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Apple, labels work on plan to boost album sales: report| Deals| Reuters

Tweet zyakaira notes: Apple continues to ride on its current successes and hopefully would be able to get itself out of the DRM snare for customers as also improve its payments portal to accept international payments as Music Labels would earn the most out of that with an ipod than any other platform. Apple Inc [...]

Sports Salaries Show What We Really Value: FiLife (a WSJ partner)

Tweet The issue of escalating compensation and rising ticket prices in professional sports has been around for years. But next month it could reach a boiling point when 21-year-old Stephen Strasburg, the No. 1 pick in this year's Major League Baseball draft, signs for at least $15 million. And that's just a bonus before salary [...]

peHUB » Highway 12 Turns Onto The Information Superhighway

Tweet Mark Solon, a general partner at Highway 12 Ventures in Boise, Idaho, sums up his firm’s social networking strategy in one sentence. “If you’re not on Facebook, Twitter and all the other social networking sites, communicating with your investors and entrepreneurs, then you’re going to be left behind,” he says. Such was the reason [...]

Social Networks and Blogs Reached Largest Growth Among Top Online Activities – Nielsen’s Global Research | Trendsspotting

Tweet Online time changes by Top 15 A new study released by Nielsen reports the shift in the online social behavior. Nielsen’s study results presented here followed the online activity in the USA, Brazil, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Australia. Note that the ‘Member Community’ category includes both social networking and blogging [...]

Twitter Fires Up the Spotlight | Marketing Pilgrim

Tweet   Last month Twitter launched its ‘suggested users’ feature and the impact on those who were put on Twitter’s red carpet has been significant. Some of these profiles saw tens of thousands of additional followers added to their own personal profiles which created some very happy folks and, you guessed it, some not so [...]

Jay Leno’s Move Hints at Future of Prime-Time TV - NYTimes.com

Tweet With one sweeping shift this week, the ailing NBC network reordered the playing field of prime-time television. The introduction of a five-night-a-week program starring Mr. Leno, beginning next fall, was a concession that TV norms cannot continue, at least not at fourth-place NBC. The programming and viewing habits of the last 50 years — [...]

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