Mediagazer: Board Member David Kenny Wants The Yahoo CEO Job (Nicholas Carlson/Business Insider)

2:00 PM ET, September 28, 2011

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Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet, Targeting IPad — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the world's largest online retailer, unveiled its Kindle Fire tablet computer, taking aim at Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s bestselling iPad with a device that's smaller and less than half the price.

Steven Levy / Epicenter:

Playing With Fire: Amazon Launches $200 Tablet, Slashes Kindle Prices — One year ago, almost to the day, Jeff Bezos gave me the reason why people should carry around a Kindle in the age of the iPad. No Angry Birds. — “The number one app for the iPad when I checked a couple of days ago …

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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Amazon Unveils New $79 E-Ink Kindle, $99 Kindle Touch — Looks like the Kindle Fire wasn't all Amazon had planned for us. Amazon has revealed a new line of E-Ink Kindle that looks to bolster their “traditional” eReader lineup. — The Kindle Touch features an IR touch system that's similar …

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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:

Amazon's Lukewarm Fire: No Kindle Tablets Outside U.S. — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has revealed its price-busting Kindle Fire tablet for $199 alongside a new touchscreen Kindle Touch. But that news will not be as big as it could have been: the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch are being launched …

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Ryan Block / gdgt:
Oh, one more thing about the Amazon tablet: the second, better version is coming very soon

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Julia Angwin / Digits:

Wall Street Journal Revises Its Privacy Policy — The Wall Street Journal revised its website privacy policy on Tuesday to allow the site to connect personally identifiable information with Web browsing data without user consent. — Previously, the Journal's privacy policy stated that it would obtain …

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Dan Gillmor / Google+:
What a crappy and hypocritical move by the Wall Street Journal …

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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:

Media coverage of Wall Street protest ramps up following cop clash — Major media outlets—Yahoo included—have drawn criticism for their collective lack of coverage of the ongoing, youth-led protests near Wall Street. But it appears that tide is changing.

Jerry Barmash / FishbowlNY:

WNET/MetroFocus Reporter Calls Arrest at Occupy Wall Street Protest ‘Pretty Terrifying’ — A young reporter got caught in the crosshairs of a chaotic scene in Lower Manhattan. John Farley (left) of WNET's new online local news magazine, MetroFocus was at the Occupy Wall Street protests on September 24th.

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Adrianne Jeffries / The New York Observer:
Overnight at Occupy Wall Street

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Board Member David Kenny Wants The Yahoo CEO Job — Yahoo board member David Kenny, currently president of Akamai, is “openly” campaigning for the Yahoo CEO job, a source close to Yahoo tells us. — A second source close to the situation confirms that while Kenny is primarily focused …

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: Yahoo Cofounder Jerry Yang “Has Re-assumed Command”

Ben Popper / Betabeat:

AOL Editor Who Fired Grouper's Jerry Guo in 2008 Wishes He Had Warned Others — Betabeat received an email this morning from Grant Martin, Editor-in-Chief at the travel site Gadling, alerting us that Jerry Guo, the notorious Newsweek writer and startup scammer, had a troubled history with AOL as well.

Thanks:megan

Ben Popper / Betabeat:
How Newsweek's Most Notorious Fellow Got Caught Conning Silicon Alley

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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

In switch, cable operators want to go “a la carte” — * Programmers will resist attempts to unbundle programs — * Sports rights and retransmission fees are biggest costs — U.S. cable operators are privately working on a plan to force programmers to unbundle their networks and allow customers …

Discussion: MediaPost, Electronista, Free Press, App Advice, GigaOM, Gizmodo and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »

Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:

Questions Raised About Dylan Show at Gagosian — Michael Kennedy Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery — Bob Dylan in his studio in the late 1980s. — The freewheeling artistic style of Bob Dylan, who has drawn on a variety of sources in creating his music and has previously raised questions …

Discussion: Boing Boing, Guardian, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and The New York Observer

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:

Time Warner Cable Said to Be Close to Offering HBO Go to Subscribers — Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) is close to offering the HBO Go application to its 12.2 million video subscribers, enabling them to watch shows including “The Sopranos” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” on mobile devices …

Discussion: Deadline.com

Rick Robinson / Street Fight:

Patch Pushback: Warren Webster Fires Back Amid Analysis and Criticism — Besides the drubbing Groupon has taken lately, few have withstood more blows from the media than AOL (as of this writing) and its hoped-for field of greens known as Patch. — Others have reported insiders calculating …

Discussion: Poynter

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

BusinessInsider: it's got a bulging bank account - and even bigger potential — With a new $7m investment, Henry Blodget's ‘fun’ financial news site plans to make a serious play for the subscription dollar — They were looking for $2m and ended up with $7m.

Jon Whiten / AAN:

The Long-Form Renaissance — Over the past year or so, a number of high-profile and prominent journalists and technologists have launched new apps, sites and other ventures dedicated to cultivating lengthy works of journalism. These projects — like The Atavist, Byliner, Longform.org …

Discussion: Poynter

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Hearst Passes 300,000 Monthly Digital Subscribers, Takes a Bow — Hearst, which is about to sell its digital magazines via Amazon's new tablet, wants the world to know it's selling its digital magazines on plenty of other gadgets, too: The publisher says it is now racking up more than 300,000 paid digital downloads per month.

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Nat Ives / AdAge:

Sports Illustrated Gets Roles for Swimsuit Models in EA's New ‘Need for Speed’ — Offers Subscription Plus Full Game for Less Than the Game's Retail Cost — Sports Illustrated is trying to find new readers by integrating a pair of its Swimsuit models, as well as billboards promoting the magazine …

Discussion: New York Post

Christina Warren / Mashable!:
Sports Illustrated Puts Football Rivals on the iPhone and iPad

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Bloomberg:

News Corp. Marketer Used Movie Lessons to Instill Fear in Rivals, Clients — A News Corp. unit that used lessons gleaned from gangster films to motivate employees and crush rivals is the latest arm of Rupert Murdoch's media empire to be swept up in a probe that began with hacking and bribery allegations.

Discussion: Business Insider and Mogulite