IMDB "Jane Doe" case gets a court date (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 at 3:35 pm

Reuters - Junie Hoang, the actress suing the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) for revealing her age, will see her day -- and perhaps two days -- in court next year.

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Star Wars, Ferris Bueller drive Super Bowl ad buzz (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 1:30 pm

Reuters - The Super Bowl is still two days away but some advertisers already are looking like winners as their yet-to-be-aired commercials score millions of hits online and rack up pre-game buzz.

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Madonna launching video on billboards, online (AP)

Posted under Entertainment on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 4:49 am

AP - Clear Channel is giving Madonna all its luvin'.

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NY Times profit falls as ad revenue shrinks (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 7:55 am

Reuters - The New York Times Co's fourth-quarter profit fell but surpassed Wall Street expectations, as the newspaper's online edition added subscribers, and the company forecast advertising revenue to remain flat.

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Televisa, Iusacell say Mexico rejects planned deal (AP)

Posted under Entertainment on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 9:44 pm

AP - A move by the world's largest Spanish-language media company into Mexico's mobile-phone market has been rejected by the country's anti-monopoly regulator, the two companies involved in the deal said.

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Three Demand Media executives leave (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 4:21 pm

Reuters - Demand Media Inc said on Monday that three executives left the online media and advertising company to pursue other business opportunities.

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Neeson’s ‘The Grey’ tops box office with $20M (AP)

Posted under Entertainment on Sunday, January 29th, 2012 at 1:58 pm

AP - Beware the Liam in Winter. Liam Neeson's "The Grey" topped the weekend box office with $20 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, continuing the actor's success as an action star in the winter months.

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Twitter’s new censorship rules face opposition (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Friday, January 27th, 2012 at 5:06 pm

Reuters - It was only two weeks ago that Twitter was protesting online censorship in the form of anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. Now the social networking site faces a surge of opposition to its own censorship practices.

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CNN behind on TV ratings, ahead of rivals online (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 12:14 pm

Reuters - CNN may lag behind most of its competitors in the television ratings department, but digital is another story.

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French brand Courreges takes retro fashion online (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 1:26 pm

Reuters - Courreges, the futuristic fashion brand of the 1960s, is poised to bring its vinyl boots and A-line mini-dresses back into vogue, relaunching the French name online.

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Mecom to charge for news online in new strategy (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 2:28 am

Reuters - Loss-making European publisher Mecom is to slash costs, review assets and charge customers to access content online as it fights to revive a business hit by falling advertising sales and changing readership trends.

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News Corp hacking tabloid misled UK police (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Monday, January 23rd, 2012 at 10:12 am

Reuters - Journalists from the News of the World tabloid misled police after hacking the mobile phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, action which sparked a scandal engulfing News Corp, a letter from police published on Monday said.

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Epic clash: Silicon Valley blindsides Hollywood on piracy (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Monday, January 23rd, 2012 at 8:54 am

Reuters - The massive online protest last Wednesday, in which Wikipedia and thousands of other websites closed down or otherwise protested and helped to kill controversial online piracy legislation, was widely heralded as an unprecedented case of a grassroots uprising overcoming backroom lobbying.

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Firm stops file sharing after Megaupload case (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 at 9:37 pm

Reuters - FileSonic, a website providing online data storage, has disabled its file sharing services following a U.S.-led crackdown on a rival website and amid heated debate over Washington's attempts to clamp down on online piracy.

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Epic clash: Silicon Valley blindsides Hollywood on piracy (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 at 2:13 pm

Reuters - The massive online protest last Wednesday, in which Wikipedia and thousands of other websites closed down or otherwise protested and helped to kill controversial online piracy legislation, was widely heralded as an unprecedented case of a grassroots uprising overcoming backroom lobbying.

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Megaupload site wants assets back, to fight charges (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Friday, January 20th, 2012 at 1:52 pm

Reuters - The Internet website Megaupload.com, shut down by authorities over allegations that it illegally peddled copyrighted material, is trying to recover its servers and get back online, a lawyer for the company said on Friday.

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Lawmakers flip on piracy bills protested on Web (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 11:46 am

Reuters - Some members of Congress switched sides to oppose antipiracy legislation as protests blanketed the Internet on Wednesday, turning Wikipedia dark and putting black slashes on Google and other sites as if they had been censored.

