Mediagazer: PBS Making Digital Push With New Website, iPad Application (Georg Szalai/Hollywood Reporter)

3:45 PM ET, October 25, 2010

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Noam Cohen / New York Times:

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

PBS Making Digital Push With New Website, iPad Application … PBS is beta-launching Monday a new website at PBS.org, which will offer local content from member stations alongside national content and offer auto-localization features. — The public broadcaster also is launching PBS for iPad …

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

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Fred Vogelstein / Epicenter:

Behold, The Next Media Titans: Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon — smith/flickr. Used with gratitude via a Creative Commons license. — Venture capitalist John Doerr is well known for his hyperbole. Remember his comments about the Internet bubble back in the late 1990s?