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AOL... Getting prepped for sale?

adhurl.com     3 hrs ago   44 related          

According to a mid-July memo AOL is doing a bunch of housekeeping that will see a number of services shot behind the woodshed -- among them media-sharing site Bluestring, Xdrive online storage, the AOL Pictures photo-sharing...                

XM-Sirius: Land Mines Aplenty (at BusinessWeek)

yahoo.com     51 mins ago   3 related          

While regulators dithered over whether to approve the deal, competition accelerated and the economy slumped A lot can happen in 17 months, especially when it comes to the digital music landscape. In the stretch between when...                

Charles Z. Wick: USIA director whose task was to 'tell America's story to the world'

independent.co.uk     yesterday          

Charles Z. Wick was the key figure in the revival of America's public diplomacy during the Reagan years. A close friend of the president, from 1981 to 1989 he directed the United States Information Agency (USIA) which was the...                

Redlasso halts blogger service amid lawsuit

reuters.com     yesterday   24 related          

NEW YORK (Reuters) - News video-sharing site Redlasso said on Friday it will suspend its video search and clipping service for bloggers as it defends against a copyright infringement lawsuit filed this week by NBC and Fox News...                

Microsoft looks to Facebook to expand Live Search

computerworld.com     yesterday   95 related          

Some question whether integrating Live Search into Facebook will boost flagging engine July 25, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft yesterday announced that it is expanding its banner advertising agreement with Facebook Inc. to...                

Mortgage industry gets a grilling in Washington

cnn.com     yesterday   4 related          

A House committee probes just how much lenders and loan servicers are doing to keep troubled borrowers in their homes. A key House committee was set to grill home lenders and housing advocates on Friday about mortgage industry...                

Stan Lee to make a cameo in new 'X-Men' movie

charlotte.com     yesterday   40 related          

The creator of "X-Men" bumped into Wolverine at Comic-Con.After happy introductions between Stan Lee and Hugh Jackman, the actor announced that Lee would make a cameo in the upcoming 20th Century Fox movie "X-Men Origins:...                

Red Lasso closes video search after being sued

news.com     yesterday   1 related          

File this one under inevitable. RedLasso, which announced the closure in a statement on Friday, recorded TV shows and then indexed clips so users could find, pull, and embed them on other Web sites. They did so without...                

ET Phones It In (at Minyanville.com)

yahoo.com     yesterday   1 related          

As leveraged assets go down in value, the leverage multiples go up. Adding to that multiple is the falling dollar and the fact that these assets are in reality debt deposits, not cash deposits, that were passed on in different...                

Ad Industry Roundup: Online Video; iPhone; .Fox Networks; Amex; AOL (paidContent.org)

yahoo.com     yesterday   1 related          

Friday July 25, 9:58 am ET By David Kaplan -- Professional video CPMs to grow faster than user-gen : The hope for user-gen video to effectively compete with professionals is dashed in a report by the Diffusion Group. The group...                

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