.  Jonathan Shar, CNNMoney.com GM and SVP,  comments that "we’re under our potential" and with the focus on the economy likely to continue through the Election cycle I expect he is correct.
The amount of video streams have moved the [...]

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Time Warner Q1 Earnings

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Well  the TWX earnings are out and fell inline with what everyone expected.  On our side (cable) we had some strong numbers and overall the outlook remained intact which is good considering how many others are weakening.
Outlook: Separately the company announced that adjusted op income growth would come in at 7 to 9 percent for [...]

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SportsNetwork as collateral damage

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Well the weekend wasn’t too busy but this morning the SportsNetwork site was hacked and then taken down as they try to regain control.
The Sports Network website and other major news sites have been hacked by a political entity from China, and as a result are temporarily unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to [...]

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Could be a busy weekend

April 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Story on Computerworld this morning warns of possible DDOS attack for CNN.com this weekend.
nationalistic Chinese hackers have issued a call for a distributed denial of service attack against CNN to coincide with the street protests
This story mentions the reason - “the basis of the attack appears to be the recent, and very public, pro-Tibet coverage [...]

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CNN enters the social

February 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Another effort that is now making the news. iReport.com will give us a more prominent outlet for all the submissions we already receive and hopefully encourage more to grow our audience.
Time Warner’s CNN this week will enter YouTube territory with the launch of iReport.com, a new Web site built entirely on user-produced news. And [...]

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Turner tips off with the NBA

February 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Something that has been in the works forever has finally been closed and announced.
Now we extend our portfolio with another top tier sports league and continue to operate one of the best collections of web properties anywhere.
As expected, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. will take over the operations of NBA TV and NBA.com as part of [...]

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