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Tim Cook To Talk Apple Cash, Foxconn Responds To Mike Daisey Retraction, Esther Dyson On Where All The Cool Companies Are

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NPR Launches An Answer To Spotify On The iPad With Streaming, Concerts, Offline Playlists

Today, NPR launched the NPR Music app for the iPad, a new platform that gives listeners access to streaming content, first-listen albums, and live concerts. But why should a nonprofit care about this kind of innovation? READ MORE›

NPR Hearts Urban Outfitters, But The Feeling's Not Mutual

In a sweeping tale of brand confusion, our penniless hero NPR and rich merchant Urban Outfitters collude to sell a T-Shirt bearing NPR's logo. But the saga has a dark twist: Urban Outfitter's actions could financially kneecap NPR. READ MORE›

NPR Launching Centralized Online Ad Network to Bolster Revenue at Member Stations

While NPR fights a defunding battle, the network unleashes a new weapon: A proprietary advertising network that will allow geo-targeted sponsoring of live streams.READ MORE›

NPR Scandal Explodes Plans for New Social Media Campaign

By now, many have heard about NPR's outgoing Senior Vice President for Development Ron Schiller railing against Tea Partiers and the need for public funding. But what most don't know is that the comments theaten to derail NPR's massive new social media campaign. READ MORE›

NPR CEO Vivian Schiller "Ousted" Amid Political Fallout

Barely two years after she arrived, Vivian Schiller has resigned from her post as CEO of NPR. What we're looking at, at least in the latter case, is a new kind of political dirty trick: the ACORN-ing or Planned Parenthood-ing, this time of a major news org.READ MORE›

Why the NYT Should Go NPR

There's a lot of harrumphing around the blogosphere about the New York Times' decision to again put up paywalls for digital access (the last attempt, TimesSelect, was shuttered in 2007). People are gaming out the angles: Have they chosen the right price points at as much as $20 a month? READ MORE›

Karaoke! Espionage! Haute Cuisine!: Adventures in the North Korean Government's Restaurant Chain

Dishes are approved by the Dear Leader but guaranteed not to make you Il. By expanding into Dubai and Amsterdam, the NK government's eateries are providing an alternative to arms sales in raising foreign capital. Food not bombs, indeed!READ MORE›

Pony Up: Wikipedia Needs $16 Million to Stay Ad-Free

Fund-raising pleas play on populist spirit, tried-and-true NPR-style guilt-tripping.READ MORE›

Harrisburg University's Social Media Ban Lifted, Addictions Soothed

Earlier this month, Harrisburg University began a weeklong ban of social media. The blackout has since ended. Somehow, above all odds, the students survived.READ MORE›

Influence Test: University Bans Social Media for a Week

Would you be able to survive without Facebook, Twitter, and other social media tools? That's what students at Harrisburg are being told to do.READ MORE›

Power Players and Profanity: Talking About Talking Dirty

General Patton was once quoted as saying, "When I want it to stick, I give it to them loud and dirty." That's consistent with the idea that words are just tools in an executive toolbox.READ MORE›

NPR Music's Fantastic iPhone App Makes You Thankful for Multitasking

iOS 4's multitasking might be limited, but it allows background music streaming--good thing, too, because NPR Music's new iPhone app is fantastic.READ MORE›

The iPad Shines a Light at the End of the News Design Tunnel

Giovanni Calabro surveys the new face of news design by tracking one story across iPad apps by USA Today, NPR, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.READ MORE›

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The iPad App Store Is Open, for All Twelve People Who Have iPads Right Now

Apple popped the iPad's apps into the App Store today, a couple days ahead of the actual product's release--let's call it a preview (of how expensive iPad apps will be).READ MORE›

A Look at the Ever-Expanding Podcast Universe

Revenue Ads/Sponsorships Hosts read live commercials. Almost all ads have a promo code to track response. Ads on a popular show (2 million monthly downloads) command $25 to $35 per 1,000 impressions. "There are advertisers who ...READ MORE›

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Longer Lines at Starbucks a Sign of Better Days?

Yes, says a guy on the radio.READ MORE›

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