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News Corp earnings were up across the board, as the company swung to a profit of $254 million ($0.10) in Q4, reversing $6.4 billion loss. The company said this reflected double-digit growth at its “majority business segments.” Even the newspaper/information segment was up, gaining 29.5 percent over last year’s period. While the ...
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Normally, it takes quite a bit of time before a startup gets any sort of mainstream spotlight. That's not the case with Blippy . Tonight, the controversial social credit card data aggregator was featured on Comedy Central's Colbert Report . As you might imagine, host Stephen Colbert ripped into the service's ability to show everyday purchases at ...
 
Om Malik
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GigaOM
Evernote, a Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up that says that Nokia has developed a version of its web service that allows users to capture and store information using the built-in sharing functionality of the device. It is made possible using a plug-in using the Evernote API.
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In Thursday’s (Feb. 4) hearing, the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Communications & Internet Subcommittee will be looking at a merged Comcast/NBCU’s “unique and commanding” position in the media marketplace, including what could be its power to “fundamentally shape the way Web video evolves,”
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Dems Tee Up Comcast/NBCU Concerns
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Every time we discuss ad networks with top execs they make a point of bashing Glam Media. It's a known scam they will tell you. CEO Samir Arora is 100% marketing and 0% substance. Glam has zero technology. Glam has nearly zero traffic that it owns - and buys traffic to its slick owned and operated site as a showcase to advertisers. And Glam isn't ...
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Rafat Ali
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Glam Raises $50 Million Mezzanine Round at $750 Million Valuation
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Glam Media, the online women and lifestyle media and ad-network company, has raised another big round, this time a mezannine round before its logical next move of an IPO in the next year or so. It has received about $50 million in this fifth round, led by Aeris Capital, the European fund, with existing investors Hubert Burda Media and Mizuho ...
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As you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ...
Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:
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Jason Kincaid
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TechCrunch
3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...
Joseph Tartakoff
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Brazen Careerist , a social networking site geared towards “next-generation professionals,” has raised about $1 million in a funding round, according to an SEC filing . As the name implies, no fun and games on this site. Instead, it’s specifically designed to help young people advance in their professions—a role that the ...
Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.
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The mega yacht business has been slow recently, but at least one luxury shipbuilder appears to be betting on a rebound.
Google has clarified that it will not index publishers against their wishes, in response to Rupert Murdoch's threat to block the search engine from his newspapers’ websites.
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Stocks tiptoed higher Tuesday as investors mulled UPS' improved outlook and a Senate hearing on financial reform, while a weaker dollar lifted commodity stocks.
Two California federal buildings are receiving retrofit to improve their energy efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint. The Bay Area’s Lumenergi is playing a role in the energy efficiency makeover by providing its advanced intelligent lighting solutions for the buildings in San Francisco and Oakland. Chosen by the U.S. General Services ...
Ford Motor reported improved auto sales in January, helped by comparisons to terrible sales a year ago, problems at rival Toyota Motor and the critical success of its own products.
 
Seth Godin
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Seth
The Lemonade movie is so professional, engaging and inspiring that you've probably already seen it. If not, here it is. Todd Sattersten has written a free ebook about pricing that's well worth the time it takes to review. It will change the way you think about pricing. And if you can, take a look at this poetry video from Gabrielle Bouliane. She ...
It's called Fixed to Flexible. This ebook collects the commercial aspects of cost, price, and margin and presents a variety of alternatives about how to make your way in the world of infinite of choice.
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Liz Gannes
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GigaOM
Adchemy has figured out a way to tweak web ads to make them dramatically more effective. The company performs a crazy real-time technical dance to optimize the ads and landing pages shown to searchers. We visited its new office this week to learn more.
Got this recipe off of lisi's luscious desserts for oatmeal raisin cookies. chewy, tasty, buttery and just plain delicious. made a huge batch an added dried cranberries to the mix.
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