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TV, music or Facebook: Your age determines your daily entertainment [Infographic]
Different generations of media consumers have been shown to digest different types of content at different times of day. Depending on the age demographic, media can use the following information to target which types of users they hope to market to.
In a ...
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Watch These Puppets Explain Everything Worth Knowing About TV Ratings [Video]






You've heard of Nielsen ratings. You're pretty sure it involves a box. Heck, you even know what a "time-shift" is. But you have never, ever had the veil of ratings secrecy pulled back so completely. Or w...
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It's Called Google Propeller and It's Aimed at Flipboard (and Facebook Too, Natch)
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google.

Earlier today, well-known digerati dude Robert Scoble posted on his social feed on Google+ that the search giant was working on a social and news reader.
“I heard from someone working with Google...
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Viral Video: The Pig With the Froggy Tattoo

This is a very clever spoof trailer for the upcoming Muppets move, in which it channels a very overwrought one for another film, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”
I love me some Muppets.
The revival of the longtime classic will be in theater...
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Chegg Buys Zinch in Another Move Toward a "Social Education Platform"

Chegg — best known for online rentals of textbooks to college students — said it has just bought Zinch, a start-up that links high school students and college recruiters.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The purchase of the San Francisco...
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Papercut for iPad turns ebooks into multimedia experiences with audio, video and animations
While most tablet-based reading apps are designed to replicate traditional paper-based books on a screen, Papercut, new from Sweden and UK-based UsTwo, aims to enhance the experience with audio, video, images and animations that complement the text and he...
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Viral Video: Gimme That Old-Timey Journalism

Here is a very funny piece from cable television comedy show, “The Colbert Report,” about a reporter from Georgia.
It’s hard to explain why it’s so funny, but it is a perfect send-up of the reporting process. The story: “Man...
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Loeb on Yahoo Board: I've Looked at Clowns From Both Sides Now

And you thought former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz could lay into the Yahoo board with some zingers, including the not-used-enough “doofuses” insult.
Time to meet Third Point’s Daniel Loeb, the smack-tastic hedge fund manager who has bought u...
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Mr. Ballmer's Wild Ride! Microsoft Execs Will Address the Wall Street Suits Today.

Later this morning, I will scramble the private ATD jet to make my way down south to Anaheim for Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting.
That’s right: A bunch of Wall Street types, asking not very challenging questions of top Microsoft ...
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Yahoo for Sale: Possible Bidders Circling -- Including Marc Andreessen -- as Board Pressure Mounts

A range of major players interested in acquiring all or a large piece of Yahoo have been prepping possible bids and have been in touch with the Internet giant’s board over the last several days.
While Yahoo has publicly said it was not for sale, ac...
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Liveblogging the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2011: It's a Windows World After All!

AllThingsD‘s Ina Fried and I are being held hostage by nefarious Microsoft PR chieftain Frank Shaw in a soul-sapping ballroom in Anaheim, Calif. — within spitting distance to Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World After All”...
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The Guardian Launches in America
The much-respected UK based site The Guardian has stepped onto American soil. Today, The Guardian unveils its first U.S. site, GuardianNews.
“It’s the first tiny step in our bid to improve the Guardian website for US users, and marks the begin...
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As Yahoo Board Meets Tomorrow, Investors Ready Thumbscrews

The Yahoo board will be meeting in Silicon Valley tomorrow, to discuss a wide range of troublesome issues facing the troubled Internet giant.
Meanwhile, several sources said, even more private equity investors are weighing making major investments in the...
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The Winning Apps of New York’s First Hackday.tv
This past weekend, Shelby.tv, a startup born at Techstars and General Assembly hosted New York’s first ever video hackathon: Hackday.tv. In case you haven’t yet used Shelby, it’s like watching TV or gazing into a magic ball of all the vi...
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CEO – Ave Maria

Ave Maria (Sharapova)!











Eric Berglund, of Tough Alliance, is developing further his muted electro solo project, ceo.
Like me as a kid, ceo has been getting into the tennis lately.
He’s been so inspired that he posted this ode to Russian s...
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Even More AsiaD Speakers: Yahoo's Yang, HTC's Wang, Samsung's Woo and More!

With AsiaD just a little over a month away, Walt Mossberg and I are adding even more speakers to the list, for what we hope will be an awesome event in Hong Kong.
Taking place from October 19-21, the conference line-up is already impressive with a mix of...
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Viral Video: Seth MacFarlane Roasts Charlie Sheen

I am not one for celebrity roasts, but I am looking forward to this Comedy Central skewering of Charlie Sheen.
Since his character was killed off on the hit television series, “Two and a Half Men,” Sheen has been making himself roast-worthy.
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It's Official: Arrington Out at AOL; Schonfeld New TechCrunch Editor (Plus Armstrong Internal Memo Too!)

