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• Three Years Later, Buying MySpace Looks Like One Of Murdoch’s Smartest Bets
  Three years ago today, Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and its parent company Intermix for $580 million. That turned out to be money well spent. The last time we ran the numbers, we figured that MySpace alone is worth between $3 billion and $20 billion, depending on how much you value each user. Fox Interactive Media (which is mostly MySpace) accounted for about $850 million in revenues last fiscal year (which ended in June), and is projected to hit $1 billion next year.
  (tags: myspace socialnetworking techcrunch)
• News | BBC looks to create open standard IPTV platform – NMA
  The BBC is looking to create an open industry standard IPTV platform to enable content providers to easily launch internet TV services, according to Erik Huggers, the broadcaster's director of future media & technology speaking at mipcom.
  (tags: bbc iptv)
• Shiny Shiny: Apricot enters the UMPC market with the PicoBook Pro
  Remember Apricot? It probably depends how old you are, as though the brand has been around for years, it hasn't been available in the UK for the last ten. Well they're making a comeback in a big way with the launch of the PicoBook Pro, a new UMPC.
  (tags: apricot umpc netbooks)
• Global Survey: Blogging journalists, two cultures collide – editorsweblog
  In a recent survey, 200 blogging journalists from 30 different countries were interviewed about the effects of blogging on the process of journalism. According to the survey, respondents came from all sectors of the news industry; almost half worked in the newspaper industry, and one third were online-only or freelance.
  (tags: newspapers blogging journalism)
• Techdirt: Dear Newspapers: Locking Up Archives Shrinks Your Business
  Be sure to read the comments that follow this opinion piece.
  (tags: archives newspapers)
• News | Digital radio listening up 22% on last year – NMA
  The amount of people listening to radio via a digital platform has increased yet again up 22% year-on-year, according to the latest Rajar figures.
  (tags: podcasts mobile radio)
• The Google Phone Review: What I Love & Hate About T-Mobile G-1 – GigaOM
  Om Malik's take on the new Google phone.
  (tags: google mobile android)
• Media facing 'carnage', warns Guardian News & Media's Emily Bell | Media | guardian.co.uk
  As many as five national newspapers could fold within two years in a worst-case scenario as the media suffers unprecedented carnage, Guardian News & Media executive Emily Bell has warned.
• Newspaper websites warned to expand horizons | Media | guardian.co.uk
  Caroline Little, former publisher of WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive, told a media industry conference today that newspapers needed to be as experimental as possible when looking for a future on the web.
• Android phone arrives in two weeks | IT PRO
  Google phone (because that's what people will call it) coming soon to the UK.

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