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Bing Focuses On Entertainment With New Features

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Microsoft's search engine, Bing , is enhancing its searches for an area of interest to lots of Southern California firms--entertainment and media content. On the movie front, Bing said it will provide movie reviews, playtimes, nearby traffic, and other information about movies.

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How You Know You’ve Got the Right Startup Model?

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Or when Viacom sued YouTube, the music industry sued Napster or even when Hulu was created (I think I was the first to publicly call out that Hulu was really formed like OPEC.). Even governments don’t like losing their monopoly – control of the media. Turkey or China?

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

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No matter how smart or knowledgable Gore was he couldn’t get a break in the media. ” Many people in Internet TV talk to me about “ Torso TV ” or “ Why Hulu is like OPEC. how informed will they be about our product / service? To be much smarter than the information you’re divulging.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. People aren’t going to fundamentally change their media consumption patterns just as consumers don’t fundamentally change their diets. MSN & AOL.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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I’m not providing actual financial information or predicting a number or a date but I will tell you that the revenue growth to date has been astounding. The more people that see your brand as the innovator the more “earned media” the company gets and the product becomes synonymous with the category. Forget the valuation?—?I

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Decoding The Science Behind The Laughs, With Daniel Altman of Laffster

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They're not ill informed, they're just short on time and think the news networks are biased. We've got original contributors such as Vox Media, Maker Studio's POLIPOP Network, everyone from the Bad Lip Reading Guys, to Barackdubs, it spans the spectrum. We also work with other sources such as The Onion, Jon Stewart, and The Onion.

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Can Blip.TV Change The Indie Production Market On The Web?

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Netflix, Hulu, and even YouTube and other content streaming sites have all but obliterated the independent DVD rental business of yesterday. In plain English, they’ve redesigned the site so that it is more interactive from a social media perspective and not just for viewers but for their content producers and advertising partners.

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