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Redbox Launches Event-Ticketing Service
Redbox is making a push into the event-ticketing market amid fears that demand for DVD rentals is declining
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Roger Birnbaum Steps Down as Co-Chairman, Co-CEO of MGM; Gary Barber Takes Control
Roger Birnbaum will remain at the company as a producer, exclusively developing projects for the studio
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Digital Studio Execs Insist ‘Everything Is Moving in the Right Direction’ for Online Video
Executives from Maker Studios, Bedrocket Media and NBC Universal's president of digital talked growing online video audiences and advertising revenue at TheGrill 2012
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NY Times Circumvents Apple With HTML5 Web App for iPad
The New York Times' new web app, optimized for the iPad, negates the need for the app available in the iTunes App Store
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Jerry Seinfeld Really Irritated With NY Times Column About ‘Really?’
A New York Times writer claimed the Jerry Seinfeld catchphrase is "undoing 2,000 years' worth of human progress"
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How HSN Stopped Screaming at People and Became a Media Arcade
"We're not Amazon, we're not an aggregator of products — we're a curator of products," HSN CEO Mindy Grossman told TheGrill
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Where Hollywood Sees Art, Silicon Valley Sees ‘Bits & Bytes’; Who’s Winning?
Studios still play a critical role in the media ecosystem, just not as large and domineering a position as in the past, AllThingsD's Kara Swisher tells TheWrap's Sharon Waxman at TheGrill
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Junot Diaz Named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow
Junot Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican novelist, Ethiopian-born writer Dinaw Mengestu are among 23 MacArthur fellows
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Washington Post Co. Acquires Majority Stake in Hospice Firm
As its education unit loses money, the media company is making a foray into health care
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John Travolta Spa-Sex Libel Suit Dismissed (Updated)
John Travolta and his lawyer were facing libel charges filed by the man who wrote a book detailing the actor's alleged sexcapades in spas
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For Web Video Viewing, TV Now Eclipses the PC
TV and the PC have reversed roles in the last year when it comes to streaming video
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Al Gore to Anchor 2 Presidential Debates on Current TV (Updated)
Al Gore, the former vice president and one of the network's founders, will lead Current's coverage of the first and third Obama-Romney showdowns
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