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Is YouTube Finally Ready to Turn a Profit This Year?
Starting last summer, Google executives have consistently promised that YouTube was close to becoming profitable. When will that finally happen? This year, says Barclays analyst Douglas Anmuth. He...
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BoomTown Heads to Sundance Film Festival in the Fifth Annual Meet-the-Geeks...
Today, BoomTown is loading the wife and kids, along with mom, into our tricked-out All Things Digital Winnebago and heading to Park City, Utah, for the 26th Sundance Film Festival. Now, what I know...
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On Friday, BoomTown was back at the Sundance Film Festival for the fifth time for my annual techie panel at the famous independent film confab. This year, we opened the New Frontier on Main series with...
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YouTube and Viacom Find Lots of Emails, but No Smoking Gun
The YouTube-Viacom documents released today are chock full of interesting morsels. Feel free to ignore most of them. Because if you’re trying to handicap the way the copyright lawsuit pans out, today’s...
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Top AOL Media Exec Marty Moe To Depart (Other Rumors of David Eun Ankling Not...
According to sources close to the situation, one of AOL’s top, longtime media execs, Marty Moe (pictured here), is leaving the company. Sources said the reasons were personal and Moe was not currently...
View ArticleYou've Got Mail, Mike Arrington: AOL Buys TechCrunch
And now it’s official. The details we really want–how much–aren’t out yet, but I’m betting they’ll show up soon. Meantime, here’s the press release: AOL TO ACQUIRE TECHCRUNCH NETWORK OF SITES Leading...
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In Yet Another Content Hook-Up, AOL Strikes Deal With Endemol
AOL’s strategy to partner with third-party content creators for original programming–especially premium video content–keeps ticking, with another partnership, this time with Endemol USA. The New...
View ArticleViral Video: AOL Media Head David Eun Gets Jiggy in Internal All-Hands Video
While he has been striking a lot of content deals of late for AOL, there seems to have been enough time in his day of trying to turn around the struggling Web giant for Media and Studios President...
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Post-Huffpo, an AOL Reorg; Here's the Internal Memo
No surprise here: After paying $315 million for Huffington Post, AOL is shuffling its executive ranks. David Eun, the former Google executive who came to AOL a year ago to run its media business, is...
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With David Eun Departure, "The AOL Way" Makes Way for the Arianna Way
[UPDATE: This post has been updated in brackets, including clarifications and one important correction, in several places below.] Despite all the polite throat-clearing in the various internal memos...
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Samsung Hires Former AOL and Google Content Exec David Eun to Lead Renewed...
South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics has hired former AOL and Google exec David Eun to lead a new push to create more media offerings, the company said. In a press release, the...
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Valley Cred: Samsung Plans to Open New Start-Up Accelerator in Downtown Palo...
While it is one of the largest consumer electronics and mobile companies in the world, Korea’s Samsung has a relatively quiet profile in Silicon Valley. In fact, while it has had a longtime facility...
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The Hardware Guys Meet the Content Guys: Intel's Huggers, Samsung's Eun...
At our D: Dive into Media conference in February, we’ll be talking to people who make amazing content, the people who make a living selling amazing content and the people who help distribute all of...
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Netflix Content Boss Ted Sarandos Comes to D: Dive Into Media, With a Mystery...
Netflix started out as a DVD-by-mail service, then morphed into a streaming service for movies, and then a streaming service for TV shows. Now it’s a bit of everything: Old and not-so-old TV shows,...
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Old Media, New Tricks: The New Republic's Chris Hughes and USA Today's Larry...
How do you take a print publication with a famous name and a fraught business outlook, and transform it for the digital age? Ask Chris Hughes and Larry Kramer. Hughes, one of the original Facebook...
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Meet the Man Who Wants to Blow Up the TV Business: Dish Network's Charlie...
Charlie Ergen brings TV into 14 million houses, which means he’s got a very nice business that has made him a billionaire. But while lots of pay-TV operators are happy to keep things the way they are,...
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Game On! Xbox Bosses Mehdi, Tellem Come to Dive Into Media.
You can spend lots of time speculating about what happens when the TV and the Web finally converge. But if you want to speed things up, just ask Microsoft, which is already watching it happen. Redmond...
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Setting Up Shop in the Valley and NYC, Samsung Aims to Boost Its Software Side
Over the past year, Samsung’s quiet Silicon Valley presence has grown from a whisper to a shout, as the consumer electronics behemoth turns the home turf of rivals like Apple and Google into a...
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I think the outside world is more obsessed with our relationship with Apple than we actually are. – Samsung Executive Vice President David Eun, in conversation at D: Dive Into Media
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David Eun Explains Samsung's Silicon Valley Invasion
David Eun once led Google and YouTube’s partnerships with media companies, turning their sometimes adversarial relationships into licensing deals. These days, he’s doing something similar, but from the...
View ArticleDay One at D: Dive Into Media 2013, in Pictures and Tweets
Greetings from Dana Point, Calif., where D: Dive Into Media 2013 is in full swing. We’ve been tweeting, Facebooking, Instagramming and Vining, and so have our wonderful attendees. Here’s what we (and...
View ArticleSamsung Wants to Be a Media Giant. Meet the Guy in Charge of Getting Them There.
Apple used media — first music, then lots of other stuff — to help build its giant hardware business. Samsung already has a giant hardware business, and now David Eun is trying to help it with the...
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Plane Crash in San Francisco in Real Time, Via Samsung Exec David Eun on Board
Earlier today, an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 coming from Seoul crash-landed at San Francisco’s international airport. Immediately, tweets and also photographs from the scene started popping up on...
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Samsung's David Eun Talks About New Silicon Valley Accelerator (Video)
Last week, I attended an event Samsung had in Silicon Valley to celebrate the opening of its new startup accelerator in Silicon Valley. One of the largest consumer electronics and mobile companies in...
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