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Bloomberg.com May Charge Up To $1,000 A Year For News Feeds

PaidContent  Nov 04 09

All aboard the paid content bandwagon: having signaled that its newly acquired Businessweek.com may raise the paywall for certain types of content, Bloomberg is now considering charging Bloomberg.com users up to $1,000 a year to access certain areas of the site from next year.

WSJ reports, citing sources, that Bloomberg.com could sell subscriptions to certain news feeds, bringing the company’s consumer-facing division closer to its subscription only Bloomberg Professional service, which costs $1,500 a month.

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Mutual Funds Go Cable Shopping

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Large media mutual funds appeared to be taking advantage of low-priced stocks and making bets on an improved advertising environment in the third quarter, beefing up on shares of CBS (NYSE: CBS) and News Corp (NYSE: NWS).

Shanda's Hurray Acquires Video Site Ku6.com

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China’s Shanda (NSDQ: SNDA) is adding online video to its growing digital media empire, through the acquisition of user-gen video site Ku6.

Report: PE Firms Investing $180 Million In Chinese Web Portal Sina

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Three private equity houses are investing $180 million in web portal Sina (NSDQ: SINA), one of China’s biggest online businesses, according to reports from Reuters.

Another One Bites The Dust: BitTorrent Giant Mininova Forced To Go Legal

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It calls itself “the ultimate BitTorrent source”, but P2P tracker Mininova has now removed almost all links to copyrighted content after complying with a cease-and-desist court ruling in August from Dutch entertainment rightsholder group Brein.

Videos: BBC's Thompson On 2010's Online Diet, Free News

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As I reported on Tuesday, a strategy review with which the BBC Trust has charged director-general Mark Thompson with leading seems certain to downsize the BBC’s online heft - and perhaps cut some digital channels, too - in response to commercial rivals’ concern.

PaidContent Quick Hits: Thanksgiving Edition: More News Than You Want

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Telegraph Editor Lewis Made Digital MD, Launches New 'Entrepreneurial' Division

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UK’s Telegraph Media Group editor-in-chief Will Lewis is becoming the company’s managing director for digital, and will head a new “entrepreneurial” division with 50 staff to lead the company’s search for new revenue streams.

Google Tests A New Look For Its Search Pages

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With both Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) overhauling the user interfaces of their search engines, it only made sense that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) would want to tweak the look of its site too.

Google Tests A New Look Look For Its Search Pages

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With both Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) overhauling the user interfaces of their search engines, it only made sense that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) would want to tweak the look of its search engine too.

PaidContent Quick Hits 11.25.09

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