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Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:
This Life: Google Restricts Ads for ‘Cougar’ Sites — IF you're a woman who would like to date younger men, you can find lots of articles about these relationships by doing a Google search. — But as a woman looking for a man, you might be a little confused by the advertisements that accompany these articles.
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Merged Honolulu Star-Advertiser Begins June 7 — As Many As 400 People Will Be Laid Off — HONOLULU — The merged Honolulu Star-Advertiser debuts June 7, with nearly 400 people losing their jobs in the process, according to the publisher of the combined newspaper.
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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Legal experts: LimeWire likely doomed — A federal court judge has likely dealt a death blow to LimeWire, one of the most popular and oldest file-sharing systems, according to legal experts. — On Wednesday, CNET broke the news that U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood granted summary judgment …
Sebastien Provencher / The Praized Blog:
Are Newspapers Outsourcing Core Features to Foursquare? — Megan Garber from the Nieman Journalism Lab explains in details how the Wall Street Journal uses Foursquare to offer geo-localized news: … via Location, location, etc: What does the WSJ's Foursquare check-in say about the future of location in news?
Dennis Yang / Techdirt:
Viacom Still Not Getting It — Files Bogus Takedown And Kills Some Free Transformers Buzz — Ben Brown and Micki Krimmel stumbled upon the filming of Transformers 3, and from their office window, watched as cars were thrown across the air for one of the scenes.
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Steve Clarke / Variety:
Asian Pacific TV ad market booms — Region's revenue moves past W. Europe — LONDON — The size of the TV advertising market in Asia Pacific overtook Western Europe for the first time last year, propelled by booming economies in China and India. — Total net TV advertising for Asia Pacific …
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Google-and-the-News Followups — There is a wider variety of reaction to my current article (I've got to say it: subscribe!) than I can deal with in any comprehensive way at the moment. For now, a restatement of a central theme, then two reader dissents. — If there is a point that …
Media Week:
NEWSPAPER ABCS: Daily Star suffers April setback — LONDON - Richard Desmond's Daily Star tabloid hit the buffers in April after its circulation fell month-on-month for the first time in 2010. — Daily Star: circulation fall — Desmond has been aggressively price promoting the newspaper …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Gizmodo Editor Brian Lam's Email To Steve Jobs Raises Question: Would Gizmodo Have Published IPhone Story If Apple Hadn't Spurned It? — After Gizmodo published its exclusive on the [stolen] iPhone 4.0, Steve Jobs called Gizmodo and asked for it back. — For a variety of reasons …
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Lori Rotenberk / New York Times:
Terkel Coming Online — If someone was an important figure in American culture in the 20th century, chances are he or she was interviewed by Studs Terkel. — Conversations with Rosa Parks, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King Jr. and Louis Armstrong are among the nearly 6,000 hours of interviews conducted …
Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
Apple's Way — Why publishers should beware the App Store. In a brilliant column published 16 years ago, the Italian philosopher Umberto Eco explained the difference between Apple and Microsoft in terms of the divide between Catholics and Protestants. In the DOS-based universe, he noted …
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
NBC Bows ‘Fan It’ Viewer Rewards Program Online — As it looks to bounce back from another disappointing season, NBC is urging its viewers to become advocates of their favorite shows through a rewards-based program called Fan It. — Similar to Facebook's “Like” function …
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