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Warner's Rhino Expands Global Digital Efforts; New Role For Dorn

David Dorn doesnt flinch when the C wordcheesycomes up during an interview about Rhino Entertainment. He embraces it, talking about the two extremes of the Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) catalo...

NYT Book Review Spins Off For E-Readers; Sony First

The search for revenue by deconstructing the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) into its most valuable pieces for various platforms continues. Up next: the New York Times Book Review for e-reader. NYT ...

Variety Follows Oscars By Cutting 8, Including Chief Film Critic

Variety followed up Sundays Academy Awards with a different batch of envelopes, handing out pink slips to eight editorial staffersincluding chief film critic Todd McCarthy and theater critic Da...

Motricity Updates IPO Filing: Q4 Revenues Up, Losses Improve

Motricity increased revenues, narrowed its losses and even generated cash in 2009, according to new documents filed today as part of the companys IPO ambitions.

When the company first filed paperwork in January, it reported results for the first nine months of the year. Today, in an updated registration statement filed with the SEC, Motricity reported complete results for 2009 that put the companys performance into a more positive light.

Still, the c...

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Plancast Gets $800,000 For Plan Sharing

Plancast, a startup which offers an easy way for people to share their plans, has raised $800,000 from SoftTechVC, True Ventures, Founders Fund Angel, Zelkova Ventures, as well as a number of angel investors. On Plancast, users post what they plan on doing later; users can track each others accounts and also indicate publicly that they too plan on attending the same event.

Co-founder Mark Hendrickson tells us that the sitewhich launched in Novemberboast...

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Quick Hits: iPad Edition 03.08.2010

Gadget sites have been abuzz with all things Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as the companys stock hits yet another record high today, and gears up for iPad pre-orders at the end of the week. Weve rounded u...

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CBS Adds Live 3G Streaming To March Madness App; Charges $9.99

No need to duck out of work early, now you can watch March Madness games live over your iPhone, and for the first timeanywhere over AT&Ts 3G network.

The application, which is expected to be available Monday on iTunes, will cost $9.99twice as much as last years version that was limited wi-fi networks. Rob Gelick, the SVP and GM of CBS (NYSE: CBS) Mobile, expects the demand to be there for live streaming video: Last year, we were the first to do a live sporting event with the March Madness app, and since the...

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IAC's Citysearch Invests In Ad Marketer OrangeSoda; Expands Local Ad Net CityGrid

IAC-owned local guide network Citysearch is expanding its local listings ad service CityGrid through a partnership with search marketer OrangeSoda. Citysearch is also providing an investment in...

The iPad Makes Its TV Ad Debut

Apples iPad made its TV advertising debut at the Oscars just now. Heres the clip (via Engadget and Alley Insider):

The Show Goes On: Cablevision, Disney Reach 'Agreement In Principle' On WABC Fee

Disney (NYSE: DIS) says it has reached an agreement in principle with Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) that recognizes the fair value of ABC7 with deal points that we expect to finalize with Cablevision. Translation: Cablevision subs are watching the Oscars after all. The agreementwhich Cablevision didnt even mention in its terse statementcame more than 19 hours after Disney shut off the signal to WABC for some 3.1 million New York-area subs.

WABC explained: Given this movement, we’re pleased to announce that ABC7...

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Do you feel that Internet access is a fundamental right? Four in five adults in more than 26 different countries agree with you, according to a new poll sponsored by the BBC World Service. The poll asked more than 27,000 adults about their attit...

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Burbn, a stealthy startup that brings mobile location check-in gameplay (à la Foursquare and Gowalla) to the mobile browser, has raised $500,000 from Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Burbn founder Kevin Systrom confirmed the round to us ...

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Roger Ebert Makes Pay Play: The Ebert Club

Roger Ebert thrives on the web. Now he'd like to get paid for it but not by blocking access to the site or its 10,000-review archive. Instead the Chicago Sun-Times movie critic -- a master blog...

Microsoft's Dual Track Strategy for Mobile May Include Sidekick Refresh In 2010

When Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) unveiled Windows Phone 7 last month, we figured that was the extent of its comeback plans in mobile. But now, theres evidence that the software giant has something e...

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Atex Reportedly Buys Majority Stake In Classifieds Site Kaango

Atex, which provides software systems to media firms, has purchased a majority stake in classifieds site Kaango, according to Classified Intelligence. Classified Intelligence says in a clients-...

