Roundup: Icahn’s board selections, YouTube live streaming plan nixed and more
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Icahn haz board members? – Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is already on Yahoo’s board, but now he needs to fill the two complimentary seats given to him by Yahoo. Edward Meyer and Frank Biondi are the two front runners in AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher’s mind, but it could be her wild card, John Chapple, who gets to sit next to Biondi, according to The Wall Street Journal. They all kind of look the… Continue Reading
As online movie competitors rise, Vongo falls
Online movie distribution is becoming a crowded field. So crowded that casualties are already popping up.
You’ve most likely heard of the big names with online movie offerings: Amazon, Netflix and Apple. But perhaps you hadn’t heard of Vongo, a service run by the premium movie channel Starz, which launched late last year. That was part of its problem. Vongo is now all but dead.
The service won’t be officially killed off but Starz will stop promoting… Continue Reading