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Celebrate Express shareholders approve sale to Liberty Media (Seattle Times)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:25:01 GMT

Liberty Media plans to combine Celebrate with its BuySeasons.com unit, which sells Halloween costumes.

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Celebrate Express sale nearly a wrap (Seattle Times)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:34:59 GMT

Liberty Media's purchase of Kirkland-based Celebrate Express is expected to become final after a majority of shareholders approved the deal...

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For God's Sake, Journalism (First Draft)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:13:25 GMT

Nobody's paying for content! Why, you ask, would a program at the Democratic Party Convention include someone who is a big McCain contributor? Welll.... it turns out that he is president of Liberty Media, which owns Starz, which is a...

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Media Panel With Digby and Arianna (MyDD)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:46:19 GMT

Arianna Huffington is moderating a panel on old vs. new media featuring Digby, Chris Cilizza, Jonathan Alter, and Greg Maffei (CEO of Liberty Media.) It's part of the Starz Green Room here in Denver, just up the street from The Pepsi Center. The panel is streaming live HERE . Update [2008-8-25 14:17:9 by Todd Beeton]: Arianna is driving the conversation to explore a really important question:...

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Beacon Equity Issues Trade Alerts on Mail Order/Catalog Stocks: ENAB, LINTA, FOUR, AMZN, EBAY, NSIT (EmailWire.Com)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT

(EMAILWIRE.COM, August 25, 2008 ) DALLAS, Texas - Today's Trade Alerts include: Enable Holdings Inc. (ENAB), Liberty Media Interactive (LINTA), 4C Controls Inc. (FOUR), Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), eBay Inc. (EBAY), and Insight Enterprises Inc. (NSIT). Enable Holdings Inc. (ENAB) shares climbed...

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Zacks Sell List Highlights: Wilmington Trust Corp, American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc, Liberty Media Corp, Ness Technologies Inc. (Business Wire)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:55:00 GMT

Zacks Sell List Highlights: Wilmington Trust Corp, American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc, Liberty Media Corp, Ness Technologies Inc. CHICAGO--()--Zacks.com releases details on a group of stocks that are currently members of the exclusive Zacks #5 Rank List – Stocks to Sell Now. These stocks are currently rated as a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell): Wilmington Trust Corp (NYSE: WL) and American...

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Seth Klarman, Meryl Witmer and Marty Whitman - Q2 2008 Portfolio Moves (Seeking Alpha)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:34:08 GMT

Davy Bui submits: Seth Klarman’s Baupost Group continues its move into the healthcare sector as evidenced by the latest Q2 13F-HR filing : Baupost opened big positions in UnitedHealth Group (UNH) and Liberty Media. The UNH position complements last quarter’s WLP position, which was augmented 24% in Q2. Additionally, by my numbers, they staked a huge position in PDL Biopharma (PDLI), with over...

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Evan Malone joins Liberty Media board (The Denver Business Journal)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:36:09 GMT

Liberty Media Corp. said Wednesday evening it has expanded the size of its board to add a ninth member: Evan Malone, the son of company founder John Malone.

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Starz Ending Vongo Movie Service for Starz Play (Sci-Tech Today)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:20:16 GMT

Liberty Media Corp.'s Starz pay TV subsidiary is pulling the plug on its Vongo movie-download service in favor of letting Verizon Communications Inc. and other affiliates market a similar service. Starz said Tuesday it notified visitors to Vongo's Web site that it was no longer accepting new subscribers as of Aug. 1 and that the Vongo service will cease after Sept. 30. It directed users to sign...

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AOL-Time Warner: The Best Deal Ever (Voices - All Things Digital)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:00:07 GMT

By Jeff Segal, Reporter, BreakingViews.com Former AOL boss Steve Case virtually fled to his Hawaiian pineapple farm after the AOL-Time Warner merger he engineered in 2000 vaporised much of the group’s combined market value. Now that Liberty Media chairman John Malone is open to swapping his 2.8% stake in Time Warner for AOL’s dial-up business, the [...]

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Download service Vongo closing (MaldivianDigital® :: Forum)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:51:48 GMT

It was a snappy name, but Vongo never quite hit the spot with movie or broadband fans. Owned by Liberty Media subsidiary Starz, Vongo will shut on Sept 30. Vongo was also a good idea in that it...

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Liberty Media board OKs repurchase of stock. (Denver Post)

editor@denverpost.com (The Denver Post) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:34:16 GMT

Liberty Media Corp., controlled by John Malone, said its board authorized the repurchase of as much as $300 million of its Liberty Capital common stock.

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Starz Shutting Down Vongo, Concentrating on Wholesale (Red Orbit )

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:00:08 GMT

By Jeff Smith Liberty Media's Starz Entertainment will shut down its Vongo consumer video-downloading service on Sept. 30, and focus solely on a wholesale version called Starz Play.

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Useful Networks Buys Mobile Games Firm KnowledgeWhere (Digital Media Wire)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:32:17 GMT

Denver - Useful Networks, a unit of Liberty Media (NASD: LINTA) that develops location-based services for mobile phones, announced on Wednesday its acquisition of Canada-based KnowledgeWhere, a developer of location-aware mobile games, advertising and developer-enablement programs. read more

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New Zoombak Universal A-GPS Locator Goes National with Pep Boys (Business Wire)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:47:00 GMT

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zoombak (www.zoombak.com), a Liberty Media (NASDAQ: LCAPA) company, today announced that it will be shipping

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Useful Networks Acquires KnowledgeWhere For Location-Based Games And Ads (Moco News)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:56:34 GMT

Useful Networks , the Liberty Media-owned provider of location-based services, has acquired Calgary-based KnowledgeWhere , a developer of location-based games and advertising. Terms of the acquisition were not announced. In the announcement Useful Networks didn't offer any specifics on post-acquisition plans, except that the KnowledgeWhere services made sense as part of the company's overall...

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Liberty Media Interested in AOL Dial-Up Business - Washington Post (business | serious-news.com)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:06:43 GMT

Canada.com Liberty Media Interested in AOL Dial-Up BusinessWashington Post, United States - 3 hours agoLast week, Time Warner said that it had completed a six-month-long process to separate AOL's access business from its advertising and content business. …AOL’s dial-up business: Is there a (minor) bidding war brewing? ZDNetWSJ: Liberty Open to Deal for AOL Dial-Up Business Digital Media [...]...

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Liberty Media Interested in AOL Dial-Up Business (Washington Post)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Just days after Time Warner said it had cleaved off AOL's dial-up Web access division and was in a position to sell it, another big media company has expressed interest in a deal.

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Starz ending Vongo movie service for Starz Play (San Fransisco Chronicle)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:28:38 GMT

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AOL Dial-Up May Be Worth More Than Thought (Seeking Alpha)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:51:06 GMT

Larry Dignan ( ZDNet ) submits: AOL’s dial-up business may be worth a little more than expected–especially if Liberty Media and EarthLink get into a bidding skirmish for Time Warner’s most unloved asset. Let’s be clear: AOL’s dial-up business is dying, but it still throws off cash and still has 8.1 million subscribers. For a company like EarthLink, AOL’s dial-up business would make sense. But...

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