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Justin Timberlake, David Fincher are a smooth fit in 'Suit & Tie'
In David Fincher's "The Social Network" -- the best studio film of 2010, whatever "King's Speech" partisans may argue -- Justin Timberlake was perfectly cast as a smarmy, cynical version of Napster co-founder and former Facebook President Sean Parker....
Tags: Ellie Goulding, Grammy Awards, The Social Network (movie) , Entertainment Events, Waylon Jennings
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'Side Effects' review: Soderbergh goes out with his usual style
*** (out of four) For anyone who struggles to focus their attention on a movie—that should include all 23 people who saw Al Pacino in last week's embarrassing “Stand Up Guys”—“Side Effects” is just what the doctor...
Tags: Stand Up Guys (movie), Catherine Zeta-Jones, Al Pacino, Drugs and Medicines, Steven Soderbergh
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Aaron Swartz, a casualty in the battle over the Internet and property rights
Aaron Swartz was a wunderkind, a gifted boy who became a remarkable young man. He created a Wikipedia-like Web app and RSS software when he was a teenager. As a college student, he co-founded the website service Reddit. But like a figure in a fairy...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Library of Congress, Justice System
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E-book reading jumps as print declines
Surging sales of tablet computers are driving a fundamental change in how Americans read books. Twenty-three percent of Americans age 16 and older say they have read an e-book in the last year, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center....
Tags: Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle, Apple Inc., Amazon Kindle Fire
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Social Media is Now a College Major
What would you rather do, talk to your friends on Twitter, or do homework? Trick question. Those are now the same thing, thanks to Newberry College in South Carolina, which is offering Social Media as a major for incoming students. And, with the blazing...
Tags: Social Media, Television Stations, Television Industry, Marketing, Tiger Woods
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Metallica leaves Warner Music with its masters, forms Blackened Records
Metallica has gone indie. The band announced on Friday that it has officially left its longtime home, the Warner Music Group, taken its master recordings and formed a new independent label, Blackened Recordings. All forthcoming Metallica projects --...
Tags: Entertainment, Music Industry, Music, Metallica (music group), Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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Future of Music 2012: A fight over Internet radio scraps
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- There were moments Tuesday during the annual Future of Music Summit where the conversation about revenue in the digital music industry sounded like a scrum over crumbs, a desperate fight over an increasingly shrinking pie. "There is...
Tags: Pandora Media, Inc., Consumers, Ron Wyden, Artists, U.S. House of Representatives
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Myspace tries another revamp with Justin Timberlake
AP Technology WriterNEW YORK (AP) — "Who am I to say I want you back? When you were never mine to give away." Those are the opening lines of a song that accompanies a "New Myspace" promotional video. The once-mighty social network is trying to stage yet another...Tags: Pandora Media, Inc., The Social Network (movie) , Media Industry, Twitter, Inc., Justin Timberlake
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Swimming in music's wake
Books and music go way back — at least as far back as the epic poets, whose tales of heroic deeds were sung to gathered Greeks long before they were stuffed between two covers for high school students. When singer-songwriter Joe Pernice signed his...
Tags: YouTube, Customs and Tradition, Fine Artists, Literature, Media Industry
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Rebecca Gates is back and 'totally over capacity'
Rebecca Gates found herself holding a bass guitar, an instrument that she can play in a pinch, at a 2006 recording session in New York with Willie Nelson. “I was pretty intimidated,” she says with a laugh. “I know Ryan Adams, who was...
Tags: Entertainment, Tortoise (music group), Music Industry, Music, Arts and Culture
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File sharing on Facebook? They're watching you for mp3s
Facebook is into file-sharing, don't ask me how -- i just figured out what "poking" is all about. And don't worry, I won't poke ya! Anyway, this is Facebook's response to what it describes as the most requested feature for groups. You can upload files of...
Tags: Social Media, MP3s
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Robb McDaniels of INgrooves dishes on the state of digital music
Pop & HissMusic and technology reporter Alex Pham interviews Robb McDaniels, CEO of INgrooves, before his keynote address to the 54th National Association of Recording Merchandisers, or NARM, conference this week....
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