AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced the second round of recipients of CPB’s Public Media Innovation Fund Program.
The Public Media Innovation Fund, established by CPB to support public broadcasters’ efforts to experiment with emerging platforms, provides up to $20,000 per grantee for new media initiatives which demonstrate technical or service innovations. Round two [...]

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Ad Age
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — As media agencies continue their transition toward leading brand strategy with digital integration and branded entertainment, MediaWorks checks in with some of the players charged with making it happen.
David Lang, an Emmy-award winning producer recently was named president of MindShare Entertainment — one of several promotions the company announced to [...]

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Now Showing: The Battle of the Buzz - The Wall Street Journal
A pivotal moment at a recent private screening of the new film “Margot at the Wedding” in Manhattan nearly went awry. And it had nothing to do with the movie itself.
On a red carpet, the film’s stars, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh, [...]

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Adobe Names Narayen As CEO, Succeeding Chizen - The Wall Street Journal

Adobe Systems Inc. announced a surprise change to its top leadership at a critical time, as the software maker begins to adapt to new ways that people are using the Web.
The company said Chief Executive Bruce Chizen will leave the post at the end [...]

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Best Buy Courts Big Spenders - The Wall Street Journal
Best Buy Co. has joined other retailers in getting a jump on the holiday season, but its efforts resemble those of upper-end Neiman Marcus rather than Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
On Sunday night, the consumer-electronics giant will offer giveaways and cut-rate prices on sought-after items to its best-spending [...]

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Best Buy Launches Online Video Sharing Service - Mydeo
Best Buy today launched Best Buy Video Sharing, an online-based solution for customers to safely and securely store and share home movies and videos via the Web.
Best Buy Video Sharing is a subscription-based service for users to upload their personal videos for sharing on web sites and [...]

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Target Campaign Goes ‘Model-Less’ - The Wall Street Journal

In Target’s never-ending quest to be hipper than the competition, the retailer plans to showcase its fall and winter designer apparel in a spooky sort of fashion show: Clothes and accessories will dance and prance their way down the runway sans models — and sans [...]

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Audi’s Hybrid Metroproject Quattro - BusinessWeek
We’re running around like kids in a candy store at the Tokyo Motor Show, it’s a technophile’s delight — and Audi has just come out swinging. The German company has just unveiled its sexy metroproject quattro, a plug-in electric/petrol hybrid concept car with some amazing features, including a detachable [...]

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