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Olympic Viewing: Different NBC rules on Twitter
Despite some lingering dissatisfaction with NBC's practice of holding back television coverage of high-profile events for prime time, things are ...
Saudi woman's Olympic judo bout over in 82 seconds
It was over in little more than a minute, but it will go down as one of the most memorable moments of the London Games. A young Saudi judo fighter's ...
Avoiding Olympic spoilers is a sport of its own
Mandy Hauck turned 25 on Wednesday, but she's avoiding Facebook and her happy birthday messages to steer clear of Olympic spoilers about her favorite ...
Online news venture NewsRight names interim CEO
NewsRight, a company created by The Associated Press and newspaper publishers to track the unlicensed use of news stories on the Internet, said Friday ...
Yahoo turns to former nemesis to be its CEO savior
As a top executive at Google for the past 13 years, Marissa Mayer played an instrumental role in developing many of the services that have tormented ...
Microsoft, NBC dissolve MSNBC.com joint venture
Microsoft is pulling out of the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com, freeing the world's largest software maker to build its own online news service.
Ethiopia: Dissident blogger sentenced to 18 years
Ethiopia's federal court on Friday sentenced a prominent dissident blogger and 23 other opposition activists to long prison terms on terror charges, ...
Yahoo's interim CEO faces off with shareholders
Yahoo's restless shareholders let interim CEO Ross Levinsohn know that they won't give him much time to fix the troubled company if he gets the job ...
NBC in talks to buy Microsoft stake in MSNBC site
NBC News is negotiating to buy Microsoft's portion of MSNBC.com, potentially severing a joint venture that begin nearly 17 years ago. An NBC News ...
Journalists: Ethiopia refining Internet censorship
The Committee to Protect Journalists says it appears Ethiopia is extending and refining its censorship of Internet news with a sophistication that ...
Sri Lankan police raid news website, arrest 9
Sri Lankan police arrested nine journalists and seized computers and documents from the office of an independent news website Friday, said a media ...
News organizations don't all get ruling right
A rush to quickly report the Supreme Court's decision on President Barack Obama's health care law on Thursday tripped up some news organizations that ...
Yahoo hires chief revenue officer to spur ad sales
Yahoo is turning to a former colleague of its interim CEO to oversee the troubled Internet company's efforts to sell more online advertising.
Fairfax Media to shed 1,900 jobs over 3 years
Australian publisher Fairfax Media Ltd. said Monday it will shed 1,900 jobs over three years and erect pay walls for two flagship newspapers as ...