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Unless movie studios cave, we should stop getting our hopes up for an imminent release. The tech world has been running wild with a cornucopia of stories surrounding Apple's all but confirmed television set. From a la carte cable services and environmentally-efficient data centers to my own list...

After a mountain of speculation, the Wall Street Journal is providing us with MORE speculation! Last March, word started to spread that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) was looking for Hollywood talent to bring fresh and original (and presumably scripted) content to YouTube. The news quickly died down after...

Dave Pietrycha has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for NBC News. This announcement was made today by NBC News President Steve Capus. In his role, Pietrycha will be responsible for the financial oversight of all NBC News broadcasts and platforms, including MSNBC. Most...

NBC News, National Journal, The St. Petersburg Times, and the Florida Council of 100 have announced that their Republican presidential primary debate will take place on Monday, January 30, 2012. The event will fall on the eve of the Florida primary, which state officials today declared will be...

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams was America's number one newscast for the week ending September 18, 2011, according to Nielsen Media Research data. The NBC broadcast delivered an average of 8.219 million total viewers, +974,000 more than ABC "World News'" 7.245 million, and +2,484,000 million...

It's a twist on that old NBC sitcoms slogan: if you haven't used it, it's new to you! GameStop (NYSE: GME), the world's largest retailer of video games new and used, is getting ready to sell consumers a specially-branded tablet that will neither be new nor special. According to GamesIndustry.biz...

A very good episode of DatelineNBC exploring how one town (Millen, GA) serves as a microcosm for what has happened across the country, not just in the past 3-4 years but slowly over the past 15+.  As the factories go, the knock off effects are difficult - and in smaller towns devastating.  No...

FRANKFURT - Gold burst through $1,700 an ounce in Asia on Monday as investors dropped riskier assets and ran to the safety of the ancient currency. Markets were sharply down in Asia in the first day of trading after Standard & Poor's downgraded the sovereign debt rating of the US to AA+ from...

Menlo Park, California-based startup Badgeville announced that it has closed a $12 million Series B round of funding, led by Norwest Venture Partners and El Dorado Ventures. The additional capital will be used to ramp its business. Badgeville builds loyalty programs for media and e-commerce...

R.E.M. once sang about this moment. “It's the end of the world as we know it,” Michael Stipe sang loudly. He repeated those words a few hundred times, just be certain that we got the message. Today, we're getting that message loud and clear. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wants to take Hulu off the hands...

According to Goldman Sachs, The Office ended strongly. Goldman Sachs said that, “NBC finished with a 1.8 rating last week, down 5% yoy. The hour-long season finale of The Office posted a 3.9 rating on Thursday, making it the highest rated scripted series for the night. The episode featured a spate...

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) was up more than 30% in morning trading after the company said that it had hired Blackstone Advisory Partners to evaluate possible investment partners and explore "other opportunities." In a statement today Martha Stewart said: "As the founder and...

It seems that YouTube users' homegrown shtick is no longer enough for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). According to the Financial Times, the company is prepared to pay “cash advances against future advertising revenues in return for lending their name to these channels and overseeing the content.” That's an...

“Pay no attention to that big red/white 4 in your stream,” WXYZ anchorman Stephen Clark (@sclarkwxyz) tweeted this morning. “They don't understand twitter. They'll learn.” Clark is a Michigan anchorman for the Detroit-area ABC affiliate. The “big red/white 4” he refers to belongs to WDIV, the...

Now that the Sheen has hit the fan for CBS' (NYSE: CBS) most popular comedy, what should the leading television network do next? Ultimately, CBS must (and will) replace Charlie Sheen. It would be foolish to cancel the show without at least trying to move forward. But if the producers can't come up...