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The Breakfast Meeting: Facebook's 'Global Citizen,' and a Spanish Crossover Act
And network executives got a glimpse at the future this week, and they didn't like it: digital video recorders that automatically skips ads.
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Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Facebook's 'Global Citizen,' and a Spanish Crossover Act
And network executives got a glimpse at the future this week, and they didn't like it: digital video recorders that automatically skips ads.
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Morning Brief: Weather Channel updates iPhone app with all new design; AutoTrader.com claims over 1 million downloads; Dish's 'Hopper' has the networks fuming
The Weather Channel has been a frequent updater of its its mobile and tablet apps and this morning the popular network released an update for its iOS mobile app that introduces a new design.
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Portrait: Walrus
Specs Who Frances Webster, co-founder, managing director; Deacon Webster, co-founder, chief creative officer What Creative boutique agency Where Walrus offices, New York Seven-year-old Walrus, which formed from the ashes of Mad Dogs & Englishmen, has Amazon as its largest client. But it’s also known for stunts like a 2009 app for steakhouse Maloney & Porcelli that generated fake expense receipts so high-rollers could hide their pricey steak lunches after the Lehman Brothers meltdown.
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Facebook backers sell bigger stakes on strong demand for shares in IPO
Early investors in Facebook including Goldman Sachs and Peter Thiel, one of the company's directors, have increased the size of the stakes they're selling in tomorrow's IPO in the face of rampant demand for the shares.
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Confirmed: Pinterest is taking $100 million and will do e-commerce
Now two things are more clear about the fast-growing social pinboard curation service – a business model and a valuation.
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Ocean Outdoor in £35m management buyout
Ocean Outdoor, the digital and large format outdoor media owner, has changed ownership following a £35m management buyout, backed by LDC Capital, the venture capital arm of Lloyds Banking Group.
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Several brokerages stop taking Facebook IPO orders
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors who want Facebook Inc shares when the No. 1 online social network goes public later this week may have lost the opportunity. TD Ameritrade and Fidelity's brokerage arm both stopped accepting orders of Facebook shares as of Tuesday evening, according to representatives for each of the companies.
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Barely a Peep From New FCC Commissioners at Senate Hearing
The two new Federal Communications Commissioners, Ajit Pai (R) and Jessica Rosenworcel (D) had their coming out party Wednesday in an oversight hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee. It was the first opportunity lawmakers, regulators and industry lobbyists had to see how the two new Commissioners stand on major issues facing the FCC, from implementing incentive spectrum auctions to review of the media ownership rules.
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Software developer revives debate about whether journalists should learn to code
Coding Horror | Learn Code the Hard Way | Highgroove Studios | NPR | Esmoov This week’s debate in the software development community about whether everyone should learn to code shows that journalists aren’t the only… Read more.
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