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| Thursday, March 5, 2009 |
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 Facebook's New Real-Time HomepageFacebook will launch a new homepage starting next Wednesday. Its centerpiece is the new "stream," which is a real-time updating version of the current feature called the "News Feed." Before announcing the changes, Mark Zuckerberg talked about how much he admires microblogging service Twitter. Facebook also said it would make public pages more like user-profiles. Read > Microsoft To Enterprise: Please Consider Windows 7Alan Meckler, WebMediaBrands Inc. Fire 60 (Memo)Adobe: Sales Stink, Profits Fine | |
| Selfish Sumner Almost Sank CBS Thanks to a recent dividend cut, Pali Research analyst Rich Greenfield upgraded CBS to neutral in a note today. But Rich didn't do it without bopping CBS's billionaire chairman Sumner Redstone first, writing, Redstone "resisted other board members' desire to cut the CBS dividend for a substantial period of time, which jeopardized the well-being of CBS, in favor of his own personal financial needs." Read > | |
| Five Signs The Newspaper Game Has Passed Rupert By The Wall Street Journal sports section's lame debut this morning got us wondering: Has News Corp. chairman and legendary newspaperman Rupert Murdoch lost his touch? A bunch of recent failures seem to suggest yes. Read > | |
| Twitter: We Can Do What Google Can't Venture capital backer says search is the reason Twitter walked away from Facebook deal. Read > | |
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IBM begins the beta roll out of its "Lotus Sametime meetings in Second Life" tech to customers. Read > Win Passes To The Ad Age Digital Conference In NYC SAI has two free passes (worth $1,095 each!) to the Ad Age Digital Conference (www.adage.com/digital2009) in New York on April 7-8. SAI's own Henry Blodget will be joining Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook; Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures; Tim Kring, Executive Producer/Creator of "Heroes"; Chi-Hua Chien, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Shashi Seth, Cooliris to discuss topics including venture capital, social networks, search, mobile, and audience expertise. To win them, comment on this post. Read > ZillionTV: Web TV That Doesn't Make Sense The latest digital set-top box requires buy-in from your Internet provider. But most big Internet providers also sell digital cable service -- lucrative businesses they don't want to cannibalize. Read > Enough! Yahoo's Advertisers Don't Buy Search And Display Together Carol Bartz says Yahoo's advertising clients want to buy search and display advertising in one place. It's just not true. Read > Apple: Sales Layoffs Story Not True Is it possible that somewhere in Apple's ranks of 32,000, staffing has shifted around during the recession? Sure, we assume -- but Apple wouldn't comment on that. Read > | |
| Electronic Arts: Sony's PS3 May Fall Off The MapThe Wall Street Journal's New Sports Section: LameTwitter Used In Rescue Of Lost SnowboardersDisney Might Build Its Own Netflix, iTunes Rival | |
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