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InStyle Pairs With Groupon on Beauty Bargains

in News on October 15, 2010 at 12:13 pm PT

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.

Another Googler Goes to AOL: YouTube Boss Dave Eun Replaces Bill Wilson as Content Boss

in Media on February 4, 2010 at 11:46 am PT

Former Google sales boss Tim Armstrong has brought a slew of former colleagues with him to AOL, but this may be his highest-profile hire so far: Dave Eun, who has been in charge of content deals at Google and YouTube, will replace Bill Wilson, one of the last high-profile AOL guys from the pre-Armstrong era.

A Boost for Joost in Hollywood, Well, Burbank

in News on June 21, 2007 at 5:38 am PT

Joost threw a party in North Hollywood (which is really closer to Burbank than Hollywood) Tuesday at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’s Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre for a small throng of Hollywood folks, most of whom looked to be about 21 years old collectively. (You can just imagine a big Hollywood muckety-muck telling [...]

It's (No Longer) Gray in L.A.

in News on June 18, 2007 at 1:02 am PT

I’m headed down to Los Angeles tomorrow for a few days on a reporting trip–I know, freakish, a blogging reporter or a reporting blogger–to see folks at Fox Digital, Move.com and others, as well as go to a big Hollywood-style bash for online video site Joost tomorrow night. There will be coverage of all that [...]