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

Here’s how your monthly cable bill gets split up. Spoiler: Disney and ESPN get a really big chunk.


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130,000 Time Warner Cable Subscribers Go Missing. To Find Them, You Might Ask Verizon and AT&T.

It’s possible most of Time Warner Cable’s video losses stem from savvy folks like yourself, who cut the cord and get their TV over the Web. But it’s not that likely.
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Netflix Doesn’t Want to Compete With Cable, Hulu, iTunes or GameFly. But HBO …

Reed Hastings make his case, again: We’re just another cable TV network, and people seem to like that just fine.
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AT&T Generates 20 Percent of Apple’s iPhone Sales

AT&T used to be the only carrier in the world that offered iPhones. Five years later, it still accounts for a big chunk of sales.
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Rhapsody Arrives in U.K. and Germany Via Napster Deal

Streaming music service Rhapsody, which has only been available in the U.S. for the last 11 years, has finally made it to Europe. The service has finished a deal to buy one-time competitor Napster’s operations in the U.K. and Germany; last fall, Rhapsody bought Napster’s U.S. assets. Rhapsody competitor Spotify isn’t in Germany yet, but industry sources expect that to change soon.

Netflix Bounces Back With a Q4 Beat, but Says Amazon Is Coming

Reed Hastings’s numbers are much better than Wall Street expected. But he warns that he won’t turn a profit in 2012.
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Social Ad Guys 33Across Buy Copy/Paste Guys Tynt

An ad tech linkup that makes sense.
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New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Has Big Plans, but Can’t Tell You About Them

In the meantime, you’ve got to be comfortable with the fact that he has plans.
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Yahoo’s Q4 Limps In Close To Wall Street’s Expectations

A little low on revenue, but that’s par for the course.
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Gannett Buys Big Lead Sports Owner Fantasy Sports Ventures

Gannett has bought Fantasy Sports Ventures, a Web sports network best known for its Big Lead Sports site. Gannett invested in Fantasy Sports back in 2008.
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Twitter While You Watch TV? Bluefin Labs Is Watching.

And the marketing start-up has just raised another $12 million. Think about that the next time you fire off a comment during an NFL game.
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Meredith Set to Buy Allrecipes From Reader’s Digest (Updated)

Listen Up! Neil Young Joins Dive Into Media Next Week.

Digital Music Sales Grow Worldwide, but Big Music Still Frets About Pirates

Publisher Terry McGraw on Steve Jobs and Digital Textbooks: “This Was His Vision”

Google Points to FX After Revenue Miss; Analysts Harp on CPC

Apple’s New Math. Or: Why a $15 E-Book Equals a $75 Paper Book.

Apple Unveils iPad Textbook Plan

CliffsNotes for Apple’s Education Event

Yawn — And Get Ready for Another Giant Quarter From Google

Grooveshark Fights a Copyright Lawsuit by Chasing After Anonymous Commenters

Hey, Where’d My Web Ad Go?

Jerry Yang Leaves Yahoo

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Personal Technology

Real Bonding With Family Around the TV Via Skype

Tely Labs’ telyHD turns Skype video chats into room-size experiences, involving whole families or groups of friends on each end—seeing each other, chatting and sharing photos in high definition using TVs instead of computers.

The Digital Solution by Katherine Boehret

App Makes Readers’ Thoughts an Open Book

Katie looks at Subtext, a free iPad app designed to enable and encourage conversations among readers within digital books themselves.

Mossberg’s Mailbox

Track Changes on an iPad

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