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With Stock Close to All-Time High, AOL Tells Activist Shareholder to Go to, Well, You Know

AOL filed an investor presentation with the Securities and Exchange Commission tooting its own horn, in front of an upcoming annual meeting in which it is still facing a proxy challenge.
In a nutshell, readying to battle an alternate slate put up by Star...
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Fox sues Dish Network over ad-skipping feature Auto-Hop
Fox is suing Dish Network over its ad-skipping feature Auto-Hop, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Here’s the Fox’s statement it published:
“We were given no choice but to file suit against one of our largest distributors, DISH Network, be...
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Good Lord, I Might Now Want to Use Yahoo Search Again -- Product Dudes Talk About New Axis Browser (Video)

Yahoo introduced its new Axis browser tonight, with versions for the Apple iPad and iPhone, as well as plug-ins for the top desktop browsers.
The company briefed a media army on the product an and the consensus is that it’s very good. My favorite h...
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Global video site Viki moves into music, inks deals with Warner Music and other labels
International-focused TV and video site Viki has made a significant move into the music space, after it announced deals with a number of record labels and agencies, most notably Warner Music, SEED Music Group of Taiwan and Korea’s LOEN.
The expansio...
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Fandango becomes the exclusive ticketing partner for Moviefone
Two of the biggest names in movies, Fandango and Moviefone, have joined forces to bring an easier ticket purchasing experience to AOL’s Moviefone property.
The two heavyweights have been seen as the biggest competitors in the space, but it’s c...
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This Was Inevitable: Huffington Post + Oprah Coming

While it might seem as if Web content queen Arianna Huffington might soon launch a moon edition of her eponymous Huffington Post — perhaps HuffPo Lunar — the AOL-owned unit’s next effort will be an Oprah Winfrey section on the huge onli...
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Amazon launches ‘Never Before on DVD’ store, offers 2000+ titles that never go out of stock
In an attempt to revive DVD sales and also provide more choice for its customers, Amazon has today launched its new Never Before on DVD store, featuring over 2000 titles that have never been available on the format and will never go out of stock.
The new ...
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After a successful pilot with ABC News, Qwiki launches its new publishing platform for content creators
Currently, when you write a blog post or publish a story online, you’re limited to text, video embeds, photos and slideshows. Creating original video content is labor-intensive, often expensive. Meanwhile slideshows and text can be quite rudimentary...
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Former CEO Thompson Might Be Gone, But Internal Investigation Into ResuMess Still a Hot Potato at Yahoo

While former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson fades from the tech scene — besides getting jacked from the top job at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, he’s also just come off two tech board he had served on — the investigation over his hiring ...
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The Guardian’s n0tice launches Open Journalism Toolkit for publishers, brands, communities & developers
The Guardian‘s n0tice project launched last year as an experimental new way of sharing local news and community events. Now the platform behind it is being opened up as a toolkit that publishers, brands, communities and developers can use as part of...
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Viral Video: "Jaws" Guy Bites Mark Zuckerberg and "Eric" Brin at Webbys

If you love a celebrity getting all self-righteous on the world, especially the tech world, then here’s a big plate of Richard Dreyfuss for you.
He tsks-tsks all over the stage in this video of highlights from the 16th Annual Webby Awards, which to...
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Watch the finalists for this year’s Vimeo Festival + Awards
The second Vimeo Festival + Awards is fast approaching, celebrating the most creative and original films that have premiered exclusively online. Now, Vimeo has announced the 2012 finalists in all categories, including Animation, Action Sports, Documentary...
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Spotify launches in Australia and New Zealand
Only a couple of weeks after launching its much-awaited iPad app, Spotify has now opened its song-filled doors to Australia and New Zealand. In a couple of blogs that look to be all but copy/pasted, the company runs down its services and the pricing point...
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HBO GO now includes Latino content to expand its offering to Spanish-speaking audiences
HBO’s online site for all of your viewing needs, HBO GO, has announced the launch of its best content to expand its offering to Spanish-speaking viewers. By bringing “HBO Latino” to the web, the company will bring a brand new set of eye...
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TiVo adds new ways to consume content with dedicated mobile streaming services, access via multiple TVs
TiVo announced two new major products which will make it all that much easier and convenient for viewers to keep up with their favourite programming, both at home and while out and about.
The two products take TiVo content beyond the existing platform. Th...
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This Week in Media: From Internet Week NY to YouTube’s 7th Birthday
With the Internet Week taking New York by storm for the last few days, it has been yet another busy week in the media world. Here’s our selection of news and trends that can’t be missed.
Video rules the web – happy birthday, YouTube!
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Paper is the main problem of traditional media – and a moral issue
Do you feel guilty when you read a newspaper? You probably should, according to BuzzFeed’s co-founder Jonah Peretti, who has “a moral issue” with print publishing and its environmental impact.
Peretti made this controversial comment duri...
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How Pixar’s Toy Story 2 was deleted twice, once by technology and again for its own good
“That’s when we first noticed it, with Woody.”
“[Larry Cutler] was in that directory and happened to be talking about installing a fix to Woody or Woody’s hat. He looked at the directory and it had like 40 files, and he looke...
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The Financial Times predicts more digital subscribers than it sells print copies by end of year
By the end of the year, the Financial Times could have more digital subscribers than it sells print copies, FT.com‘s managing director Rob Grimshaw predicted this week during an on-stage interview with NewsCred‘s CEO Shafqat Islam as part of t...
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FindWatchShare: Revolver rolls out Facebook video-on-demand service in the UK and Ireland
UK independent film distributor Revolver Entertainment has launched a new Facebook video-on-demand (So-VOD) service at Cannes Film Festival 2012.
FindWatchShare reels in Revolver’s library of indie flicks, new and old, letting users search, share an...
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Vyclone: This collaborative video app is just what citizen journalists ordered
2011 was a tumultuous year for the Middle East, but the troubles also served as a reminder of the role technology can play in giving everyone a voice.
Live video-streaming platform Bambuser is one example of how citizens took the initiative and reported o...
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UK indie publishers Faber and Canongate to launch joint audiobook venture
UK independent book publishers Canongate and Faber & Faber are launching a new audiobook venture together.
As The Bookseller reports, Canongate will manage the sales and production side of the new co-publishing operation, with Faber offering up its va...
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Exclusive: Yahoo Finally Set to Strike Alibaba Share Deal -- Half Now, Then Half of What's Left After Eventual IPO

