Nielsen Biz Selling Print, Online But Not Until December; Lachlan Murdoch Considering Investing

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paidContent.org: No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media (NBM) but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkelstein’s News Communications, paidConte (Read More)

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Topics: Online, International, Communications ...

Friday Wrap-Up: 'Your Screw-Ups Keep Me In Business' And More

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Submitted by mvndrvrt from Google Reader: Comment of the week goes to "Grammargirl" on Yow! 'This Is Why Recruiters [Are] The Most Hated Folks On Everyone's List', a piece about a recruiter who sent the wrong e-mail to the wrong person:This is why people hate INTERNA (Read More)

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paidContent Quick Hits 11.20.09

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paidContent.org: »  Five ex-Googlers are putting working full time on what they hope will be the next big thing, Brizzly. [LA Times]»  Hoping to be the Canadian Pandora, Listen.fm buys up the re (Read More)

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Topics: Future, Pandora, Intel ...

Babelgum Shutters 2 European Offices

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NewTeeVee: Babelgum is closing down its Dublin headquarters and an office in Nice, according to a report in paidContent, moves that could signal the end is near for the online video site.Babelgum says the cuts will allow it to streamlin (Read More)

News Networks: New Media, Main Strea Ming Web 2.0

Topics: Online Video, Online

MTV Postures Towards Outright Sale or Outside Investment for Ailing Rhapsody...

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The Daily Swarm - Headlines: paidContent:The relevant part: “to enable Rhapsody to operate more independently of either party. If these discussions result in a definitive agreement, RealNetworks may agree, among other things, to adjust the corpora (Read More)

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Topics: Music, Sale, Investor ...

Online marketingmedia firm quinstreet files for $250 million ipo... (PaidContent via TechNews AM)

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Submitted by mogston from blog: Quinstreet, the Foster City, CA-based vertical media and marketing firm that recently bought Insure.com and Internet.com, has filed for an IPO to raise as much as $250 million, according to its S1. Last month Quin paid $16 mi (Read More)

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Topics: Media, Marketing, Internet ...

A business model for tv everywhere... (PaidContent via TechNews AM)

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Submitted by mogston from blog: Adam Cahan is the CEO of Auditude, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based technology company that provides an ad platform for video management and monetization. He has also worked at MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA), Google (NSDQ: GOOG), NBC Univ (Read More)

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Topics: Business, Technology, Content ...

New directv emerges from combo with liberty entertainment... (PaidContent via TechNews AM)

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Submitted by mogston from blog: It’s taken years to unravel the tracking stocks and ownerships stemming from Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA), but the new, more-than-a satellite-company DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) is ready for its debut following shareholder votes combi (Read More)

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Topics: Stocks, Content, Tech ...

Aol wrestles with the value of putting its brand name on everything... (PaidContent via TechNews AM)

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Submitted by mogston from blog: Even before Tim Armstrong joined Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to take AOL independent, the company was mixing in new brands with the familiar acronym. He’s pushed that strategy even harder, to the point where the question is what (Read More)

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Topics: Aol, Content, Time Warner ...

Director, product management, ivillage general electric new york, ny... (paidContent Jobs via TechNews AM)

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Submitted by mogston from blog: General Electric (NBC Universal)/New York, NYiVIllage has an exciting opportunity for a strategic Director of Product Management with consumer marketing experience and excellent interpersonal skills. The successful candidate (Read More)

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Topics: Product, Management, General News ...

AOL Wrestles With The Value Of Putting Its Brand Name On Everything

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paidContent.org: Even before Tim Armstrong joined Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to take AOL independent, the company was mixing in new brands with the familiar acronym. He’s pushed that strategy even (Read More)

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Topics: Aol, Brand, Users ...

College admissions site myfit raises $1 million... (PaidContent via TechNews AM)

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Submitted by mogston from blog: MyFit has raised $1 million in a round led by VC firm New Enterprise Associates. The site takes the information a student enters (like GPA or SAT scores) and returns a student’s chances of getting in—and fitting in—at various (Read More)

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Topics: Tech, Raised, Vc ...

Ebay successfully sells skype—gets $1.9 billion cash up front... (PaidContent via TechNews AM)

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Submitted by mogston from blog: eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has closed its deal to sell VoIP service Skype for roughly $2.75 billion. The group of buyers—including Silver Lake, Joltid Limited, Andreessen Horowitz and Skype co-founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (Read More)

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Topics: News, Vo Ip

Mtv and realnetworks talking on reorg of rhapsody music jv; could include spinoffsale... (PaidContent via TechNews AM)

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Submitted by mogston from blog: This is not a surprise considering the continued decline of Rhapsody music service in the face of lots of new competition and the general malaise in the digital music market: MTV and RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) are talking abou (Read More)

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Topics: Music, Digital, News ...

With latest layoffs, ap hits goal of reducing payroll by 10 percent... (PaidContent via TechNews AM)

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Submitted by mogston from blog: The Associated Press’ layoffs this week, combined with earlier cuts, have trimmed payroll costs by 10 percent, the wire service said in a statement. The final tally of the layoffs was 90 news department staffers, the AP said. (Read More)

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Topics: News, Jobs

Mozillas revenue growth slows; no firefox os coming... (PaidContent via TechNews AM)

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Submitted by mogston from blog: Revenue growth at Firefox-owner The Mozilla Foundation is slowing. Chairwoman Mitchell Baker said in her annual “state of Mozilla” letter that the foundation’s revenue—which it generates primarily from its deal to make Google (Read More)

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Topics: News, Google

Ebook distributor smashwords buys online self-publisher bookhabit... (PaidContent via TechNews AM)

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Submitted by mogston from blog: Smashwords, which was one of the first eBook distributors to be have its self-publishing platform included in the new Sony (NYSE: SNE) digital bookstore, has acquired author community site. (Read More)

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Topics: Digital, Community, Online ...

eBook Distributor Smashwords Buys Online Self-Publisher BookHabit

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paidContent.org: Smashwords, which was one of the first eBook distributors to be have its self-publishing platform included in the new Sony (NYSE: SNE) digital bookstore, has acquired author com (Read More)

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Topics: Community, Publishing, Bookstore ...

Cnnmoney.Com reporter turner broadcasting system, inc. new york, ny... (paidContent Jobs via TechNews AM)

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Submitted by mogston from blog: Turner Broadcasting System, Inc./New York, NYQualifications: - Excellent research, interviewing and writing skills and ability to remain calm in a fast-paced, breaking news environment. - Some knowledge of business news and 1 (Read More)

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Topics: News, Business, Content ...

Cnnmoney.Com editor turner broadcasting systems, inc. new york, ny... (paidContent Jobs via TechNews AM)

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Submitted by mogston from blog: Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc./New York, NYCNNMoney.com, the business news web site for CNN, Fortune Magazine, and Money Magazine, is looking for an experienced journalist to join its team as an editor/online news producer (Read More)

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Topics: News, Tech, Jobs ...