The sale process of Cox-owned Travel Channel is heating up, as the first round of bids have come in: among them, the obvious names of News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) are …
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A year ago, Apple’s iTunes owned about 70 percent of the digital music market, and newcomer Amazon had just five percent. Today, Apple still has 70 percent, but Amazon has…eight percent.
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MSNBC.com has bought hyperlocal news and data aggregator EveryBlock for ‘several million dollars’
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MSBNC.com buys hyperlocal news site EveryBlock | Media | guardian …
Helienne Lindvall: No wonder the majors speak so highly of Spotify – they receive 18% of shares in the online streaming service. It’s justy a pity that artists won’t get to see any of this.
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According to Obama, the health -care pie will be sliced into more pieces, of equal or greater size than available now, for less money — all because government is so much better than the private sector at managing large projects. …
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RealClearPolitics – Too Many Holes in Obama's Health Plan
But they are trivialized when applied to Obama’s health insurance reform plan or the conduct of disorderly town-hall protesters. The burning of the Reichstag and Kristallnacht are not arguments against a single-payer health plan or …
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RealClearPolitics – Hitler and Health Care
Handmark, a mobile application developer, has hired Jason Ford as its VP of Games . In the newly created position, Ford will be responsible for ramping up the company’s games development and expand its presence in gaming globally
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Almost 30 years after it first aired, Carl Sagan’s cosmic travel guide still educates, entertains and inspires awe.
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DVD review: Carl Sagan's Cosmos | Science | guardian.co.uk
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has reached a deal with SoundExchange, which collects royalties on behalf of the music industry, to compensate artists and rights owners whose content is streamed on the web by public radio …
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Just as important, however, are the students themselves and their attitude toward education . If kids come to class motivated; if kids actually value what is happening in class, then all the rest of our efforts cannot fail. …
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