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Big Media Flexes Its Muscle, and Justin Timberlake Sells a Lot of Music

Peter Kafka in Media on March 27 at 4:00 am PT

It helps that he can sing and dance. But it also helps that he’s got a huge machine behind him. Also: About those iTunes charts …

Exclusive: AOL Poised to Hire Susan Lyne to Run All Content Brands, Except HuffPo

Kara Swisher in Media on February 27 at 2:17 pm PT

Executive musical chairs at the New York Internet company.

News Byte

Twitter Launches Long-Awaited Advertising API

Peter Kafka in Media on February 20 at 9:11 am PT

Twitter is officially launching its ads API, which will allow marketers to buy Twitter ads via tools provided by third-party service companies. That’s an important step toward scaling its ad business, and one that helped boost Facebook’s revenue as it traveled down a similar path. Twitter is launching the tool in conjunction with five partners: Adobe, HootSuite, Salesforce, Shift and TBG Digital. TechCrunch predicted the move late last month.

Just.me App Wants to Be a Switchboard Operator for All Your Messaging Needs

Liz Gannes in Product News on January 23 at 12:00 pm PT

Do you use WhatsApp, Path, Instagram, Evernote, Facebook, Twitter and a billion more apps? Just.me thinks it could just be your one and only.

Two Years After Dramatic HuffPost Buy, AOL’s Armstrong and Arianna Talk About the Sometimes Rocky Road (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on January 17 at 1:41 pm PT

All’s well that ends well — even if it started not so well?

“Sponsor Content” Doesn’t Fool Anyone Except Advertisers

Peter Kafka in Media on January 15 at 3:58 pm PT

One big difference between the Atlantic’s Scientology ad and every other advertorial — we actually paid attention to it.

Spotify Up to 5 Million Paid Subscribers

Peter Kafka in Media on December 6, 2012 at 9:07 am PT

Big numbers from a company with big expectations.

Post-Election, CrunchGov’s Ferenstein Talks About What’s Up Next for Tech and Politics

Kara Swisher in Media on November 6, 2012 at 2:20 pm PT

Hey, go vote.

Marissa Mayer Will “Talk About Where She Is Taking Yahoo” in First Media Interview Since Becoming CEO

Kara Swisher in Media on November 5, 2012 at 2:59 pm PT

Pull up your chairs, people!

News Byte

Providence Equity Sells Hulu Stake

Peter Kafka in Media on October 12, 2012 at 6:30 pm PT

Providence Equity Partners has closed a deal to sell its stake in Hulu, according to a source familiar with the transaction. The sale, first reported by TechCrunch, has been in the works since April, and also triggers a “liquidity event” for the Web video site’s employee shareholders, including CEO Jason Kilar. Hulu’s others owners are Comcast, Disney, and News Corp., which also owns this Web site.