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Atari, Glu Mobile, Parsons School of Design Host 2nd "Mobile Game Mosh"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 24, 2006 - 10:59am.
New York - Atari and mobile game publisher Glu Mobile said on Friday that they have once again teamed with the Parsons The New School for Design for the second annual "Mobile Game Mosh," a 24-hour game design contest. Teams of students from New York-area schools including NYU, Columbia, Renssaeler Polytechnic and Brooklyn Polytechnic will compete to design the best multiplayer mobile game, with the winning game to be considered for publication by Atari and Glu Mobile.
tags: Games | Atari | Glu Mobile | Mobile Game Mosh | Parsons | Parsons School of Design | Host |

Parsons: Sale of Stake in AOL to Google, Comcast is "Market Rumor"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 14, 2005 - 4:03am.
Mountain View, Calif. - Richard Parsons, the CEO of media giant Time Warner, said that reports about his company's possible sale of a stake in its America Online unit are nothing more than a "market rumor," Reuters reported on Friday. Parsons brushed aside news reports that had his company selling a minority stake in AOL to Google and Comcast, and also said there were no plans for an Internet deal with Microsoft, another hot rumor in recent weeks. "It's market rumors, and I can't curb market rumors," Parsons said at a luncheon in Hong Kong on Thursday, declining further comment. Reuters said that two different sources had confirmed its story about a possible deal with Comcast and Google worth up to $5 billion. Meanwhile, various outlets reported on Friday that Yahoo is also considering buying a stake in AOL, although a person close to the talks told the Associated Press that Yahoo's negotiations with Time Warner are not as advanced as those being held with AOL's other purported suitors.
tags: AOL | Comcast | Google | Parsons | Market Rumor |

Parsons: AOL Would Compete with Yahoo, Google in Portal Space

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 21, 2005 - 9:00am.
Dulles, Va. -- Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons on Wednesday sidestepped questions about the potential sale of its America Online unit, instead telling an audience of investors that turning around the company's struggling Internet arm is the key to increasing shareholder value. While Parsons admitted that Time Warner has entertained the notion of spinning off AOL, he downplayed the possibility and called AOL the company's "No. 1 point of focus" because of its strong growth potential, Dow Jones Newswires reported. Parsons declined to discuss reports that software giant Microsoft is in talks to buy a major stake in AOL. Parsons said that plans for AOL include transforming it from an ISP into a major web portal that would compete against the likes of Google and Yahoo.
tags: Yahoo | AOL | Google | Parsons | Compete | Portal Space |