Another Science Start-Up, Wittlebee, Gets $2.5 Million in Funding for Kids’ Clothes Club

It’s kind of like a never-ending online Gap.
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Samsung Hires Former AOL and Google Content Exec David Eun to Lead Renewed Media Push

The South Korean consumer electronics giant is upping its media game against more aggressive rivals like Google, Apple and Amazon.
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Hot for “Bad Teacher”: Sony Spikes Sales With Early Offers on iTunes, Amazon

You want to rent, but Hollywood wants you to buy. And a Sony experiment sounds promising for the studios.
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Cameron Diaz and “Bad Teacher” Come Early to Apple, Amazon

Another Hollywod “window” experiment.
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Here Comes Another Cloud: Hollywood Hopes “UltraViolet” Will Save DVDs

Will the ability to download “Horrible Bosses” onto your iPad make you more likely to buy “Horrible Bosses” on Blu-ray?
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My Picks for Yahoo’s Next CEO — Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?

While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.
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Essay: Jobs’s Departure as CEO of Apple Is the End of an Extraordinary Era

Why the day Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple isn’t like the day a typical CEO resigns.
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Hey Kids, Let’s Put on a $4M VC-Funded Show! A Visit to the YouTube Moguls of Maker Studios (Video)

Maker Studios, a new-generation production company, has just gotten another $2.5 million in venture funding to help it make videos, mostly for YouTube. That brings total funding from Greycroft Partners and GRP Partners to $4 million for a studio created to bring more professional original content to the Internet.
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Exclusive: AOL Fires Moviefone Editor Who Offered Fired Freelancers the Chance to Work for, Um, Free

Yesterday, AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to “contribute as part of our non-paid blogger system.” Today, sources said that exec–Moviefone Editor-in-Chief Patricia Chui–was fired by the company, which is in the midst of drastically rejiggering its stable of writers.

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Netflix to Stream "Mad Men"

Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., which produces the hit television series “Mad Men,” struck a deal with Netflix Inc. to stream all seven seasons of the critically acclaimed show about a 1960s advertising agency.

EMC to Buy Isilon Systems