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Ricky Van Veen Dishes On Notional, Silverman and Wintour's Daughter
11/25/09
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Ricky Van Veen is branching out from CollegeHumor -- but not entirely.
The co-founder and former editor of the online comedy hotspot recently became CEO of Notional, a new multimedia production company backed by Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp. (Diller owns Connected Ventures, parent company of Colleg...
Italian Prosecutors Want To Throw Google Execs In Jail
11/25/09
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Prosecutors in Milan are asking for one-year jail sentences for two Google execs and its former CFO should they be found guilty of defamation and privacy violations, reports Bloomberg. The charges stem from a 2006 cellphone video Google hosted that showed a disabled teenager being taunted by bulli......
Comcast-NBC Isn't Perfect, But At This Point No Deal Would Be Worse
11/25/09
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When Comcast and NBC Universal employees bow their heads this Thanksgiving, they may want to say an extra prayer that the deal to combine their companies goes through. At this point, the only thing riskier than a multibillion-dollar deal would be if that deal fell through.
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Amazon's Competition Will Help It Grow Revenues
11/25/09
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Amazon's sales will surge as attacks from Wal-Mart, Sony, and Barnes & Noble help raise the company's profile, says Goldman analyst James Mitchell in a note.
His reasons:
Sony and Barnes & Noble don't have e-readers in stock. Both companies will heavily promote their e-readers, which are sol...
Android And Palm Need Their Own iPod Touch, Fast
11/25/09
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Apple's iPod touch remains an underappreciated part of its success with the iPhone app platform.
Read the rest of this story »See Also:iPhone Developer: Why I'm Not Making Apps For Android Or Palm (Yet) (AAPL, GOOG, PALM)How iPhone Apps Are Raking In Cash From Virtual Goods (AAPL, ERTS)Why Apple Co...
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Can Private Equity Turn Around Nielsen's Fledgling Trade Mags?
11/25/09
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The Nielsen Company's beleaguered trade-publishing unit, including Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter and Adweek, is on the block again. Can a private-equity group including the publisher of The Hill newspaper and News Corp. scion Lachlan Murdoch save it?
The titles have long b...
'Today' Show Gang Toasts Al Roker's Book
11/25/09
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NBC "Today" show duo Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira co-hosted a book party for Al Roker last night at at Sushi Samba in the West Village, where they toasted -- and roasted -- the affable weatherman.
Roker -- a fan of mystery-novel machine James Patterson -- published his first book this week, entitle...
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AOL Stock Could Shoot Down To Low $20s As Big Time Warner Shareholders Flee
11/25/09
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AOL will spin off from Time Warner next week and trade as a separate company. This week, some Wall Street banks have started coverage of the stock with initial remarks and recommendations.
Read the rest of this story »See Also:AOL's Stock Is Worth $37, Says Barclays (AOL)AOL's First Acquisition... ...
Google News Without News Corp. Is No Big Loss
11/25/09
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The media world is in a (relative) uproar over what the implications of News Corp. pulling its content off Google would be. But! A three-part Gawker investigation-type thing indicates the impact might be quite minimal for you, the consumer. Observe:
The most popular story on WSJ.com yesterday was the...
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Adam Lambert: `I Admit I Got Carried Away'
11/25/09
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CBS' "The Early Show" has transformed into "The Adam Lambert Show."
CBS immediately booked Lambert after ABC's "Good Morning America" canceled his performance -- and this Wednesday morning, the network is milking his appearance for all it's worth.
Read the rest of this story »See Also:Adam Lambert T...
Online Ad Revenues Down 5.4%
11/25/09
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Online spending has improved ever so slightly, but remains depressed, according to data released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau. For the third quarter, online ad sales were $5.5 billion. That's down 5.4%, and just up 1.7% from the second quarter.
Things should improve in the fourth quarter. Ma...
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Overstock: Actually, Grant Thornton Is Lying
11/25/09
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The pissing match between Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne and his former accounting firm continues.
Last week, in a very unusual move, Byrne announced that he had fired Grant Thornton because the firm had changed its mind about how Overstock should account for a $785,000 payment that boosted the company'...
LinkedIn IPO Not Coming Soon
11/25/09
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LONDON (Reuters) - LinkedIn, the world's biggest professional social network, will probably pursue an initial public offering some time but not in the near future, co-founder and executive chairman Reid Hoffman told Reuters.
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iPhone To Be Sold In The UK Equivalent Of Walmart
11/25/09
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Is an iPhone price war about to break out in the UK? After Vodafone and Orange bagged the iPhone – when O2’s two year monopoly expired in September – we learn today that Tesco, the UK supermarket leviathan, is to sell the iPhone on Tesco Mobile, its MVNO joint venture partnership...
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Google Launching E-Book Service In Japan
11/25/09
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Google will launch an e-book service called Google Editition in Japan, according to Japanese business paper Nikkei.
Book publishers will determine the prices of the books, keeping 63% of the sales. The service debuts in English speaking countries in the spring, then in Japan six months later.
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Washington Post To Close LA, New York And Chicago Bureaus
11/24/09
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The paper will announce plans to shut down those bureaus to trim costs, the Washington City Paper reports.
And the correspondents? They'll move back to Washington to focus on reporting from the capital city.
Read the rest of this story »See Also:Already Opining: Harvard 1L Is Finalist For Washingto...
CHART OF THE DAY: Online Retail Sales Growth Remains Weak
11/24/09
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Online holiday sales are set to grow a modest 8% this year according to research from Forrester, by way of Read Write Web. It's an improvement over last year's anemic 5% g...
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Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell Out
11/24/09
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Microsoft (MSFT) CFO Chris Liddell will leave the company at the end of 2009. Peter Klein will take his job.
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Canadians And Australians Are OK With Yahoo-Microsoft Search Deal
11/24/09
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Yahoo's (YHOO) deal to outsource its search business to Microsoft (MSFT) remains under review in the US and Europe.
But a Microsoft rep tells us the Australian and Canadian governments are OK with it!Join the conversation about this story »See Also:Yahoo Is A "Portal," But That's A Dirty Word (YHOO)...
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