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Former “The Tonight Show” host Conan O’Brien has been given a whopping $45 million settlement to walk away “gracefully” from NBC which means keeping his mouth firmly shut.
The row over Chinese hackers illegally accessing the emails of human rights activists has escalated to global proportions with high profile officials exchanging a war of words.
A gun manufacturer that came under fire from critics for inscribing biblical references onto its rifles has decided to stop putting such references on products used by the military.
Volunteers have recovered scores more corpses in Nigeria’s central Plateau state following violent and religiously motivated clashes which erupted in recent days.
The world’s markets are reeling after French and British politicians have offered cautious backing to a recommendation by President Barack Obama to curb banks’ size and risk-taking.
When the New York Times published its list of most-viewed stories of 2009, a post from the Well Blog, “The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating,” ranked near the top […]
To boil down the philosophy behind today’s burgeoning biomimicry field: mother nature knows best. Biomimicry subscribers believe that nature knows (far better than do we technology-obsessed humans) how to get […]
With his election to the Senate in a staunchly Democratic state, Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) has quickly become the Republican Party’s presumptive new savior. Even though he is just assuming […]
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Will search engines and social media kill the “gatekeepers” that stand between individuals and mass audiences?
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A guide to the new media landscape for those at the top, and the bottom, of the heap.
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Which “old-media” leaders and companies are innovating most successfully? What is it that they’re doing right? Google News’s Josh Cohen weighs in.
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From the carefully developed Google Wave to improvised adjustments to the Twitter phenomenon, Josh Cohen reveals what’s next for the search giant.
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Who wins or loses if publishers like Rupert Murdoch start walling off content from Google News?
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Google cares about whether quality news survives, says Josh Cohen. But what about quality newspapers?
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Google’s mission is to organize all the world’s information. If new media walls go up, will they have to compete to organize as much of it as possible?
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Or is neither side in the wrong? A Google News exec fields the most common criticisms leveled at his company.
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Josh Cohen suggests how old media companies might successfully repackage their content, but warns that easy fixes are unlikely.
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How Google News was born, how it’s grown up, and what it’s still learning.
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An inside look at the Google News search algorithm and how it differs from its more famous parent.
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A conversation with the senior business product manager of Google News.