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First Mover: Chris Hughes The Facebook co-founder has big ideas for expanding the appeal of 'The New Republic'

Specs Age 28 New gig Publisher, editor in chief, The New Republic Old gig Facebook co-founder, Obama campaign strategist, founder of Jumo After Facebook and Washington, what’s it like to be part of the…

May 21 2012

Facebook Still Courting Media Business Media companies are both enamored with and cautious of the social media giant

Mark Zuckerberg has long encouraged other industries to follow the lead of the gaming business, which he believes has been transformed by social media. The Facebook CEO often points to…

May 21 2012

Nascar, Twitter Turn Hashtags Into Pit Stops Part of larger effort to tie social and sports

The hashtag’s basic function is to serve as a content filter on Twitter. While useful, hashtags can also be uninspired. So Twitter is converting the hashtag into a content destination…

May 18 2012

Facebook Shares Rise, Fall, Rise, but End Up Where They Started Stock closes 23 cents higher than $38 opening price

Mark Zuckerberg started today a rich man. Then he rang the Nasdaq opening bell from Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters and two hours later his company made its stock market…

May 18 2012

Information Diet: David X. Cohen 'Futurama' head writer gets through L.A. commute with audio books

Specs Age 45 Accomplishments Head writer and executive producer of Futurama, which premieres on Comedy Central on June 20 at 10 p.m.; former writer on The Simpsons Base Los Angeles What’s the first information you consume in the morning? I guess…

May 18 2012

Silicon Alley's Night Out Time Inc. throws party for city's top startups

Wednesday night, for the second year in a row, Time Inc. threw a party to fete its list of 10 NYC Startups To Watch. Several of the company's leaders sat…

May 17 2012

MLB Advanced Media Planning Major Game Initiative This Summer CEO Bowman explains why platforms matter during IAB sitdown

MLB Advanced Media is a quietly powerful force in digital media. Like, really powerful. With some projecting revenue of $500 million in 2012 and clients like NCAA March Madness and…

May 17 2012

Guinness QR Cup Reveals Scannable Code When Full Another reason to choose the black stuff

QR codes have been exhibiting an uncharacteristic characteristic lately—they've been not sucking as much. We had the Korean retailer's 3-D sunlight-activated QR code, which was scannable only at lunch, when…

May 17 2012

Do Not Track Gets Support From Twitter FTC tech head discusses tracking and privacy

Twitter has come out in support of Do Not Track, the privacy featured adopted by Web browsers such as Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that lets users…

May 17 2012

Google Drops Knowledge (Graph) on Search First step toward next generation of search, says company

Essential as search is to digital marketing--search received 47 percent of the $31.7 billion spent on online advertising in 2011, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Pricewaterhouse Coopers—it's not…

May 17 2012

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