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Google and Partners Seek a Television Foothold — Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes. — The move is an effort by Google and Intel to extend their dominance …
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ABC and Amanpour Close to Deal for ‘This Week’ — ABC News is close to concluding a deal to install the longtime CNN foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour as the new host of its Sunday political discussion show “This Week.” — The network's interest in Ms. Amanpour …
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AOL Sets Up $10 Million Venture Fund To Back Local Startups — AOL (NYSE: AOL)—which is doubling down on its own local efforts—is now setting up a $10 million venture capital fund to invest in the local space. The company cites the “increasing number of startups” in the market as driving …
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Nadia Majid / VentureBeat:
Hitwise: People get their news from Facebook and Google — not Twitter — The value of Twitter when it comes to breaking news and eyewitness reports has been discussed as length (evidenced by CNN's race to get the most followers, and the buzz surrounding the site's role in the Iran protests last year) …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
An ‘unanswerable’ question: Can the iPad save magazines? — Even though the South by Southwest panel's title asked, “Could the iPad have saved Gourmet?” it wasn't until the session's closing minutes that someone finally mentioned the now-defunct magazine. That's when an audience member asked …
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Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
Yes, It Was a Bad Year for Ad Spending, But It Got Less Worse in the Fourth Quarter — Last year was, as expected, a terrible year for advertising spending in this country, according to a leading research company. But the year ended better than it began — still down …
Eli Sanders / The Stranger:
The Great West Coast Newspaper War — San Francisco in 2010 is a strange place for an old-school newspaper war. This is the city where the dot-com industry started, where Yelp is the way to make dinner plans, where Digg is headquartered, where Apple just unveiled its new tablet computer …
Stephanie Clifford / Media Decoder:
Patrick McCarthy to Leave Condé Nast — Patrick McCarthy, the chairman and editorial director of Condé Nast's Fairchild Fashion Group and de facto editor of the fashion magazine W, will be leaving the company at the end of the year. — The news was announced in a press release …
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter avoids jail after source reveals himself — A judge has admitted that he gave a psychiatric evaluation of serial-killing suspect Anthony Sowell to Plain Dealer reporter Gabriel Baird. The judge who threatened to jail Baird started today's hearing by blasting …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Daily Mail: iPad, E-Readers Will Have ‘Absolutely No’ Impact This Year — Hang on - weren't publishers falling over themselves in the rush for e-reader salvation? The Association of Online Publishers, in this video with its members, has found many execs are neither glowing nor certain about the e-reader opportunity in 2010...
Jack Shafer / Slate:
What's Wrong With the Post Op-Ed Page? — Washington Post domestic-policy blogger Ezra Klein encroached on my beat yesterday with an item griping about the surplus of op-eds by politicians on the Post's op-ed page. Such pieces “waste so much real estate publishing talking points,” …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
AOL Unveils New Food Site Run By Former Gourmet, Epicurious Editors — AOL (NYSE: AOL) practically added two new sites a month last year as part of its goal to reach 100 sites under its MediaGlow content group. While the content strategy has lately rested on building up its freelance content site Seed.com …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Hyperlocal Newswire Fwix To Provide Content To NYTCo Properties — The NYTCo's local content efforts are getting a quick boost from hyperlocal newswire Fwix. In a sense, the deal with Fwix can buttress the NYTimes.com's New York metro area blogs program, The Local, which it began last year.
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
YouTube Is Huge: 24 Hours of Video Now Uploaded Every Minute — YouTube has just announced that it has surpassed yet another milestone, and this one's a doozy: 24 hours of video is now uploaded to the social video site every sixty seconds. Every second you are browsing YouTube, a full 24 minutes of video is uploaded to the site.
Felix Gillette / New York Observer:
Former Bookforum Editor Chris Lehmann Joins Yahoo News — In mid-January, Yahoo News blogging editor Andrew Golis posted a notice on his personal Web site, announcing that he was looking to hire a deputy editor and five bloggers. “As many of you know, I was recently hired by Yahoo News …
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Sequoia's Kvamme: Social Media Marketing Can Replace Advertising — Sequoia Capital partner Mark Kvamme, citing examples from campaigns run on Funny or Die and AdMob, told an audience of marketers at OMMA Global in San Francisco today, “If you can harness social media marketing, you don't have to pay for advertising any more.”
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Fox discusses deal with Conan O'Brien — The network may have a viable plan to bring the comedian back to late night, sources say. — Fox Broadcasting is inching closer to bringing Conan O'Brien back to late night. — Key Fox executives, including Rupert Murdoch, are on board with the plan …
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Ailes to the DC Staff: No More Shooting Inside the Tent — Fox News founder and chairman Roger Ailes dropped in to the Washington Bureau this afternoon for an impromptu talk to the troops ahead of tonight's RTCA dinner. — Sources inside the packed newsroom tell TVNewser Ailes started …
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