The Comcast Nightly News with Brian Williams?

Interesting article from today’s NY Times Business section
December 7, 2009
NBC-Comcast Deal Puts Broadcast TV in Doubt
By BRIAN STELTER
From Studio 6B at 30 Rockefeller Center, NBC brought Milton Berle, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson into the nation’s living rooms, then broadcast local news to New York City for decades. Last Thursday, it was a stage for [...]

Dorthy.com: A (Semantic) Search Engine for Dreams

As many of you know, I have been a fan and an advisor to the folks at SaberSeven, the folks who developed Dorthy.com for almost a year. Congratulations to Jordan English Gross and his team on some exciting news including the announcement of a $4MM round of funding.
Saber Seven Secures $4 Million for Dorthy.com, Hires [...]

B2BVid: Video Social Network Strictly for Business

I want to send a special shout-out to Marvin Bzura, a “digital entrepreneur” who runs a unique company called “B2BVid” and was kind enough to tape and stream the LIEG event last week.
For your information, www.B2BVid.com is the first online video social network that’s strictly for business. We will shoot & produce your video for [...]

My Info Center for the Economic Crisis

In case you are interested, I just spent the past few days in Albany…doing my “once a semester” teaching thing in Prof. Martin Fogelman’s class “ Behavioral Foundations of Management” among other things.
Since I drive up and down I find the radio becomes my  best friend and while I usually listen to NPR (WAMC or [...]

Job Opportunity at Channel M

I recently met with my friend, one of the newest members of the FOBS family, Kylie Sachs, a partner in the investment firm Ascend Ventures Group here in NYC, with a strong understanding of the media industry. As you will read below Ascend recently invested in Channel M, one of the biggest players in the [...]

The World’s Most Innovative Companies

The Worlds Most Innovative Companies according to BusinessWeek
Do you agree?
-Bill
Rank Company
1 Apple
2 Google
3 Toyota Motors
4 General Electric
5 Microsoft

Great News From BlogTalkRadio

As many of you know, one of the turning points of our NY:MIEG breakfasts was our event in January 2007 when John Havens produced and moderated an event entitled ” Understanding the New Media: How podcasting and online/mobile media and new distribution platforms can transform your business”
It was a breakthrough event for us as it [...]

Zucker: GE Selling NBC, Not!

Jeff Zucker, the bottom of the media moguls (based alphabetically of course) spoke this week about all the rumors that GE is considering spinning off or selling NBC Universal.
-Bill
The Jeff Squad

Zucker: NBC Universal is an ‘important’ part of GE
7/11/2008, 2:38 a.m. EDT
By JEREMY HERRON
The Associated Press
SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) — General Electric has no [...]

What is the CitizenM Hotel in Amsterdam really like?

Howard Greenstein & Yours Truly at the entrance of the
CitizenM Hotel at Schipohl Airport in Amsterdam
 
 
Since returning to New York a week ago I have been telling everyone about the CitizenM Hotel I stayed in at Schipohl Airport in Amsterdam. However describing it is a problem. Thanks to Howard Greenstein, the internet, and Stuart Miles [...]

What’s the Weather going to be? Ask NBC Universal

Hot off the press…and a very good fit!
-Bill

NBC Universal agrees to buy The Weather Channel

July 6, 2008
 
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC Universal says it has reached a deal to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
NBC already operates a cable and broadcast weather service called NBC Weather Plus that would [...]

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