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Don’t Miss Tina Brown Interviewing Cathie Black at EconWomen, Oct. 29 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rachelle Crum - Thu 09 Oct 2008 09:48 PM PST

We’re excited to announce that Tina Brown, co-founder and editor in chief of The Daily Beast, will interview Hearst Magazines President Cathie Black in a Spotlight Q&A at our EconWomen…

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Bell Canada Picks LTE For 4G Despite Investments In WiMax And Clearwire - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 10 Oct 2008 05:16 PM PST

Bell Canada said today that it will use LTE to build out its 4G network, an unexpected move for a company which has many close ties to the competing WiMax…

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FCC Tests Determine White Space Devices Can Operate Without Interference Problems - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 04:54 PM PST

Devices are capable of accessing the “white spaces” between airwaves without affecting the adjacent licensed networks under certain power-level limits, the FCC concluded in a detailed report released Friday afternoon.…

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Patricof on “R.I.P Good Times”: Don’t Burrow Into a Dark Hole - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 04:33 PM PST

And while Sequoia and other left-coast VC firms are asking their firms to tighten up, and strategically leaking their own advice about surviving the economic downturn (nevermind their investments into…

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Departing Mansueto Digital Head Forms New Drupal-Based Social Publishing Firm - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 04:27 PM PST

We reported earlier today about Fast Company’s merging digital with print operations, and Ed Sussman, the president of Mansueto Digital, leaving as a result. He is now starting a new…

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Fast Company Lays Off 20 As Digital Folds Into Print Operations; Sussman Leaving - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 10 Oct 2008 02:20 PM PST

Layoffs at Mansueto Ventures, specifically the digital side of Fast Company, the result, we’re told, of a decision to fold Mansueto Digital into the company’s print operations. At the same…

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Verizon Backtracks On 3 Cent SMS Fee; It’s A ‘Proposal’ Up For ‘Discussion’ - 1 Comment
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 01:25 PM PST

Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) is backtracking on the 3 cent per-SMS fee it told partners it would begin charging for every message delivered over its network. And yet it still…

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Economic Meltdown Strikes Viacom, CBS Corp.; Both Warn Investors On Lowered Outlook - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 12:59 PM PST

It looks to be a brutal Q3 reporting season: Both Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and CBS (NYSE: CBS) Corp have cut their respective outlooks, warning investors that they have been taking…

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Top Headlines Of The Week From paidContent.org, And paidContent:UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:59 AM PST

Top headlines of the week from our sister sites paidContent.org and paidContent:UK: paidContent.org: -- Yahoo’s Stock Below $13; Other Media Stock Down To New Lows -- Financial Crisis Sends Ad…

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Top Headlines Of The Week From mocoNews and paidContent:UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:57 AM PST

Top headlines of the week from our sister sites mocoNews and paidContent:UK: mocoNews: -- Tech Startups Told To Cut Back Spending; Analysts Say Downturn Will Hit Wireless Industry -- Interview:…

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UMG CEO: Piracy Will Be Solved By Technology, Not People; Timing on Hulu-Like Music Video Site - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:56 AM PST

Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris can never be accused of being shy, or, putting his foot in, oh well...in an extensive interview with Billboard, he talks about the digital…

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BlackBerry-Maker Research In Motion Ripe For Takeover Bid: Analyst - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:26 AM PST

The Research In Motion takeover guessing game has returned. With the BlackBerry-maker’s shares having dropped from more than $148 to around $60 in four tumultuous months, cash-rich companies could be…

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YouTube Starts Running Full Length CBS Shows - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 10:41 AM PST

YouTube, hoping to counter the competition from sites like the NBC/*News Corp*. JV Hulu, has started running full-length episodes of CBS (NYSE: CBS) programming. Executives at the Google-owned video site…

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Google Readying iPhone-Specific Ads - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 10:26 AM PST

Even with the first Android device set to launch in a matter of days, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) still has the iPhone and the inherent opportunities it presents high on its…

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Italian Mobile Entertainment Company Neomobile Raises $13.5 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 10 Oct 2008 10:11 AM PST

Neomobile, an Italian mobile entertainment company, has raised $13.5 million (10 million euros) from the Private Equity arm of Monte Paschi Siena, which will recieve a 16 percent stake in…

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CEA Group Gets Involved In Mobile TV Standardization - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:51 AM PST

The Consumer Electronics Association has thrust itself into the mobile TV standardization process by working with a group, which is defining the characteristics of a mobile/handheld features that will be…

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AP Tells Staff Debt Free, Diversified Revenue Streams But Cash Flow Affected, Hiring Freeze - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:19 AM PST

The Associated Press, source of so much of today’s financial news, is doing a little in-house education on its own finances. In a memo to staff sent out yesterday and…

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Top Jobs Of The Week In Digital Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:18 AM PST

Our latest top jobs in the industry posted this week: -- *Clear Channel* Radio: Director, Research and Advanced Technology Product Development -- Rodale: Director of Online Advertising Operations -- 20th…

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Hearst Shutters CosmoGirl Mag, Though Website Will Live On - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:18 AM PST

Magazines may have been weathering the economic downturn better than newspapers, but the current upheaval in the financial markets makes it only more likely that survival will be more difficult.…

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The Money Somehow Ran Out: 11 Troubled Web Companies - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:17 AM PST

A link bait if there ever was one, and a flawed one at best, but then, always fun for the rest of us: a list of 11 online companies that…

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Industry Moves: MSLO Hires InStyle.com’s Horwood To Chart Online Editorial Strategy - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 08:16 AM PST

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) has named former InStyle.com exec Gail Horwood to the new role of SVP Digital Programming and Strategy. Horwood will oversee MSLO’s digital properties, including…

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Update: Small Yahoo Investor Asks MSFT To Rebid At $22; Asking For Asia Spinoff; Shares Below $12 - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 08:08 AM PST

Updated below: At the rate it is going, $15 per share might sound enticing to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) after a while. A small Yahoo investor Mithras Capital has put out…

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Hollywood.com Acquires Box Office Data Site Media By Numbers - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 10 Oct 2008 07:53 AM PST

Hollywood.com, the newly independent and newly relaunched, online celeb/entertainment sites, has acquired Media by Numbers, a box office data and analysis resource founded by Paul Dergarabedian, Variety reports. Financial information…

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As Online Ad Growth Slows Elsewhere, Nielsen Ramps Up China Ventures - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 07:35 AM PST

With China’s internet audience estimated at 250 million and growing as the U.S. online ad market slows, Nielsen is hoping for a little balance by expanding its partnerships to measure…

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RBI Sale At Risk Of Falling Through As Bidding Price Drops To $1.7 billion - 1 Comment
Posted By Patrick Smith - Fri 10 Oct 2008 07:24 AM PST

Reed Elsevier’s (NYSE: RUK) troubled attempt to sell-off its UK B2B division Reed Business Information appears to be in big trouble with the news that bids for the company since…

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