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Google’s Cable TV Lineup: A Wishlist

Don’t expect Google to break the bundle when it experiments with cable TV. But you could see some cool features, like a cloud-based DVR, and a programming guide that doesn’t make you want to scream.

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Comcast’s Netflix Killer Isn’t One Yet. But It Could Be.

Comcast won’t sell you its new Web video service unless you’re a Comcast cable subscriber. But it could change that overnight.
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Hello, Goodbye. That Will Be $1.29.

Apple and the Beatles have put out ringtones based on 27 of the band’s songs. Which is a good time to remind people that Apple’s iTunes store has had an unprecedented year-plus exclusive on the band’s digital library, which began way back in November 2010.

Resonate Raises $22 Million for “Values” Ads

Ad tech firm Resonate has a simple pitch: It says it can figure out what different groups of Internet users care about, and where to find them on the Web.
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Zynga Ad Exec Manny Anekal Leaves for Mobile Start-Up Kiip

Manny Anekal, who headed up brand advertising for Zynga, has left the company. He’s now chief operating officer at Kiip, a start-up that hands out “branded rewards” to mobile games players. Business Insider reported the move earlier. Prior to Zynga, Anekal had run ads at Electronic Arts and Massive, the game ad start-up acquired by Microsoft.

The U.S. Army’s Guide to Pinterest (Really)

Better than an infographic!
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Netflix, Whitney Houston and the Great Streaming Video Outrage That Didn’t Happen

That story about an evil Hollywood studio pulling “The Bodyguard” away from Netflix, so it could sell more DVDs? “Completely bogus.”
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ABC’s Apple Foxconn Factory Tour, Teased (Video)

Apple pulls back the curtain on its Chinese contractor.
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Wal-Mart Ups Stake in China E-Commerce

Online shopping in China is booming.

Lawmakers Target Google’s Tracking

Washington wants to know more about the Safari story.

Antennagate Ends, With a $15 Settlement

China Agrees to Increased Access for U.S. Films

Netflix (Still) Really Doesn’t Want Your DVD Money

Twitter Ramps Up Self-Serve Ads, With an Assist From American Express

Twitter + Robots = Instant Stories, No Humans Required

More Free Web TV Disappears: Some March Madness Games Will Go Behind Paywall

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s an iPad

CBS May Produce New Show for Netflix

Martha Stewart on the Web: A Good Thing. The Full Dive Into Media Interview.

NBC Reruns on Netflix Boost Comcast’s Bottom Line

Sony Apologizes for Whitney Houston iTunes Price Hike

A Very Special, Very Foul-Mouthed Valentine From Netflix

Dan Loeb Recruits Former NBC Boss Jeff Zucker for His Raid on Yahoo

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Dell Goes on Ultrabook Diet With Slimmed-Down Laptop

Dell’s new ultrabook is compact, well-built and speedy, sporting a good backlit keyboard and a bright screen. But it has subpar battery life.

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Two Joysticks to Beat Smartphones at Games

Sony’s PS Vita tries to offer almost everything, but game-focused features are still what PlayStation does best.

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As long as the newspaper was a bundle, no one ever had to care that people were buying it for radically different reasons. But once you go online, and people can unbundle things, where you can traffic directly to a story without going through the home page or any of the rest of it, suddenly what it — the individual choices made by individual readers come to matter a lot.

— Clay Shirky, on NPR’s Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan