Sumner's Death Spiral Continues
A tense holiday season in the Redstone household.
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Internet Week Coming Back Next Year For Seconds
NYC's official tribute to the Internet will take place June 1-8, 2009.
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Blip.TV's Series B: $5.2 Million
A SEC filing puts a number on the video site's latest round, which it announced last month.
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Fox Interactive's Schwanbeck Heads To Drop.io
The 12-year online media veteran becomes Drop.io's VP for Biz Dev.
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Maxim, Blender Publisher Toast In Another Blow To Quadrangle
Future uncertain for popular boob mag.
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Amazon Courting Eggheads To Its Cloud With Free Access To Scientific Data (AMZN)
Need a computer to crack the human genome? Amazon makes it easier to do so on the EC2.
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Week In Review: Yang Out Of Yahoo, Dow Sinks Even Lower
Yahoo's stock had a one day rally on news Yang stepped down, then collapsed along with everything else. Catch up with our weekly news recap.
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Will "Citi Field" Disappear Before Mets Play On It?
From Clusterstock: New York's newest stadium going the way of "Enron Field"?
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Rock Band Creator Eyeing iPhone Music Game, Says Tapulous Not A Threat (VIA)
Not just going to "port" Rock Band to the iPhone and thinks "Tap Tap Revenge" stinks.
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Panicked Citigroup Discusses New Bailout With Feds
Many options on table, none simple or good. As of late Friday evening, no decisions have been made.
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Akamai Jumps After Investor Day (AKAM)
Shares rise 11% after the CDN's dog and pony show.
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GigaOm Ditching Federated Media For Ad Sales Deal With IDG
A loss for John Battelle's company.
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Political Web Sites Post-Election Not Doing As Bad As You'd Think
Which political sites are surviving the end of the election season? The Atlantic, Drudge, HuffPo.
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Huffington Post Hasn't Yet Raised $15 Million*
TimesOnline and PaidContent report that deal is done. Source close to company tells us they are "wrong across the board."
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Puppycam Livestream: 4 Million Viewers
Finally the world discovers how to make a global live streaming mega-hit. Low production costs, too!
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New York Times (NYT) October Ghastly
Slashing the dividend was a good first step, but it's not enough. Time to sell assets and cut more costs--before it's too late.
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Google Considers Buying Chrome Market Share (GOOG)
Google could be putting its muscle behind Chrome: It's thinking about paying PC makers to pre-install the browser on new computers.
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TechCrunch Ad Rates Slashed 35%
The recession slams online tech advertising.
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Facebook Gets SEC Stock Exemption To Keep Hiring
Facebook won't have to disclose financial results after it reaches 500 shareholders, BusinessWeek discovers. No update on fundraising, though.
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Exclusive: Why Reuters Left Second Life, And How Linden Lab Can Fix It
Is Second Life dying? No, but the buzz is gone. Here's what Linden Lab needs to do.
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Yahoo Dumps European Shopping Site On Private Equity Firm (YHOO)
Yahoo sells Kelkoo for reportedly less than €100 million. It paid €475 million for it in 2004.
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LIVE: BlackBerry Storm Twitter (RIMM)
Gearheads chime in with their first impressions -- and reports on how long the lines are.
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Disney (DIS) Capital Backing Chinese Pirates Who Rip Off Disney
Why pay for a Disney DVD when you can watch stolen movies for free on Disney-backed 56.com?
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BlackBerry Storm Lines Boost RIM Shares (RIMM)
As people wait in the cold to buy the new BlackBerry, Research In Motion is up 6% on the day.
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New York Times (NYT) Now Losing Business To Wall Street Journal
Murdoch's kill-the-New-York-Times plan appears to be working: Luxury advertisers are defecting to the Wall Street Journal.
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Yahoo Staffer Launches Management Buyout
We're thrilled to announce our Yahoo turnaround plan!
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Twitter's New MVP: Following Shaq Is Fun
We don't want to jinx it, but the fact that an NBA player appears to be enjoying Twitter can't be bad for its hopes of mainstream adoption.
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Apple's iPhone Catches Up To Google 'GPhone' With Street View Maps (AAPL)
Another free time waster for iPhone owners.
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BlackBerry Fans Line Up For Storm (RIMM)
Not as crazy as iPhone day, but proof that the new BlackBerry will have a fan club.
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Verizon To Obama: Sorry For Looking At Your Cellphone Account (VZ)
Not his infamous BlackBerry, just an old flip phone. But still creepy.
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Google Lets You Roll Your Own Search Results (GOOG)
Could help push Google's search market share closer to 80%: "Customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results."
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The New York Times (NYT) Slashes Dividend
The Sulzbergers are going to feel this one.
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Microsoft: $20 Billion Of Cash Not Enough, So We're Borrowing More (MSFT)
What does it need the money for? Acquisitions? World domination? Or just to buy back boatloads of stock?
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