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Time Warner Put the “For Sale” Sign on Time Inc. Last Fall
Jeff Bewkes and company used to insist they wanted to hang on to their magazine business. They stopped saying that in September.
YESS: Yahoo HR Exec Loses Mayer’s Survey Contest, Gangnam Style
But not so Oppa GS: A stock downgrade.
People Tries to Boost Subscriptions by Selling a New iPhone App
Meet Celebwatch, a Twitter/People.com mashup. You can pay Time Inc. a buck a month for it, but they’d prefer to give it away.
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Yahoo Exec Reses Joins Alibaba Board
Alibaba Group said that top Yahoo exec Jackie Reses had joined its board of directors, taking over a slot most recently held by the company’s former CFO Tim Morse and also previously held by Yahoo co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang. Reses was named EVP of people and development in September, overseeing human resources and corporate development at the Silicon Valley Internet giant. The board of the Chinese e-commerce company, in which Yahoo still holds a large stake — about 23 percent fully diluted — after selling a multi-billion-dollar chunk recently, also included Alibaba’s top execs Jack Ma and Joe Tsai, as well as SoftBank’s CEO Masayoshi Son. Japan’s SoftBank also has a major investment in Alibaba. As part of the buyback agreement with Alibaba, Yahoo has relinquished the right to a second seat.Apple, Time Inc. Solve Their Subscription Squabble
It only took two years!
There Are Seven Billion People on Planet Earth Right Now (Try to Keep Up, Facebook!)
It’s official: Seven billion people are alive in the world at this moment, a high population point of all time. And they are more digital than ever.
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Time Inc. Hires Digital Chief
Time Inc. hired former Nokia Corp. executive George Linardos as the new head of digital marketing at the magazine-publishing unit, the company said Tuesday, a move that is likely to affirm the magazine company’s conservative approach to distributing titles like Time, People and Sports Illustrated on tablet computers.AOL’s HuffPost Enters Crowded Online Arena With HuffPost Celebrity Site
The Huffington Post Media Group, AOL’s fast-moving content unit, is launching a celebrity site called HuffPost Celebrity today, as well as another called HuffPost Culture. HuffPost Celebrity, which ate AOL’s former celeb-focused site Popeater, is in a very crowded arena online, with competitors such as Yahoo’s omg!, Time Warner’s People magazine Web site, as well as AOL-owned TMZ.com.
Apple Brings Conde Nast Aboard the Subscription Bandwagon, Starting With the New Yorker
Apple is winning over the big publishers. Last week, Hearst Corp. said it planned to start selling its magazines using Apple’s new iTunes subscription service. Now rival Conde Nast is actually doing it, via the publisher’s New Yorker title.
Microsoft to Add Multitasking, Internet Explorer 9 to Windows Phone Later this Year
In an interview, Microsoft phone unit President Andy Lees walks through the changes that Redmond plans to make to bolster Windows Phone 7. Improvements coming later this year include Twitter integration, a better browser and the ability to do more things at once.
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