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Beijing levels 'porn' charge at Google in new web crackdown
Financial Times - 3 days ago
China's government has accused the country's leading internet search engines and web portals, including Google, of threatening public morals by carrying pornographic...
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Apple says hormones caused weight loss for Jobs
Apple sought to allay speculation about the health of Steve Jobs yesterday, with an open letter from the chief executive explaining that he was suffering from a...
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?Shutdown? was the alternative in Detroit
Reflections of a Newsosaur - 3 days ago
The decision to abandon seven-day home delivery in Detroit was not a bold strategic initiative but a last-ditch effort to save two failing newspapers, according to one former Gannett executive. ?The choice was to shut down or to try to salvage the newspaper,? said the former executive, who was familiar...
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FCC?s Martin: Wish I Could?ve Unbundled Cable
BNET Insight -
3 days ago
Broadcasting & Cable has posted an “exit interview” with outgoing Federal Communications Commission chief? Kevin Martin, and while there’s plenty to digest, one thing that stands out is Martin’s frustration that he wasn’t successful in getting the cable companies to “unbundle” their programming. Under unbundling, consumers would have more of...
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Lee auditors issue ?going concern? warning
With Lee Enterprises unlikely to have the cash required to make a $142.5 million debt payment due this spring, there is ?substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern,? according to its auditors. The statement is contained in multiple locations in the annual report the company filed...
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Management Speaks on AsianWeek?s Closure
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5 days ago
Following is the letter sent to subscribers by the Fang brothers, owners of AsianWeek — the largest English-language, Asian-American publication in the U.S. — which ceased publishing its print version yesterday: December 30, 2008 To Our Readers: AsianWeek has played a long and significant role in helping develop Asian Pacific...
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Viacom settles dispute over fees with Time Warner
Viacom, which owns the MTV Network, averted a blackout of 19 channels after reaching an agreement with Time Warner Cable over its fees for popular shows such as...
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Viacom and Time Warner Reach Deal to Avoid Blackout
Reuters -
7 days ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom and Time Warner Cable reached an agreement in principle on Thursday that avoided a blackout that would have prevented more than 13 million U.S. subscribers from seeing popular TV shows like "Dora the Explorer" and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."The two sides said in...
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10-K Watch: Lee Posts $879 Million Net Income Loss For '08; Online Ad Revs Fall 1.7 Percent
PaidContent.org -
7 days ago
Although newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) missed its self-imposed Dec. 29 deadline to release its annual report, the company did get it in before the year was out. Lee, the struggling parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, had good reason to wait until the last minute, posting a...
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NY Times, USA Today & SF Gate Gain in ?TOS?
BNET Insight -
9 days ago
As we’ve often noted here, one of the most important metrics for a media site’s importance is time-on-site (TOS). As a stand-alone metric, it is not particularly significant, but if it’s allowing a company to monetize content, either through ad page views, a free registration + demographics upsell, or a...
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