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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The Hulu nation is growing -- and fast.
Fueled by the fall TV season and the addition of ABC shows to its library, traffic to the video site backed by NBC, ABC and Fox spiked nearly 47% in October from the prior month, the biggest single-month percentage gain of the ...
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The magazine publisher is folding In Style's wedding spinoff, a source confirms.
The quarterly title will cease with the publication of the winter issue, on sale from Dec. 25 through March 25. Around nine staffers are losing their jobs in the process, the source says.
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The WSJ reports, "Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure, but says it has no current plans for an initial public offering."
Startups sometimes take this step before an IPO. In those instances, the idea is to create one class of "super-voting shares" for the company to own, and one ...
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Departed Facebook cofounder Dustin Moscovitz's startup Asana just raised $9 million from investors Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz.
Asana will someday make an enterprise collaboration product.
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Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz is starting a new startup called Asana to solve enterprise collaboration, and he just closed a $9 million series A round from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz. This follows $1.2 million angel round last spring from investors including Ron Conway, ...
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Google is experimenting with the AdSense platform by expanding the role of the traditional text link and short description.
AdSense boxes on Google search results pages now display a wealth of information to Internet users in the US.
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AOL is hiring -- for its Patch network of local news sites.
Last Friday, Patch's president Warren Webster was at an NYU Journalism event along with Darien Patch editor Cecilia Smith.
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Google (GOOG) today announced it named former American Express exec Lexi Reese its US director of sales for the DoubleClick ad exchange.
Google launched the exchange earlier this year, but industry sources say its not expected to hit its stride till the first half of next year.
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Swype could completely change the way we type on touchscreen smartphones -- and potentially pose a real challenge to the iPhone.
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"Good Morning America" will not be hosting a performance by Adam Lambert tomorrow, an ABC News spokesperson confirms.
The openly gay, freakishly talented singer -- who placed second in this year's "American Idol" finale -- has drawn complaints for his overtly sexual performance at Sunday's ...
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Amazon announced today two big upgrades to its 6 inch Kindle. The battery life is 85% longer and it has native PDF support.
While the native PDF support is supposed to help business users reading documents on their Kindles, it also opens the door to e-book piracy.
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CEO Carol Bartz wants Yahoo to be "your home on the Web."
To us, that means Yahoo is a portal.
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Is there no end to this all-media bloodbath?
Time Inc. is rolling out another round of layoffs today, right before the holiday season.
Dawn Bridges, spokeswoman for the magazine publisher, confirmed the cuts to The Business Insider, saying, "Yes, there are some layoffs across a number of ...
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News Corp. has company in its battle against Google.
A.H. Belo and MediaNews are saying they might pull their content from Google News, Bloomberg reports .
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Some clarification: Yahoo isn't shutting down Right Media's international ad exchange, but it is "regionalizing" its management structure.
As a part of the re-org, Yahoo offered the six people who run the thing from New York new gigs within the company.
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The Daily Beast has a new president: Steve Colvin, former CEO for the U.S. arm of Dennis Publishing, The New York Post's Keith Kelly reports.
Colvin, who oversaw Maxim, Blender and Stuff while at Dennis, will report to Brown at the editor's buzzy website. His duties include "revenue ...
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AOL Web designers in Dulles should not expect to have jobs by the end of Q1 2010, several sources tells us.
Dulles's design team supports AOL News, Sports, Money, Health and Living. Thirty to 40 people work under SVP Marty Moe's media operation in Dulles, but only 10 to 12 of them are in ...
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Fox must be feeling pretty "Glee"-ful about its new high school dramedy. Because "Glee," created by Ryan Murphy, is grabbing the highest percentage of upscale viewers among all four broadcast networks, observes TV By The Numbers.
In ratings lingo, "upscale" means viewers aged between 18-49 ...
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The Adconion Media Group today announced that it has acquired Joost -- or at least Joost's assets. In 2007, Joost was supposed to be the future of TV on the Web.
The company, started by the Skype founders, raised a ton of cash but never gained traction with consumers, probably because it ...
