
The Associated Press is back on Google News.
There hasn’t been an Associated Press article on Google News since last December. Some speculated that that the AP was haggling for a higher price…
Google announced Google Buzz today — the search engine’s answer to Twitter and Facebook.
We weren’t impressed. Reasons:

The knives are out for Google Buzz.
We weren’t impressed by it, Yahoo made fun of it, and now Microsoft is joining the gang.
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Disney is getting involved in the White House’s new “Let’s Move” campaign. Their goal: Cure the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation.
For their part, Disney is creating a series…
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Foursquare is adding more media publishers to their portfolio of partnerships.
According to the New York Times, Foursquare is now partnering with the New York Times.
When I lost my job in June of 2009, I wasn’t very concerned. I knew the labor market was poor, and that it might take me awhile to find another position.
Still, I had a solid network of…

One big problem with Google Buzz — Google’s new social network built on top of Gmail — is that while our Gmail contact lists are full of people we actually know, they’re not full of…
From MediaMemo: Real Networks (RNWK) and Viacom (VIA) are reorganizing Rhapsody, their joint venture music service, and will be spinning it off into an independent company, the companies told…

The Walt Disney Company earnings were flat in its first fiscal quarter, compared with last year.
Net income in Q1 was $844 million or 44 cents per share, down from $845 million or 45…
It will take a few years — and probably a few hundred dollars in price cuts — before Apple’s iPad or similar tablets are mainstream products.
According to…

Like the majority of news organizations (like us!), CNN relies on wire services such as the AP to stay on top of global and breaking news.
But now, the network wants to prove it can do it all…

A lawsuit is afoot at the Playboy mansion.
An investor is suing Hugh Hefner, the head honcho and majority shareholder of Playboy Enterprises Inc.
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