AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Mashable
WordPress.com, the popular hosted blogging platform, has announced that it has officially partnered with the search and recommendation engine Sphere to bring related content to readers of WordPress-powered sites.
As of this weekend, you will find links to more posts on related topics at the bottom of all English language blogs that are hosted at WordPress.com. [...]

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Red Herring
AOL, continuing its campaign to transform from internet service provider ugly duckling to advertising network swan, has acquired contextual search firm Sphere, the companies announced Tuesday.
Financial terms were not disclosed. Shares of Time Warner, the parent of AOL, edged up $.02, or .1 percent, to $14.19 in early afternoon trading.
Three-year-old Sphere was backed by [...]

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