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Megadeth bassist becomes a seminarian (AP)

Posted under Entertainment on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 8:17 am

AP - Concordia Seminary in suburban St. Louis gets an eclectic mix of students in a program allowing them to train for the ministry online — electricians, farmers, entrepreneurs — and even a founder of one of the best-known thrash metal bands.

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Huffington Post to land in Italy with L’Espresso (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 4:52 am

Reuters - Influential U.S. online publisher Huffington Post Media Group has teamed up with L'Espresso on an Italian edition.

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Murdoch company to pay hacking damages in 36 cases (AP)

Posted under Entertainment on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 4:47 am

AP - Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper company on Thursday agreed to pay damages to 36 high-profile victims of tabloid phone-hacking, including actor Jude Law, soccer player Ashley Cole and former British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.

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Huffington Post preps online streaming network (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 8:05 pm

Reuters - The Huffington Post is launching its own 24-hour live cable news network for the web, TheWrap has confirmed.

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Pockets of Internet go dark to protest piracy bills (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 3:43 pm

Reuters - Wikipedia, the world's free online encyclopedia, went dark on Wednesday and other Internet players including Google put black censorship bars on portions of their websites in protest of pending U.S. legislation designed to curb online piracy.

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Ringtone halts NY Philharmonic performance (AP)

Posted under Entertainment on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 3:18 pm

AP - It's the dreaded sound at any live performance — a ringing cellphone.

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Harvey Weinstein helps relaunch AOL-HuffPost’s Moviefone (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 5:44 pm

Reuters - Harvey Weinstein, meet Arianna Huffington.

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Netflix sparks price war with UK launch (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Monday, January 9th, 2012 at 7:50 am

Reuters - Netflix launched in Britain and Ireland on Monday, taking on BSkyB's premium drama and movies offerings and prompting Amazon-owned rival Lovefilm to offer a new cut-price service.

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Love and war rage as PBS’ ‘Downton Abbey’ returns (AP)

Posted under Entertainment on Saturday, January 7th, 2012 at 12:26 pm

AP - It's an irony that acid-tongued Violet, aka the dowager countess of Grantham, would savor: One of TV's hottest romances is playing out among English nobility, with nary a cell phone or laptop in sight and, most shockingly, on PBS.

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Gawker fires blogger over Kanye West post (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Friday, January 6th, 2012 at 7:59 am

Reuters - Gawker fired blogger Seth Abramovitch Thursday for a post about Kanye West in which he used a certain unpalatable racial slur, TheWrap has confirmed.

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Zynga releases first mobile game since IPO (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Thursday, January 5th, 2012 at 12:36 pm

Reuters - Online game developer Zynga Inc is releasing a new mobile word game called "Scramble with Friends" on Thursday to expand its user base beyond Facebook and catch up with rivals in the handheld market.

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New York Times, Washington Post, AP found NewsRight (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Thursday, January 5th, 2012 at 9:35 am

Reuters - Several newspaper organizations are banding together under an organization titled NewsRight to license and profit from the spread of their content online.

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After strong Iowa showing, Santorum still has Google problem (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 at 9:48 am

Reuters - Americans who take to the Internet to learn more about Rick Santorum following his strong finish in the Iowa caucuses are about to discover his Google problem.

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"Merkozy" play leads in beloved German New Year skit (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Saturday, December 31st, 2011 at 10:37 am

Reuters - A skit of "Dinner for One," the British vaudeville comedy sketch so loved in Germany it holds cult status and is screened every New Year's Eve, with Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy as "Miss Sophie" and her bumbling butler, has become an Internet smash.

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Taylor auction is a gem, sales top $157 million (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 at 6:06 am

Reuters - Auctions of Elizabeth Taylor's collection of jewels, gowns, art and memorabilia broke records last week on their way to totaling more than $150 million worth of live and online sales, Christie's said on Monday.

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Taylor auction is a gem, sales top $157 million (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Monday, December 19th, 2011 at 12:43 pm

Reuters - Auctions of Elizabeth Taylor's collection of jewels, gowns, art and memorabilia broke records last week on their way to totaling more than $150 million worth of live and online sales, Christie's said on Monday.

