- Mon Jun 22 1998 Bertelsmann funds Web books
The VC arm of Bertlesmann AG invests in the Silicon Valley start-up, which is developing a hand-held device allowing users to read electronic books over the Web.
Posted by Jeff Pelline
- Thu Oct 8 1998 Bertelsmann charging online
The German media giant is aggressively extending its reach onto the Net, highlighted by two high-profile deals announced this week.
Posted by Corey Grice
- Thu Apr 19 2001 Bertelsmann buys CDNow for $3 a share
Posted by Larry Dignan
- Thu Jul 20 2000 Bertelsmann buys CDNow for $3 a share
Posted by Larry Dignan
- Tue Oct 6 1998 Bertelsmann takes Barnes stake
In a surprise move, barnesandnoble.com postpones its IPO and allows Bertelsmann to take a 50 percent stake in it instead.
Posted by Dawn Kawamoto and Corey Grice
- Wed Jul 5 2000 Bertelsmann Ventures sets sights on Net start-ups
The media giant's investment arm forms a new $250 million venture fund made up of commitments from several high-profile international investors.
Posted by Erich Luening
- Tue Nov 10 1998 Short Take: AOL Bertelsmann names CEO
America Online, the world's largest provider of Internet services, and German media giant Bertelsmann AG announced that they have named Andreas Schmidt to be the new president and CEO of AOL Bertelsmann Europe. The joint venture between AOL and Bertelsmann is the largest pan-European Internet online service provider with more than 2.2 million AOL and CompuServe members. Schmidt was most recently managing director of the magazine publisher "am Fleetrand."
Posted by Sandeep Junnarkar
- Fri May 19 2000 Bertelsmann to hand shopping site to start-up
The German media conglomerate will sell its comparison-shopping site to DealTime and form a European joint venture with the U.S.-based e-commerce service.
Posted by Stefanie Olsen
- Thu Oct 1 1998 Short Take: Bertelsmann sells 1 million AOL shares
German media giant Bertelsmann AG sold 1 million shares of America Online stock,
Bloomberg reported. The sale is not the first time Bertelsmann has unloaded AOL stock. In February Bertelsmann sold 900,000 shares of AOL stock, worth more than $114 million. The international publishing company now holds about 4.4 million shares in AOL. The two firms are involved in joint ventures in Europe and Australia.
Posted by Corey Grice
- Wed Jan 13 1999 Short Take: Bertelsmann, CMGI invest in OneList
@Ventures III, the venture capital division of CMGI, and Bertelsmann Ventures, has made a minority investment in email community service OneList. The service allows users to create or join topic-specific mass email listings. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Posted by Jim Hu
Ep. 942: Fill up on Confickerdoodles 
