Disney’s Playdom Publishes Third-Party Social Game Title Triple Town

Seeking a larger audience to play its game, Spry Fox is partnering up with Disney to publish its social game Triple Town on Facebook.
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iPad Magazine Readers to Publishers: More, Please

Publishers’ hopes for the iPad and e-readers have come back to earth. But the people who actually download these things like them quite a bit, according to a new survey.
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Wenner Media Digital Boss Michael Bloom Leaves After Six Months

Bloom joined the publisher, which owns Rolling Stone, Us Weekly, and Men’s Journal, in May. Friday afternoon he sent out a memo announcing his departure.
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Exclusive: Disney Acquires “Sophisticated” Mommy Blog Platform Babble Media

Organic arugula alert: Disney’s interactive unit is calling all urban hipster parents!
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Another Googley “Acqhire” — Contextual Search Start-Up Apture to Join the Chrome Team

Google has acquired contextual search start-up Apture and will integrate the team and features into Chrome.
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Yahoo’s Product Runway: Are You In or Out?

I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.
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Facebook’s Overhaul Gives MOG a Rocket Ride

A 4x leap for the music subscription service in a month. Now it has to keep those users, add more, and eventually get a few of them to pay.
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Spooking Flipboard: Yahoo’s Livestand — Followed by Google’s Propeller — Set to Launch Next Week

Memo to Flipboard, Pulse, CNN’s Zite and AOL’s Editions: You might want to make some room in the crowded news and social reader space — you’re about to get some bigfoot company.
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Federated Media Buys Lijit Networks

A medium-sized online advertising company buys a smaller one.
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Washington Post Chairman — and Facebook Director — Don Graham Talks About Social Reader (Video)

I used to work for this man and, believe you me, you should listen to what he has to say about the future of news.
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