Yahoo’s Bid for Hulu in $600M to $800M Range — Even as It Preps Other Big Deals in Mobile and Communications

Get ready for a very noisy game of musical chairs over the premium video site. Meanwhile, Mayer is still shopping for deals.
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The Wall Street Journal Signs Up for Apple’s Subscription Service

One of the very last big holdouts now sees things Apple’s way.
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Exclusive: Digital Chief Jon Miller Leaving News Corp.

His departure brings into focus the fate of News Corp.’s overall digital strategy in an upcoming new structure.
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Exclusive: Could Jon Miller’s Digital Future at News Corp. Include a New Investment Fund?

Now that the company is being cleaved in two, it’s hard to imagine where Miller would land in either new entity.
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Eric Schmidt Backs #waywire, a Media Site for Teens That Is Part Twitter, Part YouTube

The founding team of #waywire includes media executives Nathan Richardson and Sarah Ross and Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker.
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SmartMoney Chops Its Dead-Tree Version

After 20 years on the newsstand, SmartMoney will end print publication with its September issue and go all digital. Dow Jones, which owns the site (and this one as well), said the print publishing schedule just couldn’t keep up with volatile market news.

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Dow Jones President Todd Larsen Resigns

The president of Dow Jones & Co., Todd Larsen, resigned Tuesday after more than two years on the job and 13 years at the company. Dow Jones is the unit of News Corp. that publishes The Wall Street Journal.

High Five to AllThingsD.com — Happy Birthday to Us

No presents but your presence, dear readers.
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Former Dow Jones Digital Boss Gordon McLeod Lands at Krux

Gordon McLeod, the former head of Dow Jones’s digital publications, has a new job at an ad tech start-up. He’s now president at Krux, a two-year-old “data management platform” that helps publishers control “cookie” data that tracks Web surfers’ movements. Last fall, Krux raised $11 million in a round led by Accel and IDG. McLeod left News Corp.’s Dow Jones, where he oversaw business operations for multiple sites, including this one, in 2010.

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Dow Jones Names Bloomberg’s Lex Fenwick as CEO

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.