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A Surprise Winner at the Olympic Games in Beijing: NBC
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:51pm EDT by By BILL CARTER and RICHARD SANDOMIR
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The Olympics has become the hottest event of the summer, drawing an average audience of about 30 million a night on NBC, far beyond the network’s expectations.
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Media Talk: Fox News Joins a Social Network, but Not Its Parent’s Site
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:19pm EDT by By BRIAN STELTER
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Fox News Channel wants more friends. But instead of using the News Corporation’s own social network, it’s choosing to network on the site’s chief rival, Facebook.
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Media Talk: Serving 3 Brands: Burger King, Google and Seth MacFarlane
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:19pm EDT by By BROOKS BARNES
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Seth MacFarlane, creator of the “Family Guy,” is teaming up with Google and Burger King to animate both an online series and ads to go with it.
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Media Talk: ‘Gossip Girl’ DVD Extra Tries to Steer Buyers to the Books
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:18pm EDT by By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN
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The DVD set “Gossip Girl: The Complete First Season” includes a free electronic version of the original novel on which the show is based. But — OMG! — it’s an audio book.
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New Web Site Aims to Be Facebook for Sports Fans
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:18pm EDT by By RICHARD SANDOMIR
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David Katz believes that his Web site, sportsfanlive.com, will compete well against established sports sites he views as stodgy and too congested for fans to wade through.
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Looking Ahead: The Week’s Major Economic Reports
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Reports will include housing starts, the Producer Price Index for July, and the Conference Board’s index of leading economic indicators for July.
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Drilling Down: Web Videos Where Ads Are Acceptable
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:10pm EDT by By ALEX MINDLIN
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People are far more tolerant of ads when they accompany professionally created content than when they come with homemade video, according to a new survey.
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In Kenya, Mobile Growth Also Benefits Ad Agencies
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:08pm EDT by By ERIC PFANNER
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Telecommunications companies are expected to spend about 4.7 billion Kenyan shillings (or $72 million) on advertising this year, according to a Nairobi-based newspaper.
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Topic Pages to Be Hub of New BusinessWeek Site
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:08pm EDT by By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
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BusinessWeek magazine is about to introduce a site that hosts hundreds of topic pages, on subjects as broad as the housing market and as narrow as the Boeing 787.
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Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:07pm EDT
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The Treasury’s schedule of financing this week includes the regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday.
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Link by Link: Like Politics? Broadcast Your View for Only $6
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:04pm EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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Saysme.tv didn’t invent the loudmouth, but, as the company’s logo indicates, it sure hopes to sell him a megaphone.
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The Media Equation: The Enquirer: Even Scandal Can Be News
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:04pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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To those who look at American tabloid culture and say “good riddance,” I say, not so fast.
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Amid Conference Halls and Keynote Speakers, a Rivalry Forms
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:04pm EDT by By BRAD STONE
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TechCrunch50, a new entrant in the technology conference market, has sparked a dispute over the ethics of the convention circuit and the fees charged to participants.
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Cost of Retail Survival: 99¢. Or Maybe 99¢ Plus.
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:39am EDT by By MICHAEL WILSON
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At many 99-cent stores, the signs still advertise rock-bottom prices, but much of the merchandise costs more.
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Los Angeles Times Announces Hiring of New Publisher
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:33am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Eddy W. Hartenstein, a former head of DirecTV, will become publisher of The Los Angeles Times, the newspaper reported.
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Square Feet | Ventures: Acres of Farmland and, Maybe, Profits
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:20am EDT by By VIVIAN MARINO
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Farmland in general is considered an excellent diversifier: historically, the returns are negatively correlated with stocks but tend to track inflation.
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Stocks Lack Direction Even as Oil Declines
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:15am EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The price of oil fell during the week while inflation in July rose to a 5.6 percent annual rate, a 17-year high. There was no clear direction for the stock market.
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Letters: Tax Cuts and the Rich
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:14am EDT
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Letters in response to a recent article about tax cuts.
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Off the Shelf: A Journalist in B-School Wonderland
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:11am EDT by By HARRY HURT III
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“Ahead of the Curve” is a cautionary tale for those who believe that the grass would be greener if only they could jump the fence into the rarefied world of the Masters of Business Administration.
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Economic View: How Fuel Subsidies Drag Down a Nation
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:10am EDT by By ROBERT H. FRANK
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When countries adopted bad economic policies in decades past, only their own citizens paid a price. In today’s globalized economy, however, the burden falls more broadly.
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Strategies: Illusions About Inflation
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:09am EDT by By MARK HULBERT
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If other things are equal, the value of a company’s future earnings will be lower to the extent that inflation is higher. But other things are not equal when it comes to stocks and inflation.
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Essay: At School, Technology Starts to Turn a Corner
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:09am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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As a new school year begins, the time may have come to reconsider how large a role technology can play in changing education.
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Ping: Digital Designers Rediscover Their Hands
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:08am EDT by By G. PASCAL ZACHARY
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A little-noticed movement in the world of professional design and engineering has designers learning to innovate with the aid of their hands.
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The Count: In Most Areas, Home Values Keep Sliding
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:07am EDT by By PHYLLIS KORKKI
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The latest housing numbers from Zillow, the real estate research firm, are littered with minus signs.
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Suits: Traversing Time and Place on the Job
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 1:53am EDT
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Josh Bernstein’s horizons are about to become wider with the premiere of his new Discovery Channel series.
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At Least the Airsickness Bags Are Free
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 1:51am EDT by By MICHELINE MAYNARD
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In just a few short months, the airlines have discovered to their glee that their customers are willing to pay for most everything from checked bags to pillows and blankets.
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Fair Game: A Bond Market, Starved for Sunshine
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 1:45am EDT by By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
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Nowhere is disclosure more urgent than in the $2.6 trillion municipal securities market, an arena where information is scant.
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Looking for Swing Votes in the Boardroom
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 1:21am EDT by By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and STEVE LOHR
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As both presidential candidates prepare for the party conventions and publicly spar over economic issues and energy policy, they are also trying to win over big business.
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Television: Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:41am EDT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
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Jon Stewart says his job is just throwing spitballs. But in satirizing a world that defies satire, “The Daily Show” delivers both news and morality.
