Staci D. Kramer
May 4, 2010 8:29 PM
Maybe Ross Levinsohn had a worst-case scenario where nearly five years after the acquisition of MySpace for $580 million, top News Corp (NYSE: NWS). execs told analysts MySpace was a “work in progress” with a goal of being cash positive next year. Maybe, but if that was the case, I…
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Rafat Ali
Oct 20, 2009 10:34 AM
Yesterday we mentioned that BeJane, the home improvement social network based in Burbank, CA, was acquired by an unnamed buyer. Today we know the name: Austin, TX-based Builder Homesite, the national homebuilder listing company, with sites such as newhomesource.com. BHI was formed in 2000 as a consortium of 36 of…
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Staci D. Kramer
May 28, 2009 12:00 AM
Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) wasn’t enough. Big box retailer Best Buy, which bought the music service in September for $121 million, is launching a new media digital fund to invest in areas including music, video, games and personal media management. The fund, with Best Buy as the sole limited partner, will…
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Rafat Ali
Aug 15, 2008 12:49 PM
This is the number one question I get when people talk about Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn and their VC firm Velocity...now they are have cleared it up a bit with Richard Siklos of Fortune: “they insist Velocity is not just a parking spot until another big corporate job comes…
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Rafat Ali
Jun 30, 2008 6:28 PM
Among everything being thrown against the wall when it comes to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), another scenario being bandied about is Ross Levinsohn and Jon Miller jointly at the helm of Yahoo, according to sources Kara has spoken to. This and all other options are on the table as Yahoo gears…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Apr 29, 2008 7:17 PM
The final panel at EconSM was the deals panel, which ContentNext Editor and Publisher Rafat Ali described as the “flagship” panel. Economy and outlook for 2008: Geoff Yang, Redpoint Ventures: “There’s been a lot of money raised in the venture business, but there aren’t that many spaces that have a…
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Amanda Natividad
Mar 17, 2008 4:03 PM
In a keynote conversation on the fracturing content landscape and how to make money from it, Velocity Interactive Group’s general partner Ross Levinsohn and founding partner Jon Miller pointed to interactive media as the big monkeymaker. Facilitated by Jack Feuer, editorial director of UCLA Magazine and MediaX columnist for MediaPost,…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 17, 2008 12:00 AM
Broadband Enterprises, the online video advertising and distribution provider based in New York City, has received $10 million in funding from Velocity Interactive Group, the investment group including Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn. This is Velocity’s first announced investment in a company…it recently merged with ComVentures. Velocity partner Jon Miller…
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Staci D. Kramer
Dec 18, 2007 12:01 AM
Just four months after finally announcing their investment firm Velocity Investment Group, former FIM (NYSE: NWS) president Ross Levinsohn and former AOL (NYSE: TWX) chairman Jon Miller are merging with ComVentures to form Velocity Interactive Group. Call it the investment equivalent of marrying for love—and into money. ComVentures brings more…
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