Cablevision's WABC Oscar Fans Held Hostage: Day Three

If Im already fatigued by the extended PR volley between Disney and Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) over retransmission fees, just imagine how Cablevision subs counting on WABC for the Academy Awards S...

Google Experiments With Searching With Gestures

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has unveiled a new way to search on Android-powered phones: Gestures. According to a post on the Google Mobile Blog, the experimental application is available on Android-p...

Washington Post's Sheikholeslami: 'Year Of Experimentation' For Paid Mobile App

Like so many of its peers, The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) is trying to find the right notes to play in just the right order when it comes to getting paid for digital content. Unfortunately, Jo...

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The big daddy awards show, The Oscars, is getting with the social-media picture this year and live-streaming from its red carpet to the web. A live show on Oscar.com from 3-5 p.m. PT on Sunday will be followed by behind-the-scenes clips and interv...

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I dont often look at my cellular phone bills, but I happened to glance at the latest one from T-Mobile. My first full monthly billing cycle didnt show anything out of the ordinary, but the monthly data usage happened to catch my eye. I thought I c...

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Code Advisors Adds Credit Suisse Vet Scarborough

New investment bank Code Advisors has picked up some senior banking expertise with the hiring of Chris Scarborough, an 11-year vet of Credit Suisse with significant Silicon Valley tech-media experience. Scarborough doesnt have a formal titlethe next-gen firm co-founded by for CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) CEO Quincy Smith, Fred Davis and Michael Marquez is playing down titles for the most partbut Smith tells me he will assemble the analyst-associate team. Scarborough also will be working with clients on busin...

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Macmillan CEO Promises Most E-Books Will Still Be Under $10

Weeks after Macmillan CEO John Sargent told Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) the publisher was switching to the agency model for e-book salesprompting the e-tailer to black out its e-books for several days,...

Yahoo's European Mobile Head Mitch Lazar Resigns

Mitch Lazar, Yahoos European Mobile managing director, is stepping down from his post after working at the company for four and a half years. Lazar marks one of many recent departures from Ya...

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Apps for Army Launches - The Hybrid Enterprise?

This week the U.S. Army announced the launch of Apps for Army. It is modeled on the Apps for Democracy contests in the District of Columbia and is being run by the same indefatigable Peter Corbett and his iStrategyLabs. It looks to uncork the Ar...

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Twitter today gave seven real-time search and discovery companies that range from funded startups to part-time, one-man operations access to 100 percent of its tweets. Twitters Firehose is a valuable asset; the company has made partners like Googl...

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Its hard out there for a systems vendor that is, if the death of Liquid Computing, an Ottawa, Ontario-based startup that until last week was building a unified computing box to help manage the virtualization of the data center, is any indication....

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Vancouver 2010: NBCOlympics.com By The Numbers

The data is starting to roll in for the full Vancouver Olympics. NBC hasnt been to provide some of the stats weve asked forthe number of video streams served the night the first USA-CAN hockey ...

4A's Roundup: Yahoo's Bartz Talks Data; Huffington Beyond The Paywall;

Marketers and agency execs began gathering for the 4As Transformation 2010 conference in San Francisco to go over the current challenges to the traditional way of doing business. On day two, t...

The Re-Making Of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) unveiled a completely new smartphone operating system last month that in no way resembles its past corporate image. The new Windows Phone 7 fits somewhere between Bings v...

Disney, Cablevision Fight Over Cost Of 'Free' TV

During last months earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger couldnt have been clearer about his willingness to shut off access to distributors unwilling to pay retrans fees. We’re pretty resolute, Iger told analystsand by extension, cable and satellite operators. Just three weeks later, Disney (NYSE: DIS) is trying to show that resolution, launching an intense campaign today to warn Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) subscribers that they could lose access to local station WABC-TV, Ch. 7, at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.

In an open ...

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Scripps Sold uSwitch For Only $10 Million, 3 Years After Buying It For $366 million

Late last year when Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) finally announced the sale of its UK utility comparison shopping site uSwitch, we knew it was for a lowball price, and we guessed ar...

Mobile Ad Network Mobclix Acquires Heartbeat For iPhone Analytics

Mobclix, a mobile ad network aggregator, has acquired Heartbeat from New York-based Enormego for its ability to analyze the performance of iPhone applications, including sales reporting, statis...

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