For the Wall Street Journal, Merissa Marr and Christopher S. Stewart go inside their boss's decision to split up News Corp.: Rupert Murdoch long resisted any suggestion — be it from bankers or executives within News Corp. — that the media conglomerate spin off the company's newspaper assets, which had become a drag on the stock.
A former Young Conservative, hedge fund manager and organiser of acid house raves, Staines runs his website with Harry Cole and Alex Wickham, spawning a media spin-off.
He was commissioner when the sale of digital media spin-off of MLB Advanced Media, BAMTech was completed with the Walt Disney Co.
[A1.] Liberty to Spin Off a Unit Liberty Media said it would spin off its overseas cable operations into a separate publicly traded company.
B6 BUSINESS DAY C1-10 Privatizing Cablevision The Dolans, one of New York's most powerful families, moved to buy out the public shareholders of their media empire, Cablevision Systems, and spin off its prized entertainment assets, which include Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall.
On the other hand, the adhesion properties of the media have minor effects on TA reduction, as the particles that usually generate TA in a drive are too small to spin off the media.
Brazil's largest media conglomerate, Organizacoes Globo, plans to spin off its Internet unit and sell shares in the company, Globo.com, in the United States.
[A1.] Cablevision Delays Plan for Spinoff Shares of Cablevision Systems rose 13percentt after the cable television provider suspended plans to spin off its media group, Rainbow Media Enterprises.
The merger discussions were indicative of a boom that is altering Madison Avenue as more agencies spin off their media services functions into stand-alone units like Televest; Starcom; the Media Edge, part of Young & Rubicam Inc., and Mediacom Worldwide, owned by Grey Advertising.
Silicon Graphics also fell after the company unveiled its second restructuring in less than a year, with plans to spin off its media operations, shed about 1,500 jobs and form an alliance with the Japanese company NEC Corp. Internet stocks managed to halt a precipitous fall in early trading.