Yahoo is in the final stages of selling a large chunk of its stake in the Alibaba Group back to the company — in a complex deal that is set to include a multi-billion-dollar share buyback to investors of the Silicon Valley Internet giant and an eve...
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The King Is Dead, Long Live the … Whatever: Levinsohn's Management Moves at Yahoo (Internal Memo)

Here’s a memo that interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn sent his troops earlier today about some management switcheroos.
No surprise that ousted CEO Scott Thompson’s first big hire from his former job at eBay’s PayPal unit is gone — j...
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Banned TED talk wasn’t banned after all, and here it is, in all its 6 minute glory
All right, the story was almost too good to be true: A TED talk, on economic issues and income equality and tax policy, didn’t get put onto the TED site. Enter cries of claimed censorship. It made a perfect narrative. TED, the exclusive, expensive e...
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Hey Mickey, You're So Fine: Meet the Man Who Landed Silicon Valley's Hottest Funding Deal in Pinterest

There’s no question that every venture capitalist within 100 miles of Silicon Valley wanted to squeeze their khaki-clad selves into what had become tech’s hottest deal of late.
That would be to get a piece of the new round of funding for soci...
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Penguin partners with Zappar to bring augmented reality to Moby Dick and other classic novels
The day after we reported that Wikitude was taking its augmented reality (AR) tech beyond apps and direct to the mobile Web, we’ve gotten wind that AR platform Zappar has partnered with Penguin Books to bring a handful of classic novels to life.
The...
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Zeebox launches ‘Shout out’ and ‘Group Chat’ features to better connect UK TV viewers with celebs
One month after social TV app Zeebox finally arrived on Android, the second-screen platform has announced a slew of new features designed to better engage audiences.
Today’s announcement means that celebrities can use the app to draw fans into their...
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Netflix updates web player with a new design, better windowed support and streamlined controls
Netflix has updated its web player with a redesigned control bar and better support for small windows and advanced controls in full screen mode.
Among the changes:
The size of the controls now scales, making it easier to use the player on large screens, f...
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CBS hints it may yank content from Dish over ad-skipping technology
Dish’s bold move to help consumers skip advertisements on the TV screens is rankling the top brass of television.
Despite being difficult to track, and not too hard to avoid, television advertisements remain a massive business. Sure, gone are the da...
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Comcast rolls out Skype on Xfinity in Boston, Seattle today for $9.95/mo and 8 other markets this week
Skype is launching its previously announced partnership with Xfinity today in two markets, Boston and Seattle. The video-calling-via-TV service will also be available to Xfinity subscribers in Detroit, Indianapolis, Miami, Atlanta, Augusta, Chicago, Pitts...
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Maybe, this Facebook IPO / Coca-Cola story may potentially be possibly over the top

