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Facebook > WSJ + Chicago Tribune + LA Times + Chicago Cubs + YouTube

So you still don’t think Facebook is a big deal? Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft (MSFT) has agreed to purchase a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook for $240 million. That pegs the overall value of Facebook at $15 billion. In the real estate world, when setting a market price for a house my [...]
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Sign of The Times

A colleague just pointed this out to me. She knows I’m the blogging and new media guy, so she thought (correctly) I would get a kick out of the fact that the New York Times‘ online edition has a slightly different masthead. Instead of “All the news that’s fit to print” it’s (see lower right)… [...]
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It’s about Time(s)

The New York Times announces in tomorrow’s paper that its experiment with charging for a portion of its content on the web has come to an end: What changed, The Times said, was that many more readers started coming to the site from search engines and links on other sites instead of coming directly to [...]
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Wikinomics Book Review

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, provides an excellent overview of the technologies and trends that are so disruptive in the Web 2.0 world. While traveling today to the Frost & Sullivan Sales & Marketing East Executive MindXChange, I had the opportunity to listen to the first couple [...]
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44 More Leave Star Tribune Newsroom

The Minneapolis Star Tribune announced today a force reduction of 44 in its newsroom, mostly through voluntary buyouts, which comes on the heels of 24 who left three months ago: Another round of goodbyes — the second in three months — began at the Star Tribune on Tuesday as the paper prepared to send 44 [...]
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