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Blip Adds Product Head, Board Member

Video network Blip, which brought in a new leader earlier this year, now has a new head of product: Former Adweek executive Doug Ferguson will report to CEO Kelly Day. Blip has also added Mahalo president Jason Rapp to its board of directors.

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News Corp. Mulls Splitting in Two

Nearly a year after the newspaper hacking scandal rocked Rupert Murdoch’s empire, the conglomerate considers the split investors have been clamoring for.

BermanBraun’s Mom.me Enters the Crowded Parenting Space, Offering “Mass With Class”

A new site aimed at “moms who happen to be parents.”
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Google’s $1.5 Billion Ad Bill

Google made some $37 billion selling ads last year. But it’s a big ad buyer, too: The search giant spent an estimated $1.5 billion selling itself in 2011, Ad Age reports. That number will jump significantly this year, since Google is now in the phone-selling business, courtesy of its $12.5 billion Motorola acquisition.

Download Demand for Steve Jobs at D Podcasts Strong

In just under a month, the “Steve Jobs at D: All Things Digital” podcasts have racked up millions of downloads on iTunes.
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Hollywood’s Ari Emanuel Has Strong Opinions About Content: The Full D10 Interview (Video)

The Hollywood super-agent unplugged (as if he is ever plugged).
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I/O Preview: Google Set This Week to Challenge Amazon, Sonos, Apple and … Oh, Just Fill in the Blank Here

Here are the big product announcements to expect at I/O, which runs from Wednesday to Friday at Moscone Center in San Francisco.
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Turing, Interrupted

He was a complex man and much loved by many. Had he been better understood when he was young — and if I, among others, had treated him with more consideration — he might be alive today.

– Alan Turing’s late older brother, John, in an essay begun a few years after his brother’s death in 1955 and published this year, the 100th anniversary of Turing’s birth

The New York Times Gets All the News That’s Fit to Print — All of It — Into Flipboard

It’s the first time you can read all of the Times on a site or app not owned by the Times. And it’s the first time Flipboard has gotten a big publisher to hand over all its content.
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Viral Video: Bella Is a Really Mean Sparkly Vampire

But being undead does finally make her interesting.
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Microsoft is Back! (Comic)