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With of today's update to its iPhone app The Scoop, The New York Times may have accomplished something that advertisers and publishers often boast about but rarely achieve — it may have found a genuinely useful way to incorporate sponsored content.
More from TechCrunch With of today's update to its iPhone app The Scoop, The New York Times may have accomplished something that advertisers and publishers often boast about but rarely achieve — it may have found a genuinely useful way to incorporate sponsored content.
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As we noted in the context of antibiotics, it's well recognized that financial incentives cause the pharmaceutical industry to engage in research that tends to maximize profits rather than maximizing the health of the public.
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It's been a bad few weeks for some big brand advertisers, as a slew of offensive commercials had to be pulled and disowned by the likes of Pepsi, GM and Hyundai.
More from TechDirt We just posted about Prince's NPG Records issuing DMCA takedowns on a set of Vine videos. While noting that Prince regularly seeks to shut down internet support of his work far beyond what the law allows, we also pointed out that, given the 6 second limit on Vine videos, it seemed almost certain that the videos in question would be protected as fair use and/or de minimis use.
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More from Most Hired The EFF has a blog post about a very troubling ruling in a Georgia state court that effectively orders the censoring of an anti-copyright trolling blog including user comments.
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Over the last few years, Techdirt has been reporting on a steady stream of victories for open access.
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What many people don't realize is that Sand Hill Road VCs are not all sitting on the sidelines as seed and angel investors have their moment in the sun.
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Location: Boston, MA
URL: www.trueoffice.com
True Office:
As
an emerging startup in the Corporate Compliance training space, True
Office is uniquely poised to disrupt a $7bn market.
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Phones with screens larger than 5 inches (diagonal) are often called “phablets” based being larger than phones, but smaller than tablets.
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We've written a few times about Judge Paul Michel, the former Chief Judge for CAFC, the appeals court that handles all appeals in patent cases.
More from TechDirt Earlier this afternoon, I started seeing a bunch of tweets from science fiction writers and fans about what looked a big screw up at PayPal.
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