What Journalism Can Learn from Zimbabwe

There are a million and one reasons why micro-payments won’t save journalism, but ultimately the most obvious is that we are living in a time where there’s an over-abundance of news media. Think about it, where did you watch the Obama Inauguration? Did you watch it on CNN, BBC, SkyNews, Al-Jazeera, Fox News, MSNBC or [...]

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Conserving Jet and Ebony in The Digital Era

Like many media companies, Johnson Publishing Company, the publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines, is rumored to be dangerously close to wiping out under the waves of the crashing economy.  And everybody seems to have an opinion as to why Johnson Publishing and the readers of both marquee brands should do whatever it takes to [...]

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Weekly Money Trail- 08/01/2008

Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire software company Pure Networks for $120 million in cash as the networking giant expands its consumer product portfolio. This is Cisco’s first acquisition of a venture-backed company since it announced in November that it would acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software, for $100 million in cash. Cisco, which [...]

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The Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008

Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites. http://www.alerts.com

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ZeeVee TV helps make HD easy with “Localcasting”

Start Up ZeeTV is not just another media box, or set top box maker. The start-up company just announced a box that will allow users to broadcast high-def web video and other computer content to any HDTV in the house.

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Weekly Money Trail 7-4-2008

Microsoft throws it’s weight behind Semantic light weight, POWERSET.COM Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine’s ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together. Google has generally eschewed natural-language search in favor [...]

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Chamillionaire: The Social Media Impact

Over time we’ve profiled social media’s impact on the music industry, covering artist including RadioHead and Soulja Boy, but not to be out done is Grammy award winning rapper and record label CEO, Chamillionare. The north Houston underground mixtape giant, boasted over 3.5 million hits on his personal website prior to his major label deal [...]

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