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Glam Media, an online hub for women, and Global Grind, an online hub for the hip-hop community, are joining forces. On Thursday the two Web sites introduced a Managed Vertical Network (MVN) of sites and blogs for the hip-hop community. Lots of leverage involved in the network, ranging from Glam Media’s publishing network (500 publishers) [...]

Intel’s lawyers these days may be logging even longer hours. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation against the chipmaker. The FTC investigation comes a few months after New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo started a separate investigation into Intel’s business practices. Advanced Micros Devices has filed an antitrust suit in [...]

We’ve heard of scaling media, but this is ridiculous. A French climber on Thursday scaled the north face of the The New York Times building, and still had time to leave a message. You’ll see.

Isn’t going to the movies supposed to be an escape from BlackBerrys and other hand-held devices? Apparently not. Verizon Wireless has introduced a text messaging polling program for moviegoers. The interactive program debuts in mid-June in 10 (major) markets and during 3,500 show times. It asks moviegoers questions about their musical preferences (does Jascha Heifetz [...]

Susan Decker, president of Yahoo, didn’t disappoint at the opening session of the Advertising 2.0 confab in New York on Wednesday. In a one-on-one session with Jonah Bloom, editor of Advertising Age, Decker made several announcements, including the addition of 94 more newspapers to Yahoo’s online advertising consortium and a program to create online circulars. [...]

Grape juice, cow manure and unicellular algae are all ‘plausible’ feedstocks for future biofuels, according to alpha-mythbuster Jamie Hyneman. Old tires, dirty diapers and raindrops? Not so much. [via Mother Jones]

I have a difficult enough time figuring out my first life, never mind the prospects of a second life. But if Second Life — a virtual environment — is good enough for Marge Simpson it’s good enough for me. Now, Second Life is going mobile. On Tuesday 3G streaming services provider Vollee started to offer a [...]

Social media is all the rage. But making money from social media is a different matter. The relationship between between Web traffic and revenue is an imprecise one, according to an article posted yesterday on eMarketer. Written by senior analyst David Hallerman, the article includes some very interesting charts on social media provided by [...]

They’re off to the races for measuring electronic content. iTVX, which measures branded entertainment in TV and movies, launched a system Monday to measure the value of branded content and product placement in online video. The deal comes less than a week after digital-number cruncher comScore acquired M:Metrics, which tracks the value of mobile media. [...]

LiveU Inc., which develops and markets technologies that transmit live video over wireless networks, just got a financial shot in the arm. On Tuesday the company announced that it raised $9 million in a second round of financing. Venture capital firms Canaan Partners and Carmel Ventures ponied up the dollars. Ori Bendori, general partner of [...]