The impending Facebook IPO is a sizeable one. Scratch that. It’s fricking gigantic, that’s what it is. No wonder financial media worldwide are quietly slipping into frenzy mode. A little too deep perhaps, actually.
Take this StreetInsider art...
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What does it take for an over-the-top TV service to succeed in Latin America?
How to be successful with an over-the-top TV service in Latin America? That is the question some of the sector’s experts tried to answer yesterday during a panel at Streaming Media East in New York.
As you may know, over-the-top (also known as OTT) ...
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Drip.fm remixes music industry models with its new members-only platform
Convenience and belonging. Convenience and belonging. Convenience and belonging. Convenience and belonging. Convenience and belonging. Convenience and belonging. Convenience and belonging. These are two of the most evolutionary reasons why we’re nat...
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The BBC’s plans for “the first digital Olympics”? 24 simultaneous live streams across 4 screens.
The BBC has given the biggest indication yet of what its digital offering will look like for the London Olympics, and The Next Web was on hand yesterday to get a glimpse of the action.
Back in January last year, the BBC announced it was reshaping BBC Onli...
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Alexandria, Virginia, tops Amazon’s 20 most well-read US cities
Amazon has revealed the latest incarnation of its ‘most well-read US cities’ list. The ranking was determined through compiling data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in both print and Kindle since June 1, 2011.
As with last year’...
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Leave the Gun. Take the Cannoli: It's Ring-Kissing Time for Ross at Yahoo's All-Hands Meeting

At today’s all-hands meeting for Yahoo employees — in the wake of the dramatic ouster of its former CEO Scott Thompson — what pop culture icon did new interim CEO Ross Levinson use to loosen up the crowd?
Why a little Al Pacino from mov...
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Louis C.K. says that sites like Facebook and Reddit are “hurting folks”
Comedian Louis C.K. has been a bit of an Internet darling, of late. His irreverent style is a hand-carved fit for Internet culture, and his in-your-face attitude has carried over to how he markets his work as well. Today the comedian is back on Reddit, do...
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Yahoo's Parting With Thompson Will Be for "Cause" (aka CSLie)

According to numerous sources, Yahoo is claiming “cause” in its parting with former CEO Scott Thompson, related to the fake computer science degree on his resume.
Such a determination will mean the company is not obligated to pay him the larg...
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Russian torrent-killer Pirate Pay could stem the flow of pirated material online
If you’re fond of downloading material online, you might have a Microsoft-funded enemy on the horizon which is aiming to stop piracy by blocking torrents.
In a hat-tip to the world’s most notorious file-sharing site, Pirate Pay is a Russian cr...
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Here's New Yahoo CEO's First Note to Troops! (The Leaking-Internal-Memos-to-ATD Policy Remains in Effect As Usual)

Here is the first missive to Yahoo’s troops from new interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, which I obtained from 653 sources at the company. (Joke alert! Sort of!)
“Importantly, today’s announcements lay to rest the unfortunate and serious distra...
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Meet the Man I Call "The Hair": The Video Stylings of Yahoo's Newest CEO Ross Levinsohn

Over the many years I have covered Yahoo’s expected new interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, I have done several video interviews with him.
And, for my own amusement, I also have nicknamed him “The Hair,” due to his very impressive mane.
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Yahoo Officially Confirms ATD Report on CEO Changes and Proxy Settlement

Here you go on what I reported earlier today on Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson stepping down, being replaced by current global media head Ross Levinsohn on an interim basis, naming board member Fred Amoroso as chairman and director changes relate to the settli...
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Exclusive: Yahoo's Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion

Yahoo’s embattled CEO Scott Thompson (pictured here) is set to step down from his job at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, in what will be dramatic end to a controversy over a fake computer science degree that he had on his bio, according to multi...
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From falling Facebook figures to corrupt Kentucky cops, here’s the week’s media news in review
It’s Sunday today…this means there has been a whole six days of media news to catch up on. What do you do…take to your RSS feeds and Twitter streams in search for all the tidbits you missed? Or read on here to see a selection of the week...
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Does Julian Assange’s TV show pave the way for more high quality alternative programming?
As you may have heard, Julian Assange, editor of Wikileaks, has a TV show. There are four episodes available on the web now, so it’s time to take a look at what this is all about.
A quick glance back on interviews and statements from Assange about the sho...
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Heidrick & Struggles Slaps Back at Thompson's Yahoo in Blame Game Over ResuMess

And it just gets worse in the controversy over Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson and the circumstances around how a fake college degree could get onto his bio.
Heidrick & Struggles is slapping back at him for insinuating that the well-known headhunting firm ...
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Samsung and Nuance team up to create a better reason for shouting at your TV
Shouting at the television is practically a sport. Who can make it more than ten minutes into an episode of the Apprentice without some sort of outburst?
As we heard earlier in the year, Samsung has announced smart interaction for its ES8000 TVs, and now ...
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Total Film rolls out new ‘fully interactive’ iPad magazine app
Movie magazine Total Film has rolled out an all-new version of its iPad app, featuring interactive pages, full-screen trailers and galleries.
The UK-based magazine is a property of Future Publishing, which owns a slew of other music, gaming and tech title...
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Is He In or Is He Out?: Crunchtime for Scott Thompson at Yahoo

While he has only been CEO of Yahoo for less than five months, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is facing perhaps the most critical moment of his short tenure in the next several days.
According to sources with knowledge of the situation, the board of Yahoo is n...
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