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Warner Bros. Buys Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes

Warner Bros. has acquired movie recommendation site Flixster, along with rating service Rotten Tomatoes. Time Warner’s movie unit didn’t disclose a price, but Kara Swisher, who reported on sales talks in March, reported that Flixster was looking for $60 million to $90 million. News Corp., which owned a minority stake in Flixster, also owns this Web site.


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Moore’s Law means that more and more things can be done practically for free, if only it weren’t for those people who want to be paid. People are the flies in Moore’s Law’s ointment. When machines get incredibly cheap to run, people seem correspondingly expensive.

— From Jaron Lanier’s new book, “Who Owns the Future?” excerpted on Wired.com