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The NewTeeVee Guide to Playing WebM Video

July 31, 2010
By Janko Roettgers
The NewTeeVee Guide to Playing WebM Video

Google open sourced its WebM video format in May, and more and more applications as well as video vendors are starting to support the new format. However, how do you actually play back WebM videos? This handy little guide tells you all you need to know.
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ABC Names Paul Lee President of Entertainment Group

July 30, 2010
By NYT > Media & Advertising
ABC Names Paul Lee President of Entertainment Group

Mr. Lee had been president of ABC’s Family Channel, a cable network that experienced rapid growth recently.
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Investors Buy Disney’s Miramax for $660 Million

Investors Buy Disney’s Miramax for $660 Million

The deal ends a laborious bidding process that saw the label’s co-founders, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, fall short in their attempt to regain control.
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Turning Right

July 30, 2010
By By DAMON LINKER
Turning Right

A biography of Norman Podhoretz and a history of the magazine he edited tell the story of the neoconservative movement.
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Foreign Forces Transform U.S. Films

The rising clout of international audiences is a sea change for Hollywood. Foreign ticket sales represent 68% of the global market, and studios are using foreign actors and tweaking plots to lure viewers abroad.
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Disney to Sell Miramax

Walt Disney will sell its Miramax Films label for more than $660 million to a group of investors that includes construction magnate Ron Tutor.
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The SEC Slaps Citi for Concealing $43 Billion in Toxic Assets

July 30, 2010
By CJR

By Ryan Chittum So Citigroup misleads investors in 2007 about tens of billions of dollars of subprime assets it would eventually take huge losses on, and the SEC settles with it for $75 million. Citi shareholders (which very much include you a...
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Sara Haile-Mariam: ‘Essence’ Controversy Shows Just How Far We Have to Go In a Conversation About Race

July 30, 2010
By Sara Haile-Mariam
Sara Haile-Mariam: ‘Essence’ Controversy Shows Just How Far We Have to Go In a Conversation About Race

(Flickr / peiranliu)In 2006, I sat front row during a Jonathan Varvatos show at Bryant Park during New York's Fall Fashion Week. At the time...
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Hey Ash, Whatcha Playing is Awesome, Even If You Don’t Play Video Games

July 30, 2010
By Liz Shannon Miller
Hey Ash, Whatcha Playing is Awesome, Even If You Don’t Play Video Games

You don't necessarily need to be familiar with the subject matter of a spoof, if the execution of said spoof is good enough. Which is to say that even if you're not a raging video game nerd,Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin' is a delight.
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Foreign Forces Transform Hollywood Films

The rising clout of international audiences is a sea change for Hollywood. Foreign ticket sales represent 68% of the global market, and studios are using foreign actors and tweaking plots to lure viewers abroad.
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Focus Media Sells Stake In Online Ad Subsidiary Allyes To Silver Lake

July 30, 2010
By Joseph Tartakoff
Focus Media Sells Stake In Online Ad Subsidiary Allyes To Silver Lake

Three years after paying $225 million to buy online ad company Allyes, Chinese ad firm Focus Media is selling a majority stake in the company, which bills itself as China’s “largest online media service provider,” to PE firm Silver Lake. Silver Lake is paying $124 million to Focus Media (NSDQ: FMCN) for a 62 percent stake in Allyes.


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Disney Taps Lee as ABC Entertainment Chief

Disney named Paul Lee, the head of its ABC Family cable-television channel, to run entertainment programming for the ABC network.
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Lee Schneider: Media: Better Free Than Cheap

July 30, 2010
By Lee Schneider
Lee Schneider: Media:  Better Free Than Cheap

By allowing their content to be factory farmed writers are only hurting themselves. By posting their videos for free on YouTube visual artists are being economically blind.
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Microsoft’s Ballmer Stands Up For His Company’s Consumer Business

July 30, 2010
By Joseph Tartakoff
Microsoft’s Ballmer Stands Up For His Company’s Consumer Business

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is taking the stage at Microsoft’s analyst day to talk about the company’s consumer businesses, saying that “a lot of the issues we see in our consumer businesses are very much on the minds of the shareholders.”

That’s an understatement, considering that the lackluster state of Microsoft’s phone business and its position in tablets compared to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) have weighed on perceptions of the company’s innovativeness and have even led to questions about how much long Ballmer will stay in his job.


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Twitter Makes It Easier To Find People To Follow

July 30, 2010
By Joseph Tartakoff
Twitter Makes It Easier To Find People To Follow

Twitter’s latest move to keep users engaged on its site: a new tool that suggests other members users might want to follow “based on several factors, including people you follow and the people they follow.”  The launch comes as Twitter has taken other steps to make itself more accessible and interesting to members, including launching a guide on how to use the site, along with a new homepage that features an always-refreshing list of “Top tweets,” scrolling trending topics as well as mugs of popular Tweeters.


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