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Jackie Hernandez Talks Cross-Promotion At NBCUniversal

Creative marketers are launching new efforts to reach the Latin American community. Jackie Hernández, 45, oversees all domestic revenue, marketing, and digital media for Telemundo and Mun2 (the Latino Youth cable network).READ»

How Groupon Funders Find Their Next Investment: "Office Hours"

Lightbank is not your father's Sand Hill Road VC firm. That's why they're using an unconventional approach to finding the next big thing.READ»

Hulu CEO Threatened to Quit Over Hulu Plus Pricing

Recently, Hulu has been clashing with its owners--NBC Universal, News Corp., and Disney--and CEO Jason Kilar has even threatened to quit over disagreements negotiating the pricing of its Plus service.READ»

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Netflix. Meet Hulu. Now, How About Merging Together?

Farhad Manjoo argues that Netflix and Hulu should stop competing and team up.READ»

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Why Bitbop, Fox's Mobile Video Subscription Service, Is No Hulu

A video subscription service for smartphones is to be launched at CTIA today by Fox Mobile Group, owned by that champion of the free Internet, Rupert Murdoch. (Can I just say how amazing it is to have Peyote on your cornflakes each ...READ»

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FCC Scrutinizing NBC-Comcast Deal, May Take a Year

Although the NBC Universal-Comcast hook-up was announced at the end of last year, it's taken three months for the FCC and the Justice Department to decide whether they're going to scrutinize the merger. (More time, even, than it ...READ»

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Why does somebody have to buy Twitter?

The biggest question in the technology world these days is who will buy Twitter?  The leading contender is probably Google, since the search giant has what seems like an unlimited amount of money and a history of scooping up ...READ»

Can NBC Garner Olympic-Sized Ratings?

If you haven't seen the commercials on every NBC channel for the last year, the 29th Summer Olympic Games commence in Beijing at 08:08:08 p.m. Given that Beijing is 12 hours ahead of the East Coast, and 15 hours ahead of the West ...READ»

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Audiobrain Meets NBC: Creating Music for the Beijing Olympics

How Audrey Arbeeny and Michael Sweet use sound to help NBC orchestrate its Olympic coverage into narrative storytellingREAD»