Media
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Show Some Respect: Sports Leagues, ESPN Give Hollywood a Blueprint for Success
"I don’t know that [sports] gets its full appreciation and credit for both ground it broke and the size of its influence on the market,” Geoff Reiss, CEO of the professional bowlers’ association, tells TheGrill
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Kara Swisher & Sharon Waxman at TheGrill: Silicon Valley and Hollywood Face Off (Video)
AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher and TheWrap's Sharon Waxman size up the relationship between the epicenters of technology and entertainment and what "content" means in both realms
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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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LinkedIn Unveils ‘Follow’ Feature for ‘Influencers’
LinkedIn now allows its users to follow "INfluencers," including Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
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The Grill: Hollywood’s Finest at the Opening Cocktail Party (Photos)
TheGrill 2012's cocktail reception at the London West Hollywood Hotel.
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Thanks to Twitter, Hollywood and Silicon Valley Are Finally Working Together
Venture capitalists Chris Sacca and Jeff Jordan say that Facebook, Apple and Android are the new kingmakers
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Chris Sacca and Jeff Jordan Talk Smart Venture Capitalism at TheGrill (Video)
Sacca, founder of Lowercase Capital, and Jordan, a director of Pinterest and OpenTable talk about why it's a great time to be a content producer
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Comcast Class-Action Suit Will Be Heard by Supreme Court
A federal court judge's decision to side with Comcast sets the stage for the class-action matter to be heard by the Supreme Court
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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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Former Disney Exec Paul Yanover Named President of Fandango
Yanover will focus on growing original content for the ticketing company
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Former Playboy Executive Who Questioned Bonuses Sues Over Firing
Playboy former accounting executive Catherine Zulfer says she was fired after refusing to prepare $1 million in bonuses for top executives without board approval
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Arthur O. Sulzberger, Former N.Y. Times Publisher, Dead at 86
The New York Times won 31 Pulitzer Prizes and published the Pentagon Papers during the time Arthur Ochs Sulzberger served as publisher
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NBCU Sells $2B in Bonds
Proceeds will be used to boost working capital and for general corporate purposes, source tells Bloomberg
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Carmageddon II: TheWrap’s 5-Point Plan for Survival
Five things to do instead of getting hopelessly stuck in traffic this weekend