New media explosion upends TV ratings system (Reuters)

Reuters - The explosion of ways people watch television is confounding the media industry, which has relied for decades on the Nielsen ratings but now must adapt to the realities of the Internet and on-demand video.

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AP Source: ViaSat to buy Wild Blue for $568M (AP)

AP - ViaSat Inc. is acquiring Wild Blue Communications Inc., a provider of high-speed Internet access via satellite, for $568 million in cash and stock, according to a person familiar with the situation.

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Microsoft video gets a little too much attention (AP)

AP - You almost have to feel bad for Microsoft. The software maker isn’t known for hip marketing tactics, and now that a Windows 7 video has hit it big online, people are laughing at the company, not with it.

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LA Times, Washington Post breaking up news service (AP)

AP - The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post are breaking up their news service after 47 years, making it the latest casualty of the media upheaval driven by the array of alternative information and entertainment sources on the Internet.

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Venezuelan Dudamel takes over LA Philharmonic (Reuters)

Reuters - Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Wednesday at the age of 28, deploying digital tools to draw a younger and less elite audience to classical music.

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Bangladesh set for record IPO (AFP)

AFP - Bangladesh’s largest mobile phone provider Grameenphone will launch the country’s biggest public sale of shares on Sunday, a move seen as a key test for the national stock exchange.

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NBA prohibits use of Twitter, Facebook during games (AFP)

AFP - The National Basketball Association is initiating new social media guidelines for its players, banning the use of web sites like Twitter and Facebook during games.

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Anti-video-game Crusader Sues Facebook for $40M (PC World)

PC World - A long-time critic of the video game industry has sued Facebook for US$40 million, saying that the social networking site harmed him by not removing angry postings made by Facebook gamers.

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IPhone, Android Boost Mobile Web Usage (PC World)

PC World - Newcomers to the mobile-phone market are driving more wireless Web access at the expense of the phone makers that have been around for a while, according to a new report from AdMob.

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Apple’s Tablet: Now Saving Newspapers Near You (PC World)

PC World - If the iPhone is the “Jesus phone,” it now appears as if the still-sheathed Apple tablet may become the “Jesus reader.”

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