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| Friday, March 6, 2009 |
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 Pay TV Survives Housing Crash, Hulu's RiseWith the housing market crash and the rise of free video on the Web from sites like Hulu, you'd think that the pay TV industry might have felt a pinch last year. Not the case. At the end of 2008, almost 80 million U.S. households paid for TV service from a top cable, phone, or satellite provider. That's about 1.5 million more households than paid for TV at the end of 2007, or about 2% growth. Will the industry grow again in 2009? Or will it lose customers this year? Read > NYC Startups: Want $200,000?Clearwire Still Planning Massive 4G ExpansionSumner Subpoenaed Over Midway Games Bankruptcy | |
| Obama Taps 34-Year-Old Whiz Kid As America's CIO During his tenure as CTO of Washington DC, Vivek Kundra, 34, moved to put government videos on YouTube and encourage staff to post to Twitter. Now Vivek gets a promotion: Presdent Obama tapped Vivek as the first "federal chief information officer." Read > | |
| Sony: iPhone Gaming Blows Apple may be increasingly touting its iPod touch and iPhone as a place to play games, but Sony execs are contemptuous of Apple's entry into portable gaming and what they call the iPhone's "snacking games." Read > | |
| How To Be A Startup's Sales Hero Pontiflex is a Brooklyn-based online advertising startup that, instead of charging its clients per impression or per click, charges brand advertisers per lead. It's doing well, says CEO Zephrin Lasker. He told us how it's done. Read > | |
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What's Google's next big growth driver? Its current business working better -- better conversion, more traffic, more advertisers -- Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Tuesday. Read > BlackBerry 'Niagara' On Its Way, Looks Good It's a cross between the Curve and the Bold -- a BlackBerry that Verizon can be proud to sell. Read > The 36 Biggest Brands, Celebrities, TV Shows And Media Names On Twitter There's this micro-blogging service called Twitter and even though Google CEO Eric Schmidt says it's "a poor man's email," everyone - especially online PR firms - feels like they need to be on it now. Read > Yahoo Mail Is One Third Of Yahoo's Traffic How important is Yahoo's email service? Extremely. It's the biggest property Yahoo has, as illustrated by this Hitwise graph. Yahoo Mail receives 36.7% of the visits to 80 top Yahoo properties. The homepage is 25.5% and Yahoo Search is 11.8%. Read > Amazon Gets Into Used Videogames Biz, Paints Bulls-Eye On Gamestop Things just keep getting worse for Gamestop. Toys "R" Us recently moved into the used videogame trade, and now Amazon is getting into the game with the beta launch of its Amazon Video Games Trade-In service. Read > | |
| Gaming Startup I'minlikewithyou Changes Name To OMGPOPBaseball's New MLB.TV Player Launches, Looks GoodTacoda, Real Media Founder Dave Morgan Back With Another Ad Startup The Best Stock In The World | |
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