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You Got Pants, Facebook Has People
Just because a social network is popular doesn't mean it's so easy to monetize, as News Corp. found out after its purchase…
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Russian President Wants Cyrillic Internet Domain
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia needs to be assigned an Internet domain name in the Cyrillic script in an effort to promote Russian as an international language.The Kremlin is worried that Russian, once the main language in the Soviet Union is being used less because of local languages and the influence of English.Medvedev said that 300 million people worldwide used Russian media and that…
Yahoo’s Poison Pill Headed For Court
Last week's letter war between Carl Icahn and Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock was just a preview of what's to come. Ichan and company have challenged Yahoo's employee retention plan (Icahn calls it a severance plan) in a Delaware court. Slated to go to trial in July, the legal matter will be settled in advance of the annual shareholders meeting on August 1.
Metallica Now Master of Puppet Bloggers
This may or not be taught in PR 101, perhaps because the general tenet is obvious: Don't screw up good PR with bad PR. We'll chalk this one up to Metallica's management and not to the band itself, just to be fair.
Yahoo Exec Expected To Leave
The executive vice president of Yahoo's network division may be heading out the door. Jeff Weiner apparently plans to return from a four-week paternity leave, but rumor has it he won't stick around for long afterwards.
Britannica Takes A Cue From Wikipedia
It wasn't that long ago the people behind Encyclopedia Britannica turned an academic nose up toward Wikipedia for its populist ways. That may have been a tad premature, especially when one counts 57 million monthly visitors versus Britannica's three million. Then again, Britannica's three million are paying visitors.
