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The changing face of Hollywood

by Matt Bowman, March 26, 2010 | Comments

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Tinseltown is rearranging itself to produce bigger but fewer blockbusters.

Hollywood is coming out of hibernation. After two years of almost no deals, Warner Brothers is thinking of buying MGM for up to $1.5 billion, Liberty is looking to sell Overture for $100 million, Disney wants to sell Miramax for $700 million, and Media Rights Capital wants to buy Focus Features.So why all the activity? For one, big studios like Disney ...

Wordpress profiles powered by Gravatar

by Ronny Kerr, March 26, 2010 | Comments (1)

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Automatically granting its users fancier profiles, WordPress could be incubating a social network

WordPress, probably the most well-known open source blog publishing application, is turning to Gravatar, a little-known service that provides globally-unique avatars, to give its users a new and improved way of customizing their profiles.Previously, profiles on WordPress had been rudimentary and pretty unexciting."What if your Gravatar wasn’t just an image that showed up when you comment, but you could attach ...

Netflix streaming on the way to your Wii

by Chris Caceres, March 25, 2010 | Comments

	But don't get your hopes up, not everyone will receive access just yet Netflix announced on Thursday, Nintendo via Wii streaming functionality is on the way - oddly enough, in the mail. Why do I use the word 'oddly?' Well, what Netflix is trying to do is turn your Nintendo Wii into a device for playing back movies from its Instant Streaming service. So you may wonder, why is it coming in the ...
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Year-old YouTube EDU grows and grows

by Ronny Kerr, March 25, 2010 | Comments

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Partnered with over 300 universities and colleges, YouTube EDU advancing online learning

YouTube EDU, an educational video channel where schools around the world share content online, is one-year old today.The program has partnered with over 300 universities and colleges, providing content from ten countries and in seven languages. Some partners include University of Cambridge, Yale, Stanford, MIT, University of Chicago and The Indian Institutes of Technology. Offering 65,000 videos and 350 full ...

Zynga now selling game cards

by Chris Caceres, March 25, 2010 | Comments

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Social gaming giant now offers virtual currency at your local 7-Eleven

Virtual currency continues to expand into new territories. This time onto your local store shelves. Zynga announced on Thursday its users can now buy pre-paid game cards at several reatilers across the nation.An astounding 12,800 stores that is. Let's say you want to go buy a gallon of milk at 7-Eleven - well you'll find a Zynga card for sale ...

Congress praises Google for China decision

by Ronny Kerr, March 25, 2010 | Comments

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Meanwhile, potential business partners dropping left and right

It's been less than a week since Google made good on its promise to stop self-censoring on its search engine in China, www.google.cn, but the company is already experiencing the aftershocks of its decision: praise from the US government and loss of innumerable business partnerships.At the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, a panel lauded Google for its "difficult" but "right" decision ...

Android eats away at Apple's lead

by Matt Bowman, March 25, 2010 | Comments (1)

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Metrics from AdMob show that the dominant smartphone OS is slowly ceding ground to Google.

AdMob just released its monthly mobile metrics report. The company uses views of advertisements in the AdMob network (the biggest mobile network, stretching across all major handsets and operating systems) to gauge mobile usage trends. Some interesting results from the report on mobile usage in February: iPhone OS increased its share of smartphone requests from 33 percent in February 2009 ...

Digg iPhone app foreshadows site changes

by Matt Bowman, March 24, 2010 | Comments

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CEO Jay Adelson says the mobile application was built with upcoming new-and-improved site in mind

After months of anticipation, Digg’s mobile app has hit the iPhone. CEO Jay Adelson gave us a rundown on the app’s history and future. Given Digg’s techy demographic it took the company a lot longer than many expected to develop the app. Adelson said part of the complication came from the company’s upcoming site relaunch. Digg has been rebuilt from ...

Avatar Reality raises $4.2 million

by Chris Caceres, March 24, 2010 | Comments

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Startup adds another round of funding for its virtual world platform

Avatar Reality, developer of the virtual world platform Blue Mars, announced it's raised $4.2 million from venture capitalists including Henk Rogers and Kolohala Ventures. The startup says it has raised more than $13 million to date. The startup launched its platform Blue Mars back in 2009. It's a 3D virtual world, also categorized as a massive multiplayer online role playing ...

Lady Gaga blasts past one billion video views

by Ronny Kerr, March 24, 2010 | Comments (1)

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Just Dance, Poker Face, and Bad Romance help propel Gaga to the top of viral video charts

Lady Gaga, a pop sensation crafting her own special blend of catchy glam, and dance, is the first artist to hit one billion online video views, thanks to her three most popular music videos.Poker Face (374,606,128 views), Just Dance (272,941,674 views), and Bad Romance (360,020,327 views) combined give Lady Gaga just over a billion views, according to data from video ...

Facebook expands happiness index

by Matt Bowman, March 24, 2010 | Comments (1)

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World’s most popular site uses status updates to gauge how nations are feeling.

In October, Facebook’s data scientists began using status updates to create a rough measure of the happiness expressed by English Speakers in the United States. Now, the company is expanding its index to three other English-speaking nations: U.K., Australia, and Canada. “Measuring how well-off, happy or satisfied with life the citizens of a nation are is part of the Gross ...

Instapaper for iPad to launch on day one

by Ronny Kerr, March 24, 2010 | Comments

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iPhone tool that saves Web pages for later reading should be a hit on Apple's pretty tablet

Instapaper, an iPhone app that lets users download Web pages with a network for later reading, may very will be landing on Apple's iPad on launch day.Useful especially for those who know they won't have 3G, EDGE, or Wi-Fi access for awhile, Instapaper saves Web pages as text-only and presents the file in an elegant format for ideal readability. With ...

What about Google Apps in China?

by Chris Caceres, March 24, 2010 | Comments (1)

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With the search giant's recent bold decision, access to its Google Apps may be in danger

As you probably know by now, earlier this week, Google made a very bold decision to stop censoring its search services on its Chinese domain. It redirected everybody trying to access www.google.cn to its uncensored Hong Kong version, www.google.com.hk. About a day later, the Chinese government responded by censoring certain search queries, like any info related to the Tiananmen Square ...

Digg (finally) launching its iPhone app

by Matt Bowman, March 23, 2010 | Comments

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It's been a long time coming, but the functionality looks pretty comprehensive.

Digg is finally coming to the iPhone, and if the screen shots Mashable got their hands on late Tuesday are accurate, the app will be robust. Digg founder Kevin Rose first hinted that an app was in the works last year when he was caught playing with an early version last October before an interview with podcasters Arnt Eriksen and ...

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