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Glam Media moves closer to IPO, filing seen in Q2 (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Thursday, December 15th, 2011 at 8:22 am

Reuters - Glam Media, the women's lifestyle online publishing and advertising company, is close to selecting bankers to lead an initial stock offering slated for 2012, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Glam Media moves closer to IPO, filing seen in Q2 (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 at 3:51 pm

Reuters - Glam Media, the women's lifestyle online publishing and advertising company, is close to selecting bankers to lead an initial stock offering slated for 2012, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Australia media ownership laws set for shake-up: reports (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 at 3:10 pm

Reuters - A review of Australia's media will call for a radical overhaul of laws that curb the influence of media proprietors, potentially paving the way for more consolidation between newspapers, internet and television, reports said on Thursday.

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AOL TV gets HuffPost makeover (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 at 10:05 am

Reuters - AOL TV has been rebranded as HuffPost TV.

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SAY Media acquires tech blog Read Write Web (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 at 10:04 am

Reuters - SAY Media announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Read Write Web, a popular and respected technology blog.

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House clears way for spectrum auction; bill faces veto (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 7:01 pm

Reuters - Congress passed new legislation on Tuesday that would give the Federal Communications Commission the authority to auction off television companies' broadband spectrum, so it can be reallocated for mobile and internet companies.

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APNewsBreak: Man charged in attack on Simmons site (AP)

Posted under Entertainment on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 4:38 pm

AP - A Connecticut man affiliated with a hacking group was arrested Tuesday on federal charges for an attack on a website belonging to Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, authorities said.

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Tony Bennett auctions nude sketch of Lady Gaga (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 3:49 pm

Reuters - A nude charcoal drawing of Lady Gaga by singer Tony Bennett went up for auction on Ebay this week, with all proceeds going to both singers' charities.

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APNewsBreak: Man charged in attack on Simmons site (AP)

Posted under Entertainment on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 1:19 pm

AP - A Connecticut man affiliated with the Anonymous hacking group was arrested Tuesday on federal charges for an attack on a website belonging to Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, authorities said.

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Police unsure of tabloid role in key UK hacking case (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Monday, December 12th, 2011 at 4:34 pm

Reuters - British police said on Monday there was no evidence that journalists from Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid had deleted a murdered schoolgirl's mobile phone messages, a claim that led to public revulsion and the closure of the paper.

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Playboy advances Lohan issue due to leaked photos (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Monday, December 12th, 2011 at 12:29 pm

Reuters - Playboy magazine is advancing the newsstand date for its upcoming issue with nude pictures of actress Lindsay Lohan in part due to photos that were leaked online in advance, Hugh Hefner said on Friday.

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Playboy advances Lohan issue due to leaked photos (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Friday, December 9th, 2011 at 4:21 pm

Reuters - Playboy magazine is advancing the newsstand date for its upcoming issue with nude pictures of actress Lindsay Lohan in part due to photos that were leaked online in advance, Hugh Hefner said on Friday.

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Twitter introduces revamped Web site (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Thursday, December 8th, 2011 at 2:46 pm

Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Twitter revamped its website on Thursday to make the microblogging service easier to use and to help companies better showcase their brands.

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Airline responds as dustup with Baldwin continues (AP)

Posted under Entertainment on Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at 1:25 pm

AP - Alec Baldwin's dustup with American Airlines continued for a second day Wednesday, with the airline taking to social media to maintain it was following federal regulations when it booted an "extremely vocal customer" from a flight for refusing to shut off his cellphone.

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Newspaper companies put their money where the clicks are (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at 12:34 pm

Reuters - Media companies McClatchy Co and Media General Inc, which are seeing their focus on online content starting to pay off, are speeding up their investments in digital media.

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Alec Baldwin kicked off LA flight for playing game (AP)

Posted under Entertainment on Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 at 3:41 pm

AP - Alec Baldwin has been kicked off a plane at Los Angeles International Airport for having words with a flight attendant over a word game he was playing on his cellphone.

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Steve Jones asks "X Factor" fans to chill out the hate (Reuters)

Posted under Entertainment on Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 at 1:22 pm

Reuters - "X Factor" host Steve Jones on Tuesday pleaded with angry fans to "chill out" after hateful online comments against judges who threw a 14-year-old singer off the TV talent show.

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