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Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz
is starting a new startup called Asana to solve enterprise collaboration, and he just closed a $9 million series A round from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz. This follows $1.2 million angel round last spring from investors including Ron Conway, Peter Thiel, Mitch Kapor, MySpace CEO Owen van Natta, Sean Parker, and former Facebook Director of Mobile Jed Stremel.
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Google is experimenting with the AdSense platform by expanding the role of the traditional text link and short description.
AdSense boxes on Google search results pages now display a wealth of information to Internet users in the US.
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AOL is hiring -- for its Patch network of local news sites.
Last Friday, Patch's president Warren Webster was at an NYU Journalism event along with Darien Patch editor Cecilia Smith.
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Google (GOOG) today announced it named former American Express exec Lexi Reese its US director of sales for the DoubleClick ad exchange.
Google launched the exchange earlier this year, but industry sources say its not expected to hit its stride till the first half of next year.
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Swype could completely change the way we type on touchscreen smartphones -- and potentially pose a real challenge to the iPhone.
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"Good Morning America" will not be hosting a performance by Adam Lambert tomorrow, an ABC News spokesperson confirms.
The openly gay, freakishly talented singer -- who placed second in this year's "American Idol" finale -- has drawn complaints for his overtly sexual performance at Sunday's American Music Awards, which was televised on ABC.
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Amazon announced today two big upgrades to its 6 inch Kindle. The battery life is 85% longer and it has native PDF support.
While the native PDF support is supposed to help business users reading documents on their Kindles, it also opens the door to e-book piracy.
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CEO Carol Bartz wants Yahoo to be "your home on the Web."
To us, that means Yahoo is a portal.
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Is there no end to this all-media bloodbath?
Time Inc. is rolling out another round of layoffs today, right before the holiday season.
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News Corp. has company in its battle against Google.
A.H. Belo and MediaNews are saying they might pull their content from Google News, Bloomberg reports.
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Some clarification: Yahoo isn't shutting down Right Media's international ad exchange, but it is "regionalizing" its management structure.
As a part of the re-org, Yahoo offered the six people who run the thing from New York new gigs within the company.
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Colvin, who oversaw Maxim, Blender, and Stuff while at Dennis, will report to Brown at the editor's buzzy website. His duties include "revenue generation, audience development, brand development and social media. He is also charged with overseeing the recently unveiled Beast Books imprint and additional revenue streams, including an event series," says Kelly.
We find the move a little bizarre, since The Daily Beast already has a general manager, Caroline Marks. Who needs a GM and a President?
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AOL Web designers in Dulles should not expect to have jobs by the end of Q1 2010, several sources tell us.
Dulles's design team supports AOL News, Sports, Money, Health, and Living. 30 to 40 people work under SVP Marty Moe's media operation in Dulles, but only 10 to 12 of them are in design.
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Fox must be feeling pretty "Glee"-ful about its new high school dramedy. Because "Glee," created by Ryan Murphy, is grabbing the highest percentage of upscale viewers among all four broadcast networks, observes TV By The Numbers.
In ratings lingo, "upscale" means viewers aged between 18-49 with household incomes at or higher than $100,000. Advertisers love this!
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