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Google Strikes Deal With Paramount: YouTube To Add 500 Movie Titles For Rental

The latest deal with Paramount means Google has rental deals with five of the six major Hollywood studios, including Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, Universal Pictures, and Sony Pictures. The lone exception is 20th Century Fox, which is owned by Rupert M
Google announced a new deal with Paramount Pictures on Tuesday, which will make more than 500 movie titles available for rental on YouTube and the new Google Play platform. The deal was made even though Google is still embroiled in a four-year-old legal battle over copyrights with Paramount's parent company, Viacom.
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Amazon eyes ad dollars in consumer packaged goods

Amazon.com Inc is trying to grab some of the billions of advertising dollars spent each year by consumer packaged goods companies including Kimberly-Clark Corp, as the world's largest Internet retailer seeks new sources of revenue growth.
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iPhone 4 Owners Can Get $15 From Apple's 'Antennagate' Settlement: Find Out How

Following the whole Antennagate debacle, Apple iPhone 4 owners can now collect a cool $15 in cash settlement for their phone's antenna issues. A Web page with the inspired name of iPhone4settlement.com has popped up and gone live on Thursday, March 29, allowing iPhone 4 owners affected by the smartphone's antenna troubles to collect their cash settlement.
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New iPad 3 4G Label Controversy Spreads Outside Australia

Apple's new iPad, launched on March 16, has received great early reviews in the United States, but is being battered in the rest of the world. After being criticized for misleading people into believing that the new iPad can run on Australian 4G network, Apple is now facing complaints in several countries, as the new iPad seems to be mostly incompatible with 4G networks outside North America.
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Menswear Fuels Global Luxury Boom, Executives Say

Whether it's a desire to be as dapper as Don Draper on television's Mad Men, a need to look good for a job interview or just a hankering for new duds, men have increased their spending on fancy clothes, and executives expect the boom to continue.
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What Is Viralism? An Inquiry Into Culture's Battle For Digital Space

As the digital age reaches the dormant stage of social adaptation, having left its mark on the daily process of culture at large, can we add viralism or another digitally referential marker to our collective art discourse? Moreover, is viral a relevant -- let alone acceptable -- aesthetic stance?
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New iPad 3 4G Label Brings Apple Legal Trouble in Australia

The new iPad is garnering success for Apple, but the little beauty is also plaguing the company with legal woes that won't just end here. Apple has launched the new iPad in Australia with a plethora of advertisements showing off the awesome features of the one tablet to rule them all. Unfortunately, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is not pleased, not one bit.
Magic Johnson Buys Dodgers: Timeline of Athlete's Tumultuous, Legendary Career

Magic Johnson To Buy Dodgers For $2 Billion: Timeline of Athlete's Tumultuous, Legendary Career

Johnson and his partners are buying the Los Angeles Dodgers from owner Frank McCourt for a record $2 billion, yet another chapter in the life of a perennial comeback kid and a sign that the Dodgers are in good hands. Take a look back at Johnson's tumultuous but ultimately legendary career in our timeline of the American icon here, and see how his struggles in the past could help the L.A. Dodgers in the future.
FTC Urges Lawmakers to Pass Consumer Privacy Laws

FTC Urges Lawmakers to Pass Consumer Privacy Laws: What Next?

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) stepped up its game on Monday, March 26, and urged Congress to enact laws for protecting users' online privacy. In addition, the FTC also called on companies to speed up self-regulation, so Internet users can gain more control over their personal data.
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U.S. Regulators Push for Online 'Do Not Track' System

U.S. regulators are pressuring Internet companies to put in place by the end of the year a Do Not Track system that would give consumers more control over their personal data online, in a report released on Monday that privacy advocates dismissed as too soft.

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