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Dow Jones Names Bloomberg’s Lex Fenwick as CEO

John Murrell in Media on February 2 at 11:45 am PT

Lex Fenwick, a 25-year Bloomberg veteran and most recently CEO of Bloomberg Ventures, will become CEO of Dow Jones (owner, among other things, of this site) on Feb. 13, replacing Les Hinton, who left the company in July.

News Corp. in Talks to Hire Bloomberg Executive

Russell Adams, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on January 28 at 8:00 am PT

News Corp. is in serious talks to hire former Bloomberg LP chief executive Lex Fenwick to be the new chief of Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., according to people familiar with the matter.

Sony Unloads LCD Venture Stake on Samsung

John Paczkowski in News on December 26, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

Sony sells off its nearly 50 percent stake in its LCD manufacturing joint venture with Samsung.

NewsCred Raises $4 Million for Its Web-Based Newswire

Peter Kafka in Media on November 30, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Expensive content on the cheap: A start-up that licenses stuff from the likes of Reuters, Bloomberg and Forbes.

Facebook’s Zuckerberg and Sandberg Will Make Rare Joint Appearance on “Charlie Rose” Tonight

Liz Gannes in Social on November 7, 2011 at 6:56 am PT

It’s a rare joint appearance for the social giant’s top two executives, and their first times on “Charlie Rose.”

As U.S.-Listed China Internet Stocks Dive, Renren CEO Smacks Alibaba on the Way Down (And Gets Smacked Back)

Kara Swisher in News on October 2, 2011 at 8:35 am PT

As Chinese Internet exec Joe Chen of Renren snipes at a competitor there, there’s a bigger problem for that country’s Web companies.

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Advertiser Reveals Rupert Murdoch’s Daily iPad Numbers

Peter Kafka in Media on September 28, 2011 at 1:36 pm PT

The Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s once-hyped iPad newspaper, has 120,000 readers a week, according to a media buyer who works with the publication. An executive at Zenith Optimedia told Bloomberg that the 120,000 figure includes both paid subscribers and free visitors. That circulation figure, Bloomberg notes, puts the paper at the same level as the Toledo, Ohio, daily Blade. News Corp. also owns this Web site.

Amazon Finally Challenges the iPad, With the $200 Kindle Fire

Peter Kafka in News on September 28, 2011 at 8:07 am PT

The stuff you care about, via Bloomberg: $200, no Wi-Fi, 30-day free trial to Amazon Prime.

Tick, Tick, Tick, HP Board: The Time to Act Is Today

Kara Swisher in News on September 22, 2011 at 3:15 am PT

As Hewlett-Packard CEO Léo Apotheker twists painfully in the wind, it’s up to its directors to move quickly to end the latest crisis at the Silicon Valley tech giant.