AOL and TechCrunch founder and editor Michael Arrington have officially parted ways, almost exactly one year from the New York Internet portal’s acquisition of the popular tech news site.
He was replaced by longtime TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfel...
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Moshi Monsters’ virtual empire expands into music, ‘Lady GooGoo’ set to hit iTunes
There seems to be no holding back the growth of UK-based Mindcandy‘s social game for kids, Moshi Monsters. As we’ve previously reported, this thing is a phenomenon and now it’s getting into the music business.
Moshi Monsters is launching...
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Flipboard: 3.5 million downloads, 550 million monthly pageviews
If you had any doubt about what was happening with Flipboard, these numbers are likely to change your mind. When we first played with Flipboard, we saw it as a complete game-changer, and that has obviously rung true.
Speaking from the stage at TechCrunch&...
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Viral Video: Bye "Entourage" -- But My Curbed Enthusiasm Is for Larry

Viewers said goodbye to the boys on the series finale of HBO’s “Entourage” — in an unusually sentimental ender. Thank goodness then for the eighth season finale of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” from the increasingly hysterica...
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Viral Video: Hey Twihards -- Here Comes the Beginning of the End!

Here’s a short movie teaser trailer for “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1,” the one in which Bella and Edward finally marry. Unfortunately, she’s a woman in love with a sparkly vampire and she doesn’t love wha...
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AOL and Yahoo Are Not Talking About a Merger (Any More Than I Am a Yahoo CEO Candidate)

If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve.
I think that about takes care of it on the possibility of me becoming CEO of Yahoo.
And, according to at least 223 sources of mine at Yahoo, the same goes for AOL ...
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Jump from a printed ad to an Apple iAd just by taking a photo
Apple’s ‘advertising app within an app’ format, iAd hasn’t quite taken off in the manner it might have just yet, but a new offering from Switzerland’s Kooaba could help make the format a bit more useful by linking iAds to pri...
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Murdoch’s News International reportedly launching new online publication in the UK
It seems that two months after Rupert Murdoch pulled the plug on the UK’s News of the World publication, he’s looking to launch a new online and mobile only service dedicated to sports and showbiz.
As the Guardian reports today, 21 jobs have b...
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UK bookseller Waterstone’s to launch a Kindle competitor
UK bookseller Waterstone’s is to enter the e-reader market in 2012, as it looks to catch up with the likes of Amazon and Barns & Noble in the digital book space.
Waterstone’s is currently in the midst of an overhaul after it was bought fro...
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Exclusive: Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Joins Amazon Board

Well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur Blake Krikorian has joined the board of Amazon, according to several sources close to the situation.
Krikorian — who is considered one of tech’s most savvy execs with regards to video and media distribu...
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Viral Video: Yahoo and Groupon Update -- Live From ATD Global HQ (My Bedroom!)

Here is are two videos of an appearance I made on the WSJ.com’s Digits show yesterday, talking about both the situation at Yahoo and at Groupon.
And, by “situation,” I mean big, honking controversies.
In Yahoo’s case, it is the ou...
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My Picks for Yahoo's Next CEO -- Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?

The firing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz leaves open one of the bigger and more difficult jobs in tech — one that has taken its toll on many.
Nonetheless, rapper Snoop Dogg stepped right up to the Twitter plate yesterday, as soon as news broke of the ou...
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HuffPo Hires Google Engineer Dierks
AOL’s media arm, the Huffington Post Media Group, has hired longtime Google techie Tim Dierks to oversee its growing programming engineering team as SVP of engineering.
Dierks founded and developed Google Checkout, among other things, at the search...
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Yang Says "Not for Sale": All-Hands on Yahoo's Slippery Deck!

At a prequel for the many VPs of Yahoo to the all-hands meeting for all 13,500 employees of the Silicon Valley Internet giant that is taking place at 11 am, Yahoo co-founder, director and former CEO Jerry Yang told the group the company was “not fo...
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Viral Video: I Finally Get the Taiwan Treatment -- Paintballing the CrunchFund Wizard

I cannot express my delight at finally getting to appear in a CGI news video by Next Media Animation, in a segment about the CrunchFund controversy.
In it, the New York Times’ David Carr and I attack TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington with paintba...
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The Guardian newspaper arrives on Android
The UK’s Guardian newspaper is now available on Android, and the good news is it’s free of charge.
The publication launched its subscription-based iOS app back in January, and whilst the mini iOS app version offers a selection of stories for f...
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Exclusive: Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Tim Morse Named Interim CEO

