- Google is being speculated at considering scooping up the rotting corpse that is the family-owned New York Times Company. The good thing about death of print would be all the trees that get saved.
- To help finance that NYT Co. purchase, Google is letting all US publishers access their AdSense for Domains. The program lets domain squatters place ads and generate revenue. Totally not evil, in that toes-on-the-line-but-body-dangling-over sense.
- CBS Interactive — the progeny of CBS’s digital dreams up north in San Francisco and tech publisher CNET — had to fire a lot of people. How many? No one knows, so we’re just guessing 20% of their 275 headcount.
- Howard Stern is threatening to quit, basically over more money. Your 15-year-old inner child might still care.
- Since it’s Friday, here’s media princess Shira Lazar hula dancing:
(Banner photo by Christopher Chan)
