Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me: Yahoo’s Latest New Homepage Redesign Tries Dramatic Interactive Tile Look

Apparently, imitation of Flipboard, Window 8, Pinterest, Wonderwall and more is the sincerest form of flattery.
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MSN Gets Major Refresh With Windows 8

The “ground up” redo is coming at the end of October.
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Microsoft and NBC Call It Quits, for Real: Here’s the MSNBC.com Divorce Filing

The end of a relationship that started back in 1996.
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Microsoft Writing Off Nearly All of the $6.3 Billion It Paid for aQuantive

The software maker is taking a $6.2 billion non-cash charge, acknowledging the 2007 deal hasn’t helped its online services business as hoped.
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Exclusive: BermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie’s Whiskey Media

Can’t we all just get along? Yes! Hollywood grabs a piece of Silicon Valley content tech.
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msnNOW Launches — Apparently, Not Your Granddaddy’s MSN (Video)

Simply put, this is a way to get them high-twitch youngsters to pay some mind to old, musty portals.
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BermanBraun to Launch Three Non-HuffPost Sites — Including Weather — for AOL

In a rare partnership, Arianna Huffington makes way for some fancy Hollywood online content producers.
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The Rise of Google, the Ascent of Facebook and the Decline of Everyone Else

Very reasonable bet: Google + Facebook will own 50 percent of the Web ad market by the end of this month.
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