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| Friday March 13, 2009 |
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 Tim Armstrong Named AOL CEOGoogle's head of US sales Tim Armstrong is the new chair and CEO of Time Warner's online subsidiary AOL. This is a surprising and excellent hire for a company in desperate need of one. It's also a big loss to Google. AOL CEO Randy Falco and COO Ron Grant will leave the company. Read > AOL Will Likely Be Spun Off As Separate CompanyAOL Fires Everybody In China, Site Goes Two Days Without UpdateWhy Ron And Randy Had To Go | |
| FBI Raids Obama CIO Vivek Kundra's Old Offices, Arrest 2 FBI agents have raided the tech offices of the District of Columbia's municipal government and arrested two. That's the shop once headed up by Vivek Kundra, the 34-year-old wizard tapped by Barack Obama to be America's first CIO. Read > | |
| The Arrogance Of Newspapers Is Astonishing In an article in today's New York Times, Richard Perez-Pena tries to imagine a world without physical newspapers, but doesn't get very far. We love (and subscribe to) our local paper, but find Richard's vision unimaginative and even a bit arrogant. Online publications aren't weak, they're just niche-focused. Read > | |
| Linden Lab Finally Cracks Down On Second Life Porn Second Life is about to get a lot less sexy. Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life, announced today a range of new measures meant to finally confine Second Life's sprawling adult community to a virtual "red light district." Read > | |
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The New York Times Company is so strapped for cash that it has been forced to put its Falcon on the block. How will journalism survive? Read > EA Calls For Lower PS3 Prices, Again Electronic Arts execs are publically jabbing Sony with calls to lower the price of the PS3 -- again. Read > Activision Playing It Conservative, Focusing On Growing Its Hits Activision's thinks it'll find growth this year by getting even more people playing existing gaming franchises like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and Guitar Hero even more. Read > Another Tech Exec Busted For Lying On His Corporate Bio Ex-con turned private investigator-slash-pastor Barry Minkow has made something of a cottage industry out of making sure executives really have all the degrees they claim on their corporate bio. The latest to turn up is Marchex COO Peter Christothoulou, who claimed a BA in Economics from the University of Washington, but never graduated. Read > Amazon Kindles Proliferating In The Wild We found ourselves among a group of 12 people yesterday in which no fewer than four (4) had Kindles (3 new, one old). The Kindle owners, moreover, were RAVING about them. Read > | |
| Apple Shows Off New iPhone Software 3.0 Next TuesdayCBS Brings March Madness To Apple's iPhoneTV.com Launches HD, Good Luck Watching ItAmazon Wants Cloud Customers To Commit Long-Term | |
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