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Which Blog Mogul’s Life Is The Most Valuable?
6:34AM Ryan Tate | It may seem crass to put a price tag on a human life. But you never know when a brand-name blogger like Matt Drudge or Perez Hilton might be tragically killed. Luckily, AOL’s 24/7 Wall Street has calculated the economic loss. More »
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MySpace Is For “Stalking”, Says Owner Of MySpace
3:27AM Ryan Tate | Media mogul and grumpy old man Rupert Murdoch has developed a “personal antipathy to the Internet”, biographer Michael Wolff writes. Murdoch even thinks MySpace, which he himself paid $US580 million for, is kind of a criminal piece of garbage: More »
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Mark Zuckerberg Rolling In Cash If Not Profits
8:20AM Ryan Tate | What advertising depression? Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook is cash flow positive a year ahead of schedule, hitting 300 million users and growing ad sales. Great. Now the social network needs to achieve actual profit, and ditch its beloved funny numbers.
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The Steve Jobs Video Wall Street Will Be Poring Over
1:50AM Ryan Tate | “I probably need to gain about 30 pounds,” Steve Jobs told the New York Times after his return to public life yesterday. Might as well concede the obvious, what with investors looking to pounce on any unexpected physical weakness. More »
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Steve Jobs Psychodrama Unfolds Through iPod Event
1:59AM Ryan Tate | The big tech news today is Apple’s expected unveiling of new iPod music players. How pedestrian. The subtext is far more gripping: The inevitable end of the Steve Jobs era at Apple, and whether it’s yet upon us. More »
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Jared Kushner Ready To Exit The New York Observer?
4:52AM Hamilton Nolan | Back in April we floated some rumours that NYC’s youngest media mogul Jared Kushner was anxious to extricate himself from owning the New York Observer. Now, we hear, Kushner’s still searching for ways out. More »
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You Will Soon Pay To Access All Of Rupert Murdoch’s Online Rubbish
7:09PM the cajun boy | Rupert Murdoch announced plans yesterday to charge for online access to all of News Corp’s media properties. Coincidentally, the company posted a $US203 million loss for its fourth quarter, down from a profit of $US1.1 billion from the same period last year. More »
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Arianna Huffington Crowdsources Her 59th Birthday Party
4:02AM Ryan Tate | Arianna Huffington’s 59th birthday has been nothing if not dramatic. The internet publisher returned to her birthplace of Athens, Greece before ending up in Dubrovnik, Croatia. What did Huffington do for the occasion? Whatever Twitter told her to. More »
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Felix Dennis Is A Food Safety Fanatic
6:00AM Hamilton Nolan | Felix Dennis is publishing’s wild man! How is the former Maxim publisher and admitted (then hastily retracted!) murderer keeping himself busy these days? More »
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