Archive for November 14th, 2007

Is this the end of TV?

TELEVISION is dying.

Some bleak comments from the writer of Lost about the impact of the current strike by TV writers.  Is this the death nail?

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You and Me and No TV WCBS: Thomas Haden Church gets interviewed

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NowPublic: 10th biggest VC financing in Canada this Quarter

Brent Holliday, a partner with Greenstone Venture Partners, pointed out that …The CVCA said two B.C. companies were among the top-10 disclosed deals for the quarter, with Strangeloop Networks getting $11.5 million and NowPublic Technologies receiving $11.6 million, putting those companies at ninth and 10th spots respectively.

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Yahoo! Agrees to Pay Prisoners’ Families

Congressional representatives made it clear to Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang that apologies wouldn’t be enough to quell their anger over Yahoo’s role in the jailing of a Chinese journalist (BusinessWeek.com, 11/6/07).

What the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee really wanted from Yang during a Nov. 6 hearing was a pledge that Yahoo would not cooperate with future requests from foreign governments for information that might be used to punish political dissidents. At the very least, committee members wanted Yahoo to pay for its past cooperation with the Chinese government.

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