Time Inc.'s InStyle Sets Up Shop at StyleFind

Remember when magazines were excited about launching Web sites, not iPad apps? Here’s a new e-commerce site from Time Warner’s publishing unit.

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InStyle Pairs With Groupon on Beauty Bargains

In its latest alliance with a major media property, deal-a-day service Groupon is partnering with Time Inc.’s InStyle fashion franchise on a three-day promotion offering half-price or better deals at editor-selected salons in six U.S. cities (brow tweezing in Boston, fake tans in L.A., etc.). Groupon has already run promotions with McClatchy in many of the newspaper chain’s local markets, and it announced a similar deal with Media General this week.

Fighting Words! Time Warner Says Comcast/NBCU as Dumb as…Time Warner/AOL.

Just in case anyone thought Time Warner had any lingering interest in NBC Universal, this ought to put it to rest: Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes just compared the proposed Comcast/NBCU deal with the disastrous one his company made with AOL nearly a decade ago.
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Time Inc. Boss Ann Moore to Troops: “Act Like a Private Equity Company…We Will All Get Through This”

The head of Time Warner’s magazine unit doesn’t give employees more details about the coming layoffs. Instead, she delivers a pep talk version–sort of–of the reorg memo she distributed last week: Suck it up, buckle down and get to work. We’re restructuring the company because the economy stinks, but we’re still a magazine company, and don’t lose sight of that.