According to sources at the company, Yahoo’s Carol Bartz is no longer CEO of Yahoo. CFO Tim Morse has been named interim CEO.
The situation around what is clearly an ouster is uncertain, but Bartz has had a very rocky tenure in her 32 months at th...
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Carol Bartz's Last F%*& You -- Now Aimed at Yahoo Board
Here is the email that Carol Bartz, who has just been ousted at Yahoo, sent to the entire staff of the Silicon Valley giant.
It is, like her, a doozy, titled simply as “Goodbye”:

From: “Carol Bartz”
To: “all-worldwide@yahoo...
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Wall Street Likes Bartz's Firing -- Yahoo Stock Spikes on News
Yahoo shares are up more than six percent in after-hours trading, as news of the firing of its troubled CEO Carol Bartz got out (from here actually).
The stock is up to $13.72, up 81 cents so far, as you can see below. It will be interesting to see what h...
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Bring in the Suits: Yahoo Hiring Strategic Advisers to Plot Next Moves

Yahoo is preparing to hire investment bankers and other strategic advisory firms, said sources close to the Silicon Valley Internet giant, as it seeks to figure out what to do next at the company.
The board of Yahoo, which ousted its CEO Carol Bartz tod...
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Yahoo to Hold All-Hands Meeting Today in Wake of Bartz Firing
Yahoo’s interim CEO Tim Morse will lead an all-hands meeting for the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s almost 14,000 employees worldwide to brief them on the firing of CEO Carol Bartz yesterday. Yahoos can attend the 11 am PT event near its Sunn...
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Exclusive: Longtime Yahoo Front Page Editor Liz Lufkin Out

According to sources close to the situation, longtime Yahoo front page chief Liz Lufkin has parted ways with the company.
The departure last week appears to be related to a reorg by newish editor-in-chief Jai Singh, who used to run the editorial efforts ...
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As Yahoo Continues to Wobble, Investors (And Board) Eye Options

When Yahoo announced on January 13, 2009, that it had hired longtime Silicon Valley tech veteran Carol Bartz to replace outgoing CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang and turn around the company, there was a sigh of relief.
At the time, she presented a take-no-p...
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Give Me Back My Baby: Michael Arrington Trying to Buy Back TechCrunch From AOL -- But Would AOL Sell It?

Here’s another interesting wrinkle to the ongoing saga of AOL, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington and his nascent venture firm, CrunchFund.
Since the controversy erupted last week, Arrington has reached out to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, as well as ot...
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Conde Nast lets Reddit run free, at last
Reddit is about as traditional a company as TNW, so its long-term cooping under the Conde Nast aegis has always been problematic.
Back when the site did less traffic, it was plagued by financial problems; many saw it as a mini-Digg and treated with the ac...
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Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales calls out security follies of Julian Assange and The Guardian
Call Jimmy Wales an idealist, if you’d like. The very thought that humanity would come together and write an accurate encyclopedia on just about any subject you could think of takes more than a bit of idealism. But it is that same idealism that is n...
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Orange set to partner with Spotify rival Deezer, offer free music to some customers
Having announced pricing and plans for a September launch, French-based music streaming service Deezer is expected to ink a deal with UK mobile operator Orange as it hopes to tempt users away from its more established rival Spotify and impact its rivals i...
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Netflix Officially Launches in Latin America
As has been expected, Netflix has officially launched its online video streaming service in Latin America. In a blog post today, the company said: “By September 12, people throughout the Americas will be able to instantly watch a broad selection of ...
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How Market Fares After Labor Day Will Determine If Groupon's IPO Is Delayed -- Or Even Pulled (or Not)

No other recent Web 2.0 company has undergone more scrutiny of late than Groupon.
And that’s why some are wondering if — especially given the still dicey economic situation and the continued turmoil in the markets — the Chicago-based so...
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Beauty and the Geek: Gender politics in tech
The Next Web recently posted this article about young entrepreneur and founder of WIWT Poppy Dinsey. Now as a young woman interested in setting up her own business I found Poppy’s story inspiring. She’s young, she seems to know her stuff, and ...
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Daily Telegraph, National Geographic, Vodafone and others have DNS Hacked, sites redirected.
A number of major sites have had their DNS settings hacked today and many visitors redirected to a Turkish hacker’s website.
Websites including The Daily Telegraph, UPS, Vodafone, National Geographic, The Register and others are all currently experi...
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Scooby-Don't Doesn't Need Your Stinkin' Help Google+
Robert Scoble, aka my favorite wacky character in Silicon Valley, is asking Google+ to take him off its suggested user list. In a post on the search giant’s social networking effort — on which he is a popular figure — the man I have nick...
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Fortune's Lashinsky Penning an "Inside Apple" Book

Adam Lashinsky, Fortune magazine’s high-profile Silicon Valley reporter, will be penning a book titled “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — and Secretive — Company Really Works.”
An expansion of a well-read arti...
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