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July 15, 2010
Most Shared Sites are a Mixture of Traditional and New Media Publishers

Flowtown created an extremely cool blog post with a graphic that showed the "most-shared" news sites as well as how those sites are shared, who the biggest influencers of those sites are via Twitter, and what stories they're sharing.

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July 14, 2010
RIM and Samsung Lead the Mobile Equipment and OS Industries

While Apple deals with negative press related to the not-so-perfect launch of the iPhone 4, comScore released a new report from the comScore MobileLens service for May 2010, which reveals U.S. consumer trends in the mobile market.

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June 29, 2010
Companies Slash Print Advertising Budgets

If there was any doubt that the traditional print media industry is in trouble, new statistics from Nielsen paint a very clear picture of that trouble (via BrandWeek)

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June 22, 2010
BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2010 Coming to Las Vegas

The annual BlogWorld & New Media Expo will be held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada from October 14-16, 2010.

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June 15, 2010
Go Old School - Turn Your iPad into a Typewriter

Do you miss the tap, tap, tapping of an old-fashioned typewriter? Want to turn your iPad into one? Now you can with the USB Typewriter!

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June 11, 2010
The Convergence of Twitter, Facebook, CBS News and Katie Couric

In an attempt to integrate CBSNews.com and the CBS News show hosted by Katie Couric, CBSNews.com and its on-air companion have launched a new segment where CBS News is answering viewer questions in a new way (as reported by MediaPost)

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June 4, 2010
Law Firms See Value in Twitter

This week, Joe Raczynski, an Applications Integrator for Thomson Reuters, Legal wrote a guest blog post on Legal Current, a blog from Thomson Reuters that offers information and commentary on the business and practice of law.

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June 2, 2010
Mobile Apps are Here to Stay

In the June 2010 issue of eContent Magazine, Newstex president Larry Schwartz and a number of content publishing and technology professionals discussed the current state of mobile apps and the future of mobile content for business growth.

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May 31, 2010
Social Media Marketing GPS - Free eBook Now Available

Toby Bloomberg, of the Diva Marketing Blog, launched a new free ebook this month called Social Media Marketing GPS.

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May 27, 2010
True/Slant Acquired by Forbes

The big publisher news out this week is about True/Slant, a Newstex publisher, which will be acquired by Forbes.

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May 18, 2010
Newsweek Joins the Club of Magazines in Need of Rescue

There is no doubt that the print magazine industry is in big trouble, and this month, Newsweek joined the list of big-name magazines that might not survive in printed form with the announcement that Newsweek is up for sale.

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May 10, 2010
David Donoghue Wins Kogan Award from Chicago Bar Association

Newstex Authoriative Blogger David Donoghue of the Chicago IP Litigation Blog and partner in Chicago's Holland & Knight law firm won the Kogan Award in the online category from the Chicago Bar Association's (CBA) annual Herman Kogan Media Awards Competition.

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