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152005
- PAUL ALLEN / Front Cover Vol
49-POW61
102
Paul
Allen Sells His Cable Channel TechTV To
Comcast.
April 8, 2005 -
And how about Digeo? Is the dazzling
integrater of video on demand, digital video
recording and a TV guide incorporator, going to be
part of a deal? On
Thursday. They said it agreed to acquire cable
channel TechTV, owned by Paul Allen's Vulcan, and
merge it with its own G4 video game network.
• • The acquisition will enable
Comcast, the nation's largest cable network, to
expand its technology and gaming channel to 44
million cable and satellite homes. G4 CEO Charles
Hirschhorn will become head of the combined
company.
• • Financial terms of the deal
were not disclosed, but it
was speculated that it all started when Paul
Allen made his splash appearance at the annual
cable- industry convention last month. And not just
because the reclusive mogul arrived aboard the
world's largest privately owned yacht, Octopus, a
413-foot stunner Allen docked on the Mississippi
River.
More
Story • 102AllenTechtvComcast.htm
• • PAUL ALLEN
SELLS DreamWorks Shares
• •
Paul Allen, Vivendi and Lee Entertainment
will sell $500 million worth five months after IPO.
MORE
ABOUT SALE
102 News
print media distributors are Buying Websites
Firms
TVI Magazine, Tribune
Co., Gannett Co. and Knight Ridder Inc. all have
invested in start-up Internet news
services.
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102 Bill Gates Firm Buys Celebrity Legacy Agency
for Dead Stars
• •
Corbis, founded by Bill Gates, is buying
Roger Richman's firm as the use of late
celebrities' images in ads
grows.
• • The market for dead
celebrities is alive and
well.
• • Yes90 / April 7, 2005 / Just
ask Bill Gates. The billionaire's Corbis Corp., a
provider of archived news and advertising images,
agreed Wednesday to buy for an undisclosed amount
Roger Richman Agency Inc., a Beverly Hills company
that pioneered the licensing of dead celebrity
personas such as Steve McQueen, Sigmund Freud, the
Marx Brothers and Mae
West.
More
Story • 102billgatesfirmbuysadagen.htm
• •
Five Hi tech Companies Joins EU Microsoft
anti-monopoly Case
• •
Yes90 / April 7, 2005 / IBM Corp., Oracle
Corp., Red Hat Inc., RealNetworks Inc. and Nokia
have applied to intervene against Microsoft in its
court appeal of an EU ruling made last year, lawyer
Thomas Vinje said.
• • The Five leading technology
companies are supporting European Union regulators
in their antitrust battle with Microsoft Corp., a
lawyer for the group said
Wednesday.
• • Vinje said the companies'
stance countered Microsoft claims that the European
Commission's case was without industry support.
• • "The commission does not stand
naked," Vinje said. "It has solid support from the
information technology industry. The bottom line is
that we think the commission's position is
correct."
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Story • 102fivehitechfirmEUvsMS.htm
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102 VOIP Service Offered By AOL
• •
Yes90 / April 7, 2005 / America Online Inc.,
the world's largest Internet service provider,
plans to unveil its Internet-based phone service in
markets nationwide today.
• • AOL's entry into the voice
over Internet protocol, or VOIP, market comes a day
after Verizon Communications Inc., the nation's
largest local phone company, added a bargain plan
and enhanced services to the Internet-based phone
service it unveiled last summer.
• •and;
• •
102
Freelance Writers Paid Firms Settle Suit Filed by
Freelance Writers
• •
March 30, 2005 / Agroup of companies that
operate electronic databases have agreed to pay
freelance writers as much as $18 million to settle
copyright infringement claims brought under a
class-action lawsuit. The settlement covers claims
brought against the companies by..
More
Story • 102freelancewriterspaid.htm
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102 Shareholders Vote on MCI stock sale to
Verizon
• •
Yes90 / April 7, 2005 / The protracted
battle for MCI Inc. may now be decided by
shareholders.
• • The long-distance carrier said
Wednesday that it rejected Qwest Communications
International Inc.'s bid of $8.9 billion, or $27.50
a share, saying it wasn't "superior" to the $7.5
billion, or $23.10 a share, offered by Verizon
Communications Inc.
• • The decision by MCI's board of
directors was the latest rebuff of Qwest in the two
months since the board agreed to be acquired by
Verizon, the nation's largest phone company.
More
Story • 102MCIStockToVerizonorQuest.htm
• •
102 PUC Nominee Poizner Fails To Qualify For State
Job
• •
Yes90 / April 7, 2005 / Schwarzenegger's
naming of Poizner to the $114,191-a-year job
originally was greeted enthusiastically by business
groups and environmentalists, who said they liked
Poizner's openness and lack of ideological
baggage.•
• But much as he wanted to serve,
Poizner said he couldn't figure out a way to
satisfy lawyers at California's watchdog agency,
the Fair Political Practices Commission, that would
allow him to vote on decisions affecting the
telecommunications companies -- numbering at least
100 -- with ties to his portfolio.
More
Story • 102PCUpoiznerSaysNo.htm
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#105 PAUL ALLEN SELLS some of its Dream Works
Stock
• •
Paul Allen, Vivendi and Lee Entertainment
will sell $500 million worth five months after
IPO
• •
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., creator of
the "Shrek" films, said shareholders including
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen planned to
sell $500 million of stock five months after the
company issued stock to the public.
•More
Story • a105paulallensellsDreamworks.htm
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#108
Pre-1972 Royalties on Recordings Protected, says
Judge in N.Y. High
Court
• •
Yes90 - April 6, 2005 / New York's highest
court ruled Tuesday that common law protects a
record company's copyright on recordings made
before 1972 -- a decision that could have
industrywide ramifications for everything from Bach
to the Beatles. That lawsuit
involved..
• • New York's highest court ruled
Tuesday that common law protects a record company's
copyright on recordings made before 1972 -- a
decision that could have industrywide ramifications
for everything from Bach to the Beatles.
• • That lawsuit involved
Franklin, Tenn.-based Naxos of America Inc., which
restored and marketed 1930s classical records made
in England by another company, the Gramaphone Co.,
after the 50-year British copyright had expired.
• • Hollywood-based Capitol
Records Inc., which currently holds the rights to
those recordings, sued.
• • A federal court dismissed
Capitol's suit, saying federal copyright law
protected only recordings since 1972, and Capitol
had no common-law protections under New York state
law.
More
Story • 108copyrightsproyatiesWin.htm
108 Title
Insurerance Scams & Overcharges to Be Probed by
Government
• •
Executives of the industry are grilled about
their 'captive reinsurance' programs during a
hearing in L.A.
• • April 5, 2005 / 5tate
Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi on Monday
widened his investigation of the title insurance
industry to include whether companies were
overcharging for
policies.
• • During a daylong hearing in
downtown Los Angeles, Garamendi grilled top title
insurance industry executives about the practice of
sharing customer premiums with home builders, real
estate brokers and other
partners.
• • The title industry calls the
premium-sharing arrangements "captive reinsurance"
programs in which they also share half the risk of
future insurance losses with their partners.
Garamendi, however, contends the arrangements are
fronts for illegal kickback schemes in which the
partners are given the premium money in exchange
for steering business to the
insurers.
More
Story • 108TitlePolicyFraudScams.htm
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