Facebook Gives Its Ads a Boost, Using Your Photos

The world’s biggest photo-sharing service decides to make some money from all that sharing. Good timing!

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The Internet Hasn’t Killed the Radio Star: Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman’s Full Dive Into Media Interview

The guy who helped build MTV, then AOL, is now running a radio giant in an Internet age. Why?
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Spotify Dollars Boost Warner Music, but Not as Much as iTunes

Streaming music services are growing quickly. But, for big music, digital still means downloads.
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News Corp.’s PhoneGate Tab Keeps Rising

News Corp. says investigations into the PhoneGate scandal cost it $87 million in the last quarter. That’s on top of $17 million in legal/advisory fees in the previous quarter, plus a $91 million restructuring charge the company took when it shuttered the News of the World. The media conglomerate, which owns this Web site, reported adjusted earnings of $0.39 a share and revenue of $8.98 billion; Wall Street had been expecting $0.34 a share and $8.94 billion.

Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Is Still Standing: The Full Dive Into Media Interview (Video)

Hulu isn’t supposed to be a success. And Jason Kilar isn’t supposed to have a job. But it is, and he does. So what’s next?
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Time Warner Beats Q4 Estimates

Media giant Time Warner turned in a Q4 report card that beat Wall Street’s expectations, generating adjusted earnings of $0.94 per share on revenue of $8.2 billion. Analysts had expected $0.87 per share and $8.1 billion. Revenue was up 5 percent on the year.

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Facebook Buddies Up to Marketers at New York Event

Want to know more about Facebook’s ad plans in advance of its IPO? You may get a bit of insight at the end of the month. The social network is planning a half-day program geared toward marketers, which it will host at New York’s Museum of Natural History. Facebook says COO Sheryl Sandberg will kick off the program, which will include “inspirational breakout sessions” and a chat with an unnamed “esteemed guest.”

Neil Young, the Donkey and Digital Music: The Full Dive Into Media Interview (Video)

Neil Young explains why today’s music sounds awful, why Steve Jobs agreed with him, and what he wants to do to fix the problem.
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Flingo Gets $7 Million for a Second-Screen Bet

Ashwin Navin used to run BitTorrent. Now he’s making another stab at video, this time with help from August Capital.
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Meet Spongecell, a Profitable Ad Tech Company With $10 Million in New Funding

The start-up specializes in “rich media” Web ads, which isn’t a new idea. But Google’s Eric Schmidt liked it last year, and Safeguard Scientifics likes it, too.
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: The Full Dive Into Media Interview (Video)

“We’re in the media business, but we’re not necessarily a media company.”
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Verizon Teams With Redbox for a Netflix-Style Video Service

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Coliloquy Steams Up Interactive E-Books (Video)

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Facebook’s Ad Business Is a $3 Billion Mystery

NBC Puts the Super Bowl on the Web Because It Thinks You’ll Watch It on TV

BuzzFeed Bulks Up Again, With a Tech Section Run by Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan

SnagFilms Grabs $7 Million to Share Indie Movies Online

Ah, So That’s What You’re Supposed to Do With Foursquare!

Like Sports on Cable? Pay Up. Don’t Like Sports on Cable? Pay Up, Anyway.

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For iPad and Mobile Devices, a ‘Port’ out of the Norm

Walt reviews a special flash drive that can transfer and stream files to popular mobile devices without standard USB ports.

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A Textbook Case of iPad Fun With Studying

Katie looks at the new iBooks 2 app which offers enhanced educational textbooks that are, for now, focused on high-school students.

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@digiphile @jayrosen_nyu that’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.

— Dick Costolo, via Twitter, in response to a tweet by Alex Howard wondering whether Twitter would participate in Wikipedia’s Jan. 18 SOPA blackout