There have been some shake ups at Hearst this week and it is only just beginning. Just one day after new digital advisor was hired to assist CEO Frank Bennack Jr, the company is threatening to shut down the...
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Teen magazine CosmoGirl will shut down as of December 2008, following the likes of Elle Girl and Teen People who also went under in the past years."The subscriber base will be folded into fellow Hearst title...
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The final issue of CosmoGIRL! Magazine will be this December, as Hearst Magazines has decided to close shop on the teen fashion rag, to concentrate on its most successful publication, Seventeen magazine. ...
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At least 900 people were evacuated by helicopter on Sunday from a First Nation's community along the coast of James Bay, due to flooding fears. As rivers continue to swell after ice melt and rain, areas of the...
Writer Bill Richards believes the technology of Amazon's new wireless electronic book-reader, Kindle, will have a huge impact on the newspaper business. Take away circulation, ink, and paper expenses, and suddenly...
Now here is a fascinating story by Bill Richards is a former Wall Street Journal and Washington Post reporter who covered the Seattle newspapers' joint operating agreement for The Seattle Times under a three-year contract that ended in 2005. He creates a hypothetical paper...
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A very good tool that can only get better. Any homeowner interested in getting a ballpark home valuation should check it out."In what Zillow.com President Lloyd Frink is calling a "groundbreaking partnership," the Seattle online real estate startup has signed a deal to...
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The rich and famous have always fascinated me, particularly after watching the classic 1941 film Citizen Kane. The movie by Orson Welles traces the life of the fictional Charles Foster Kane, whose rise to...
Theremin and glockenspiel doing the honors for ice-cream trucks. Read the story, but be sure to listen to the music... what a great idea and a cool song, too."But Hearst's childlike new release has done the...
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Being a traditional, ink-and-paper 2-D cartoonist in a 3-D digital world is a tough gig. Those who survive do so because they know how to promote themselves, and use the viral, crowd-motivated nature of the net to...
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"So you are sitting in your home in Los Angeles and you notice that among the available WiFi networks in your area, you have your own at&t DSL connection, a neighbors cable based wireless signal, and one from...
Does anything sound better than getting your average teen magazine subscription through your mobile? I know..."Annexing mobile real estate has become a big priority for companies that once lived and died on ad-page sales and circulation alone. Last year's shutdown of...
One dramatic display will feature a 30-foot painted scroll depicting
the epic of Pabuji, a semi-divine folk hero. Traditionally, the Pabuji
tale is recounted in a 36-hour performance by professional
storytellers,...
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John Flinn is a travel reporter for SF Gate (the online portal for the San Francisco Chronicle, where the Hearst Corp. accountants choked on "an official receipt for the six bucks I was robbed of by Maoist...
"Like Skype, the main attraction of Jingle Networks is to destroy a fat existing market. Skype gave users a way to bypass costly telephone calls by routing them over the internet for free. Jingle Networks, through its 1-800-Free-411 service, is helping to destroy the $8...