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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Mr. Lee had been president of ABC’s Family Channel, a cable network that experienced rapid growth recently.
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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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A biography of Norman Podhoretz and a history of the magazine he edited tell the story of the neoconservative movement.
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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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.

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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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 (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.

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.