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Zagat Books A Table With Foursquare; Restaurant Maven Reaches For Mobile App's Cool Factor

PaidContent  Feb 09 10

Location-based social net Foursquare is on a roll when it comes to netting high-profile media partnerships. The latest is restaurant reviews guide Zagat, the NYT reports. By hooking up with Foursquare, Zagat may be hoping to bid up its own cool cache. The reviews site’s image suffered a bit among media industry observers when it failed to find a buyer who would meet its for-sale price. The timing of this partnership comes right on the heels of deals of Foursquare’s deals with NBC Universal’s Bravo and Canadian commuter daily Metro.

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More Details Leak Out About Google's Plans For The Set-Top Box

PaidContent  3 hours ago

More details are coming in about what Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may have in store for the set-top box.

Long-Serving Yahoo Ash Patel Prepares To Exit

PaidContent  3 hours ago

After 14 years with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Ash Patel is finally ready to call it quits this week, we have confirmed.

Hyperlocal Newswire Fwix To Provide Content To NYTCo Properties

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The NYTCo’s local content efforts are getting a quick boost from hyperlocal newswire Fwix.

Deep Discounts On Smartphones Drive U.S. Adoption Rates To Nearly A Third

PaidContent  5 hours ago

Special offers on many of the popular smartphones in the fourth quarter drove penetration to nearly a third in the U.

What Drove Yahoo's Purchase Of Citizen Sports

PaidContent  5 hours ago

To buy or to build? That’s the question that drove Yahoo’s decision to buy social sports startup Citizen Sports, which owns a series of sports-related apps on the iPhone and on Facebook, according to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) media head James Pitaro.

Scripps Networks' Lisa Choi Owens Gets Oversight Of Digital Media Group

PaidContent  7 hours ago

Scripps Networks (NYSE: SNI) is promoting Lisa Choi Owens to SVP of digital media, which will give her oversight of the cable net’s websites and chart the further development of its mobile and social media programs.

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Video: Tim Armstrong On AOL's Big Push Into Local

PaidContent  9 hours ago

AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong went on CNBC today to discuss AOL’s local news.

AOL Sets Up Venture Fund To Back Local Startups

PaidContent  9 hours ago

AOL (NYSE: AOL)—which is doubling down on its own local efforts—is now setting up a venture capital fund to invest in the local space.

Google's Trademark Application for 'Nexus One' Is Denied; Launches On Sprint Next

PaidContent  10 hours ago

Just as Google (NSDQ: GOOG) starts being more aggressive at rolling out the Nexus One to more carriers, it was socked in the gut with this bad news: its trademark application for the phone has been denied.



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