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Artistdirect Leaves Nasdaq

Source: HypeBot
August 8, 2009

ArtistDirect, which went public in a blaze of unrealized glory, is voluntarily pulling itself off the NASDAQ stock exchange and stopping reports to the SEC. The company operates as popular network of sitest for music and motion picture news and an ad network that is currently ranked 5th in comScore's ranking of music sites. They also operate MediaDefender and MediaSentry which offer intellectual property protection services to motion picture studios and major record labels.

“The company's board of ...

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Google to Buy Video Compression Firm

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2009

On2 helps shrink video files so they can be sent more easily across the Web

Google says it plans to acquire On2 Technologies, a provider of digital video compression technology, in an all-stock deal valued at $106.5 million.

On2 helps shrink video files so they can be sent more easily across the Web, an increasingly important technology as the volume of online video grows rapidly.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Google, which owns the popular video sharing site YouTube, says On2 shareholders ...

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Cronkite Blunder a Revealing Look Inside New York Times

Source: Michael Ricci
August 5, 2009

Alessandra Stanley's many mistakes point to a double standard when it comes to high-profile writers. More of the Times' high level of self scrutiny is a step in the right direction.

I have to admit it would be fun to join the rollicking beat-down of the New York Times and Alessandra Stanley that has followed the chief television critic's egregiously error-ridden tribute to Walter Cronkite.

Wasn't the public fascinated, after all, to learn that Stanley and the nation's Paper of ...

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Singaporejazz.com Launches

Source: Michael Ricci
August 5, 2009

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White House Cyber Czar Resigns; Lets Not Replace Her.

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2009

File under: Good Riddance The White Houses acting cyber czar just resigned, with no permanent replacement in sight. Which is just fine. We can make more progress on the network security front without such a czar.

For starters, weve had reasonable facsimiles of cyber czars before to little effect. The studies have been done, the list of tasks complete, yet we continue to fail year after year.

Second, the cyber czar, like most actual royalty in the world ...

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Key Pirate Bay Cofounder Jumps Ship

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2009

Categories: Yo Ho Ho: Brokep Quits Pirate Bay. Peter Sunde, one of the four co-founders of The Pirate Bay, said Monday he is abandoning ship.

Sunde, the BitTorrent trackers spokesman, and his fellow colleagues each are facing a year in prison following their spring convictions for facilitating copyright infringement. They remain free pending the outcome of an appeal of their Stockholm convictions.

The departure of Sunde, known online as brokep, perhaps is the strongest indication to date that the proposed ...

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Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple Board, Citing Multiple Conflicts

Source: Michael Ricci
August 3, 2009

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has resigned from his post as board member of Apple, a position he's held since August 2006.

The announcement, made this morning by Apple, comes after the Federal Communications Commission said last week it would look into Apple's refusal to distribute the Google Voice application on its iTunes store.

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs, in a statement, said the decision comes as Google and Apple increasingly enter each other's sectors: Eric has been an excellent ...

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Apple, Labels Stir up Deluxe, Digital Cocktail

Source: PC Magazine
August 3, 2009

The mysterious music deal Apple is working on with the major labels is reportedly a digital music format known as Cocktail, which will bundle photos, videos, lyrics and other assets with an album's music. Downloadable music didn't kill the album cover. The CD did. By shrinking the size and visual impact of the recording industry's mainstay product—and then encasing it in plastic security packaging—the shiny aluminum disc marginalized the LP to a nostalgic memory. By the time the MP3 format ...

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