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Yahoo seeks turnaround with $1.1-billion deal to buy Tumblr
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is attempting a bold — and risky — strategy to turn around the struggling Internet giant with the $1.1-billion acquisition of Tumblr, a trendy social blogging service popular...
Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Arts and Culture, Business, Marissa Mayer
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Google Play marks subscription music service for internet giant
Google Inc. upended the Internet with its search engine. It launched its own email service, made roads and highways easier to navigate, developed the world's most popular operating system for mobile devices and took a shot at Apple Inc.'s iTunes with...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Music, Pandora Media, Inc., Consumers, Music Industry
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Fox, Twitter team up to promote TV shows, sell ads
Fox and Twitter have entered into a partnership to promote the broadcaster's programs and help advertisers reach TV audiences as they discuss shows on the social network. Twitter Inc., which has established itself as the water cooler where America...
Tags: The Voice (tv program), The Walt Disney Co., The X Factor (tv program), Global Expansion, Mad Men (tv program)
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Will Twitter's new #Music app boost the recording industry?
Twitter Inc. says its new music service helps users discover songs and artists. But the music industry isn't sure it's something to sing about just yet. The #Music app recommends songs based on the artists Twitter users follow. It also shows what...Tags: Clear Channel Communications Inc., Moby, YouTube, Music, Computer Networking and Internet
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Will Twitter be music to users' (and the music industry's) ears?
Will a song be worth more than 140 characters to Twitter users? After testing out a new music discovery service with celebrities such as Ryan Seacrest, Blake Shelton, Ne-Yo and Moby, Twitter is clicking play on Twitter #Music. The free service will be...
Tags: Blake Shelton, Moby, Arts and Culture, Music, Amazon.com Inc.
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Tracking workers' every move can boost productivity — and stress
Second of two parts Phil Richards used to like his job driving a forklift in a produce and meat warehouse. He took pride in steering a case of beef with precision. Now, he says, he has to speed through the warehouse to meet quotas, tracked by bosses...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Arts and Culture, Hospitals and Clinics, Justice System, Media Industry
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Dedicated e-readers 'irrelevant,' say many publishing executives
Is your Kindle e-reader "irrelevant"? Yes, says a significant share of publishing executives. That's one of the most interesting pieces of news to come out of Digital Book World, publishing's annual e-reading conference, which got underway Wednesday...
Tags: Media Industry, Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle Fire, Book
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YouTube's top 10 viral videos of 2012 have 'Gangnam Style'
South Korean pop sensation Psy's "Gangnam Style" has become the most-viewed YouTube video of all time, with the infectious music video approaching 1 billion views worldwide. The wildfire popularity of the four-minute song and dance video, uploaded...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Rihanna, YouTube, Music, Justin Bieber
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Time Warner Cable, Blockbuster on Demand to launch on Roku
Roku, the maker of devices for streaming music and video in the home, bolstered its entertainment offerings with the addition of Time Warner Cable, Blockbuster on Demand and Fox Now -- among other services. The company said it has surpassed 700 channels...
Tags: Wii, Time Warner Cable Inc., Netflix Inc., Blu-ray Discs, Blockbuster
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Will SoftBank buy other U.S. telecom firms after Sprint?
In a soda market completely dominated by Coke and Pepsi, it wouldn't make much business sense to purchase Royal Crown Cola unless you also had plans to get your hands on Mountain Dew or Dr Pepper. I'm guessing Japan's SoftBank has just such an idea in...
Tags: Sprint Nextel Corporation, Verizon Communications, Telecommunication Service, Verizon Wireless, Consumers
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Cloud storage providers weigh in on Google Drive
This post has been updated and corrected, as indicated below.Google has made its latest move, launching Drive, as it angles to be the one-stop hub for search, Web browsing, social networking, and now storage and content creation. And it has the attention of the competition. Just Monday, Forrester Research released...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Storage, Business, Consumers, Apple iCloud
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Facebook offering tickets with Ticketmaster, ScoreBig, others
Company TownFive major ticketing services, including Ticketmaster, ScoreBig, StubHub, TicketFly and Eventbrite, are launching Facebook applications to be sell tickets to the social network's 800 million users....
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