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Best Buy, TiVo align in crowded digital space (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Best Buy Co. (NYSE:BBY) and TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ:TIVO) have created a technology alliance that will allow both companies to cross-promote products and services. A few highlights of the far-reaching partnership include:Prominent placement of TiVo DVRs in Best Buy storesPossible development of a user interface for TiVo DVRs that will allow...

Posted on July 9, 2009 3:36 PM

Dealmaking when the core business is a melting ice cube (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Dial-up Internet access. Retail movie rentals. Yellow Pages directories. These are all businesses with a big customer base but a limited prognosis. What to do? For Rolla Hoff, the CEO working to turn around Internet service provider EarthLink Inc., the answer is to consolidate the Internet dial-up market and acquire...

Posted on July 31, 2008 11:15 AM

Blockbuster to join pay-TV dance? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Blockbuster Inc. may be the mystery partner to film studios who plan to launch a pay-TV network, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, though a spokeswoman would neither confirm nor deny the report outright. "We are very busy transforming Blockbuster into a multiplatform provider of convenient access...

Posted on April 29, 2008 12:47 PM

Icahn, Blockbuster and imperial CEO pratfalls (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Blockbuster's Icahn-endorsed bid for Circuit City smacks of the top-down approach to dealmaking that has failed so often in the past.

Posted on April 15, 2008 8:42 AM