Mediagazer: PlayJam Takes $5 Million To Go Global With Its Connected TV Games (Robert Andrews/paidContent)

11:30 AM ET, October 25, 2011

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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple TV Effort Said to Be Led By ITunes Creator — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is turning to the software engineer who built iTunes to help lead its development of a television set, according to three people with knowledge of the project. — Jeff Robbin, who helped create the iPod in addition …

Steve Zeitchik / LA Times:

Will Aaron Sorkin take on Steve Jobs? — EXCLUSIVE: Steve Jobs was front and center again Sunday night when “60 Minutes” aired its much-anticipated interview with his biographer, Walter Isaacson. It proably won't be the last time the Apple co-founder will dominate our screens.

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Media Monkey / The Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch bows to Steve Jobs

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John Koblin / WWD:

Huffington Post Launches Parentlode Blog — HUFFING AND PUFFING: The New York Times and The Huffington Post feud isn't going away. — Times lawyers fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Arianna Huffington on Monday, claiming that The Huffington Post's new blog, Parentlode …

Discussion: Poynter, paidContent, New York Magazine, Gawker, On Media's Blog and The Huffington Post

David Lieberman / Deadline.com:

Is It “Nuclear Winter” For Netflix? Analysts Tell Investors To Bail After 3Q Setbacks — Netflix is in for a brutal morning: The stock is down 35% in pre-market trading from its $118.84 close yesterday as some influential Wall Street tell investors it's time to dump the stock following …

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MediaPost:
Netflix Streams Revs, But Stock Takes Big Hit

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Reed Hastings Lays Out the Netflix Comeback Plan

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Netflix Shares Tank After Losing Subscribers, And Terrible Guidance

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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:

No, CNET Is NOT In Talks To Buy gdgt — Several sources close to CBS Interactive tell us that CNET is not in talks to buy gadget news site gdgt, shooting down a report that a buy is imminent. — One source said that CNET hadn't even approached gdgt for a round of talks.

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

CNET In Talks To Acquire gdgt As Early As This Week — Back in 2009, TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington wrote that CNET (and parent company CBS) were sniffing around gdgt, the then-brand-new community/review site/blog by Peter Rojas and Ryan Block. While CNET was considering an investment at the time …

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Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

News Corp: James Murdoch suffers confidence blow in vote — News Corp shareholders have dealt a significant blow to James Murdoch and his brother Lachlan at this year's annual general meeting, with around a third of all shareholders voting against both — James Murdoch has been re-elected …

Discussion: MediaFile, Journalism.co.uk, Deadline.com and The Huffington Post

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

News among most popular tablet uses, US report finds — Study by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, in collaboration with the Economist Group, also found more users prefer to view news via browsers rather than apps — US tablet survey found that browsers are more popular than apps for consuming news

Discussion: Reflections of a Newsosaur, Adweek, Journalism.co.uk, Editors Weblog and Poynter, more at Techmeme »

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

TMZ founder Harvey Levin's unsolicited advice to mainstream media: Adapt or die — America's foremost gossipmonger has a little unsolicited advice for the nation's mainstream media: Your business model is broken. Your future is in jeopardy. Adapt or die.

Zachary Sniderman / Mashable!:

Amazon Embraces HTML5 for New Ebooks — Amazon is gearing up to introduce a new, HTML5-based ebook format called Kindle Format 8, the company announced Friday. — KF8 is an improvement over the current Mobi 7 standard, with new features that allow publishers to create richer formats and add more advanced design elements.

Discussion: Engadget

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
JP Morgan: Kindle Fire expected to sell 5 million in Q4

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Heather Struck / Forbes:
Amazon: Stage Is Set For Uphill Revenue Growth

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Michael Musto / La Daily Musto:

Bloomberg Media To Be Rocked with Discrimination Lawsuit — I've just learned that Bloomberg Media's International Managing Director of Television Brian Martinez—who I knew back in the '90s club days—is filing suit with that company for having been relieved of his duties in July.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Talking Biz News

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

PlayJam Takes $5 Million To Go Global With Its Connected TV Games — PlayJam, which distributes its own and now third-party casual games to TVs in Europe, is taking a $5 million first investment round to help it do the same in the U.S. and Asia. — The money comes from GameStop Digital Ventures …

Discussion: GigaOM

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Metro Hails Newsstand For Strong Downloads, High Engagement — UK free commuter newspaper Metro's new iPad Newsstand edition has proved almost as popular within two weeks of launch as its predecessor had been over a whole year. — The app clocked 155,000 downloads in the 11 days between launch …

Jessica Davies / New Media Age:

Current TV to launch online series sourced from Vimeo community — Current TV and video-sharing site Vimeo have struck a deal to launch an online TV documentary series sourced from Vimeo's online filmmaker community. — The companies will kick off their partnership with a competition aimed …

Colby Hall / Mediaite:

James O'Keefe's Latest Project Alleges Journalistic Corruption; Targets HuffPost's Sam Stein — James O'Keefe and his Project Veritas appear to have a new institution in their sights with a new hidden camera video project titled “To Catch a Journalist: Part One.”

Discussion: FishbowlDC, Erik Wemple, Poynter and Big Journalism

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

Sarah Fenske to replace Drex Heikes as LA Weekly editor — Village Voice Media brings in someone from its St. Louis alternative paper to run its L.A. counterpart. — LA Weekly Editor Drex Heikes announced Monday that he would step down and the Phoenix-based company that publishes …