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Amazon Says It's "All Hands On Deck" As Cloud Troubles Enter Day Two

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 22, 2011 at 7:40 am PT

Amazon says it’s making meaningful progress in its fight to get its cloud infrastructure working again. Meanwhile, Sony’s Playstation Gaming network is down too.

MSN Strikes Another Local Deal: This Time With NBCU and Hearst

Kara Swisher in News on December 9, 2009 at 3:33 pm PT

MSN has struck yet another local deal, this time with NBC Universal and Hearst, to provide local news and information to the Microsoft consumer portal. The deal encompasses 36 markets in the U.S. and will provide 3,000 video clips per week, which will be integrated into MSN’s Local Edition early next year.

CNN Invests in Neighborhood News Feed Outside.In

Shira Ovide, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 8, 2009 at 12:30 am PT

CNN.com is investing in Outside.In, a start-up that feeds neighborhood blogs and other local news and information to the Web sites of newspapers, TV stations and other media. The investment, whose size the Time Warner Inc. Web site declined to disclose, comes as news organizations seek more local information about high school sports, eateries and social events, in which they see an untapped market.

Fwix Unveils Revenue-Sharing Plan for Hyperlocal Bloggers

Shira Ovide, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 12, 2009 at 7:47 am PT

An online news start-up is going where Google and other giants haven’t: sharing revenue with the people who write the news. Fwix, a one-year-old start-up backed by BlueRun Ventures, is one of a growing number of portals for “hyperlocal” news, a buzzword that refers to sites about schools, culture, gossip and other information on a neighborhood level.

More Local Heat: MSNBC.com Buys EveryBlock for Several Million Dollars

Kara Swisher in News on August 17, 2009 at 9:00 am PT

It looks like the local market is heating up even more, with MSNBC.com announcing the acquisition of Chicago-based EveryBlock. Sources said MSNBC.com–a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal–paid several million dollars for the “hyper-local” information site, which is up and running in 15 cities, including New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago and Boston. In June, Time Warner online unit AOL paid about $10 million to buy Patch Media, a platform that does deeply localized coverage of communities on a range of topics.