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| Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
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 10 Newspapers Investors Actually Want To BuyBelieve it or not, there remain investors who want to buy local newspapers. One buyer says newspapers just need to stop "spending on trying to find their way out" and "instead run their current good business." "I might be running head first into the buggy-whip business, but I'm not sold on the death of print quite yet," he tells us. (He's asked us to keep him anonymous because many of those deals remain under non-disclosure agreements.) So what does this investor see in the newspaper industry that the rest of us don't? Lots of room for improvement, for one thing. Read > | |
| No Raises For Top Google Execs Top Google executive salaries stayed put last year according to a SEC filing, which read in part, " In the first quarter of 2008, the [Leadership Development and Compensation Committee] and board of directors reviewed our named executive officers' base salaries, other than Eric, Larry and Sergey, and decided it was appropriate to maintain salaries at $450,000." The Googlers stuck with their $450,000 salaries include CFO Patrick Pichette, engineer SVP Alan Eustace, and top product manager Jonathan Rosenberg. Read > | |
| AdMob's iPhone Ad Business Exploding Mobile ad network AdMob has moved aggressively into the iPhone ad market, and it's paying off. In the last year, the company's iPhone ad business -- measured by ad requests -- grew more than 35x. Read > | |
| Bartz's Yahoo Surges To New High Remember when Yahoo's stock price broke $9 and everyone was howling that it was going straight to $6? We're not hearing much of that chatter these days. Read > | |
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A South Park-style, anti-censorship viral video rattles Chinese nerves. Read > iPhone Set To Launch In China? China Unicom's Shanghai branch Web site now includes an information page about the iPhone 3G. More evidence that Apple is gearing up to enter the world's biggest mobile market. Read > Why The WSJ Can Charge For Online Content And Other Papers Can't The Wall Street Journal's model of putting much of its content behind a paywall has left it better prepared to deal with the new media revolution than most. But don't expect most other print media organizations to be able to suddenly shift to paid content. Read > WebTV Founder Pitches New Game Console To Take On Wii, PS3, X360 Is there room for a fourth game console on the market after the Wii, X360, and PS3? Read > iPhone Developers Kit Still Missing A Few Basic Features Apple's iPhone 3.0 software adds more than 1,000 new hooks into the phone for developers. But it's still harder than it should be to make some very simple apps. Read > | |
 Numa Numa Guy Back In Geico CommercialGoogle Tweaks Search, Keeps Getting BetterSony Making PS3 Games Cheaper To CreateHulu Hiring To Take Its Evil Plot International | |
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