According to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report set for release Today, merger and acquisition activity should pick up in 2012 which could be fueled by online social networking companies going public and/or their willingness to be acquired by established media corporations.
After already paying $150 million to former shareholders of Harmonix, arbitrators have determined that Viacom owes an additional $383 million to the video game company that created Rock Band, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
More and more radio channels are switching their formats to all Christmas, all the time -- a consistent winner for radio even during the brutal 2008-2009 revenue downturn.
