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By: Current TV Staff Suffer A “Major Bloodbath” As 80 Employees Lose Their Jobs

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:37:41 +0000

[...] leaving Current with a little over 400 employees. The media company also recently canceled its $100 million IPO that was originally announced in January 2008. Current said in a statement that market conditions [...]

By: Lost Guy

Lost Guy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:56:46 +0000

this is funny because if they truly believed in their business idea they would charge forward instead they are in it for a short term profit

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ppc keyword research — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:45:02 +0000

wonder if the canceling had anything to do with the SarbanesOxley Act?

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Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:12:06 +0000

[...] Currently In Trouble: After Pulling Its IPO, Current TV Loses CTO (Techcrunch): Current Media, the peer-to-peer news and information company famously co-founded by former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore , appears to be facing stormy weather lately. After two of its reporters were detained by North Korea in a relatively high-profile incident last month, the startup got criticized (whether justified or not) for remaining deafeningly silent over the matter even when it became clear the arrested journalists were not going to get off easily. Only last Friday we reported that the state of the economy forced Current Media – often referred to as Current TV – to pull its $100 million IPO. [...]

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Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:44:25 +0000

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Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:24:27 +0000

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By: infoyourway.com » Currently In Trouble: After Pulling Its IPO, Current TV Loses CTO

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:27:06 +0000

[...] After two of its reporters were detained by North Korea in a relatively high-profile incident last month, the startup got criticized (whether justified or not) for remaining deafeningly silent over the matter even when it became clear the arrested journalists were not going to get off easily. Only last Friday we reported that the state of the economy forced Current Media – often referred to as Current TV – to pull its $100 million IPO. [...]

By: Trade Jim News » Currently In Trouble: After Pulling Its IPO, Current TV Loses CTO

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:02:59 +0000

By: Currently In Trouble: After Pulling Its IPO, Current TV Loses CTO

Currently In Trouble: After Pulling Its IPO, Current TV Loses CTO — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:46:39 +0000

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:24:40 +0000

If by ’success’ the mean colossal failure, then yes, their social media efforts during the election was a HUGE success!

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techfile 13.04.09 @Special News Bureau — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:33:16 +0000

[...] Media, the television and media company founded by former Vice President Al Gore, cancelled plans for a $100m initial public offering. Current said the economy was to blame, and that despite suffering a round of layoffs in November, [...]

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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:53:28 +0000

[...] And another IPO gets canceled – Meanwhile, Current Media, operator or Current TV cable channel, has canceled its long-postponed IPO. This means that chairman Al Gore will have to wait for his post-Nobel Prize payday. TechCrunch has more. [...]

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Trade Jim News » techfile 13.04.09 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:09:34 +0000

[...] Media, the television and media company founded by former Vice President Al Gore, cancelled plans for a 0m initial public offering. Current said the economy was to blame, and that despite suffering a round of layoffs in November, [...]

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FT.com | Tech Blog | techfile 13.04.09 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:05:17 +0000

By: whoopies

whoopies — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:31:25 +0000

ipo? this thing won’t even be here in two years. media and online is ten times oversaturated people. pick another career path.

By: josh davs

josh davs — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:48:32 +0000

Anything Al Gore touches will be a fraud. Fits in with his so-called human caused global warming. Please.

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By: Caty

Caty — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:45:31 +0000

The tv shows werent very entertaining, oops, spoke about them in the past tense there.

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Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:28:34 +0000

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By: harshit

harshit — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:09:53 +0000

i completely agree peter urban dis aint d right tym…

By: fb540582587

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:05:42 +0000

not prudent, either, with 2 of their reporters locked up in N. Korea, eh?

By: D

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:18:56 +0000

A site that gets less traffic than 1.5M visitors per month (non-unique) and little in site revenue combined with a cable station that hardly gets watched just isn’t worth a $100M IPO.

They seem to have a lot of hand-waving and that’s about it. The concept is interesting but the numbers just don’t add up–especially given their burn.

Further complicate that with a tech team that is headed by idiots and an executive team that didn’t even bother to give options to employees means they have little allegiance from the smartest and brightest core.

Good luck. Nice idea. Poor execution, and god-awful management.

By: DaTruff

DaTruff — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:24:47 +0000

So, Current WOULD be moving forward with their ipo IF market conditions were more favorable? I find that hard to believe. They would have been forced to pull this IPO regardless of market conditions unless they could pack the whole company into the Way Back Machine and set the dial for the dotcom boom…

By: Peter Urban

Peter Urban — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:57:26 +0000

IPO’s are abut the right move at the right time. Now it’s not the right time. Smart move to not make the move right now.

Do- they need capital to exist or to expand – or just to enjoy it because they can?

By: Current TV cancels IPO « Raja Jasti’s Blog - Renaissance Thinking

Current TV cancels IPO « Raja Jasti’s Blog - Renaissance Thinking — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:11:36 +0000

[...] media venture, was planning an IPO. But appatently they did and have come to their senses and cancelled their IPO [...]