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Disney to close its online movie service
Disney is shutting down its Disney Movies Online service, which failed to catch on with users. The site let consumers buy or rent digital versions of Disney and Pixar films and watch the movies on their computers. It was designed to ease the family...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, Entertainment, Movies, Pixar Animation
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Film jobs for screenwriters fall for second year
Screenwriting jobs and wages in Hollywood declined for a second straight year, reflecting the broader pullback in production by the major film studios, according to the Writers Guild of America West. The WGA, which represents about 12,000 writers,...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, Netflix Inc., Writers Guild of America
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Bob Hope Airport ad plan gets poor review
Bob Hope Airport commissioners this week waved off a planned print and online ad campaign while keying in on the message they most want to get across: Whatever your L.A. destination, fly Burbank. Members of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport...
Tags: Politics, Advertising, Bob Hope, Online Advertising, Elections
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Construction documents to be stored electronically with Harford permits agency
The Harford County Department of Inspections, Licenses and Permits, or DILP, working in cooperation with the Department of Information Systems, has made technology enhancements that will now allow DILP to migrate from traditional file storage to...Tags: Science and Technology, Electronics
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Airbnb rentals ruled illegal in New York City
A judge has ruled that Airbnb, the popular online service that allows homeowners and apartment dwellers to offer their residences as temporary rentals, is illegal in New York City. The decision from the city’s Environmental Control Board found...
Tags: Justice System, Lawyers, The Home Depot, Judges, Condos and Houses
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Payvia buys mobile marketing firm Mogreet
Mobile payments company Payvia Inc. has acquired Mogreet, a Venice mobile marketing start-up. The companies declined to disclose the financial terms of the deal. The Mogreet team will join Los Angeles company Payvia, and Mogreet founder and Chief...Tags: Business, Consumers, Consumer Goods Industries, Marketing, Cox Media Group, Inc.
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Yahoo seeks turnaround with $1.1-billion deal to buy Tumblr
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is attempting a bold — and risky — strategy to turn around the struggling Internet giant with the $1.1-billion acquisition of Tumblr, a trendy social blogging service popular...
Tags: Facebook, Social Media, Marketing, Business, YouTube
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Mobile payments company Payvia buys L.A. marketing firm Mogreet
Mobile payments company Payvia announced Monday that it had acquired Mogreet, a Venice mobile marketing start-up. Payvia, based in L.A., said the deal would create a simplified all-in-one platform that enables companies to target consumers and provide...
Tags: Business, Consumer Goods Industries, Marketing, Computer Hardware, Cox Media Group, Inc.
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You must protect your electronics, digital data
Whether you stay or go, it's smart to back up important files, photos and other information from your computer and other electronic devices. Computers MICROSOFT allows users to store data in the cloud with SkyDrive. Once you create a free account, you...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Electronics, New Products, Mac OS, Verizon Communications
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Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet pioneer that had fallen behind the times. The deal announced Monday is Mayer's boldest move since she left...
Tags: Facebook, Sergey Brin, Social Media, Marketing, Prices
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What to know before giving up on cable
Need more proof that the world is changing? Last week, the president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, Michael Powell, told the Senate that "the largest subscription video provider in the country today is Netflix." If you haven't...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Consumers, Entertainment, Amazon.com Inc., Hulu
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How to avoid a return to the hospital
The only thing less pleasant than a stay in the hospital is having to go right back there to deal with complications. And experts say it happens all too often. One in 8 elderly patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Dwayne Johnson, Yale University, Hospitals and Clinics, Pneumonia
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