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Roku is cracking open access to its Internet set-top device to third-party content providers—adding 10 partners to its “Channel Store” this week—as the company takes a page from Apple’s iPhone App Store. ...
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Terra Firma may have written off 90 percent of its investment in the label after Citigroup refused to ignore about half the debt it provided for the deal, but - slowly, slowly - EMI Group is turning a corner.
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Another big, albeit much more down to earth bet on the online book rental market from VCs. Online book rental service BookRenter is announcing it has brought in $6 million in a first round, less than a week after rival service Chegg ...
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Although the latest newspaper circ numbers showed continued declines, changes to the way the Audit Bureau of Circulations counts electronic subscribers have obscured just how many readers the industry is losing. For instance, until this ...
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No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media (NBM) but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkelstein’s News Communications, paidContent has learned from multiple sources. We have also learned ...
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AOL ( NYSE: TWX ) just released its new branding look—one consistent typography showing “Aol” with different “reveals” from various artists. The new identity fully debuts when AOL rings the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange Dec. 10. Images here; explanation ...
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— Atlantic Media : Former U.S. editor of Reuters.com Adam Pasick will be heading up the new digital media brand from The Atlantic publishing group, launching in “early 2010.” Along with being U.S. editor, Pasick was also the bureau chief of Reuters ( NYSE: TRI ) Second Life, ...
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The fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago this month taught me firsthand why revolution is simultaneously impossible as well as inevitable. In 1986, I sat with other students from around the globe just blocks from the wall and debated whether it would ever come down. The naïve among us insisted ...
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The next battle in the search wars could be over access to news content. The FT reports that Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT )—which has made increasing the market share of its Bing search engine its top online priority—has reached ...
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Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months after his social news startup Socialmedian was sold to the ...
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Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back—that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his tweets, snarky or not, are usually spot on. (He ...
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MySpace Music has now finalized a global licensing deal with the labels represented by Merlin , according to details tipped Friday to Digital Music News. Both companies confirmed the relationship, thanks to resolution on a major ...
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MySpace Music has now finalized a global licensing deal with the labels represented by Merlin , according to details tipped Friday to Digital Music News. Both companies confirmed the relationship, thanks to resolution on a major ...
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No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media (NBM) but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkelstein’s News Communications, paidContent has learned from multiple sources. We have also learned ...
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Sony keeps flip-flopping over adding music downloads to the PlayStation Network (PSN). After scrapping plans to add a music store to the gaming network—complete with the ability for gamers to port tracks to the handheld ...
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» Five ex-Googlers are putting working full time on what they hope will be the next big thing, Brizzly. [ LA Times ]
» Hoping to be the Canadian Pandora, Listen.fm buys up the remnants of Streamzy. [ ...
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Michael White, the PepsiCo vet who takes over as president and CEO of DirecTV ( NYSE: DTV ) Jan. 1, could make more than $35 million during his three-year contract, according to an SEC filing . His base salary is $1.5 million a year ...
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Sony and Barnes & Noble may be launching two of the most high-profile challengers to Amazon’s Kindle, but supply chain challenges could keep both companies from denting Kindle’s popularity this holiday season. (Then ...
