YouNow, Web Video’s Live Amateur Hour, Bulks Up by Buying Blog TV

Live Web video can be one-to-one, or one-to-many, or something in between. YouNow takes the middle route, and that could be interesting.
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Giving Mobile TV Another Go With Dyle

Live television on mobile devices has been attempted before. Is Dyle any different?
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Marissa Mayer’s First Live Interview (Which ATD Had to Virtually Sneak Into): God. Family. Yahoo.

Going down those Internet pipes is really tight.
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NYC Late-Night Hosts’ Audience-Free Monologues, Courtesy of Sandy

Don’t everyone laugh at once.
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Making Sure the Next Zuckerberg or Gates Stays Put at Harvard

Earlier today, Harvard University and New Enterprise Associates announced the Experiment Fund, aimed at making sure that future entrepreneurs can stay on campus and innovate without having to head West.
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Live Streaming @ D9: Google’s Schmidt, Netflix’s Hastings and Alibaba’s Ma!

In the nine years that we’ve been putting on the D: All Things Digital conference, we’ve never streamed our always sold-out flagship show live. Until this year, that is, when we will be live streaming three full sessions from California.
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Yahoo Preps for Investor Day Tomorrow, While Investors Prep for a Yahoo Grilling

It’s time for Yahoo’s annual meeting with its investors tomorrow. On the menu: Not-so-tasty Chinese issues, with a side of stock decline.
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Exclusive: Wal-Mart Paid $300 Million-Plus for Kosmix

According to sources close to the situation, retail giant Wal-mart paid just over $300 million in cash for Kosmix, an acquisition announced earlier today. That’s a big price for the six-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which has built a social media platform that organizes content by topic and had raised $55 million from a large group of Silicon Valley venture firms.

Viral Video: "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop" (at SXSW)

Conan O’Brien has been all over the South by Southwest festival this week, hawking a new documentary about his time wandering in the late-night talk television wilderness after he left “The Tonight Show” last year, titled “Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop.” His hysterical journey, of course, was deftly played out by O’Brien all over the Internet, which was definitely on “Team Coco.”

Video: Ning's Andreessen and Rosenthal Talk About New Social Chat Service Mogwee

Yes, it’s actually called Mogwee, which was the codename for the new mobile social communications service being launched tonight by Ning, the high-profile social networking platform. Part Twitter, part SMS, part Path and any number of such social start-ups, Mogwee actually stands for “more great weekends.” Here is a video with Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal and Chairman Marc Andreessen talking Mogwee.

Binging in the Holidays (With Donuts!)

Qualcomm to Give FloTV Users Money Back