Amanda Natividad

Amanda Natividad currently serves as editorial producer. Previously she was an editor/producer at women’s healthy living site Lifescript.com. She graduated from UCLA, where she was a staff writer for AsiaMedia, a site covering press freedom and other media issues across Asia. She works from the L.A. office, which is better known as her apartment.

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Wall Street Bull

With huge anticipation around Facebook’s IPO, we decided look at how other digital media companies that have gone public over the past year have fared. Most have had a bumpy ride — and only one has had steady gains since its stock-market debut. Read more »

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Jason Goldberg, co-founder and CEO of Fab
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Less than a year after its relaunch, Fab.com is nearing 4 million members. Co-founder and CEO Jason Goldberg talks about the once-social network’s reinvention, saying it’s not just an e-commerce site — it’s a movement. Read more »

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Big brother is watching you / privacy / security

Ad companies like Facebook and Google are usually on the front line of the digital privacy debate. But in a long-awaited report, the FTC took the heat off these familiar names and called instead for tougher supervision of lesser known firms that collect and sell consumer data. Read more »

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Silicon Valley & The Scent of Money

Silicon Valley leads the world in technology but it’s losing a debate over how that technology should be used. A new surge in patent lawsuits shows that Chicago, not Silicon Valley, is setting the rules for how patents should encourage innovation. Read more »

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capitol

The US Senate has overcome its fears about “crowdmuppeting” and passed an amended version of the JOBS Act, a bill that will make it easier for start-ups to raise money and avoid regulations. The Senate bill received rare bi-partisan support and will go back to the […] Read more »

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Bill Simmons of DataXu at Structure:Data 2012

At Structure:Data, DataXu showed off its technology in the form of a writhing map of colors that reflected consumer sentiment to cell phone promotions. In practice, this means that a phone company’s ad campaign would automatically increase or decrease offers for contracts or free phones or pre-paid plans. Read more »

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Ashlie Beringer of Gibson, Dun and Crutcher LLP and Derrick Harris of GigaOM at Structure:Data 2012

Consumers have long been trading their personal data in return for access to Web sites like Facebook. The tradeoff has worked well for companies and consumers but, as the pool of data grows, so have privacy concerns. At Structure:Data, panelists say the current so-called solutions are misguided. Read more »

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Todd Papaioannou of Continuuity at Structure:Data 2012

If 80 percent of new data created is going to be unstructured, where is all that data coming from? It’s coming from consumers’ activities online and it requires real-time processing, said Continuuity’s Todd Papaionnou at Structure:Data. Read more »

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Rio Caraeff

The music distributor and service Vevo plans to triple its global footprint in 2012, CEO Rio Caraeff tells paidContent while answering questions about a rumoured tie-up with Facebook… Read more »

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The good news for the traditional subscription TV industry: subscriber counts across the cable/satellite/telco television services industry grew by 380,000 in 2011. The bad news? Growth of satellite and telco subscriptions slowed down last year. Read more »

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Man Relaxing With Remote Control

Wand, joypad, keyboard, trackpad, voice, mobile, wave, tablet or just plain ‘ol candybar? Which of these is the best way to navigate television, as the TV is upgraded by unfamiliar new features like web, apps, VOD and games? Read more »

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iPad 2 and iPad 3 (new iPad)

The new iPad isn’t exactly like Oakland and Gertrude Stein – there’s a there, there—but it won’t be obvious to most people. If you’ve already seen an iPad 2 you’ve essentially already seen a third-generation iPad… Read more »

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With HBO’s new video teaser for the April 1 launch of its HBO Go service on Xbox Live, the big question is: Which of the top cable, satellite and telco TV service providers will let their customers watch Go on the Microsoft game console? Read more »

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Castle on Aereo TV

Aereo, a bold new service that brings broadcast TV and DVR to your iPad and iPhone, started its engines in New York City today—and the results are mostly impressive. Read more »

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yahoo billboard

When Yahoo filed a patent suit against Facebook this week, it became as popular as Rush Limbaugh at a Planned Parenthood gathering. But many Yahoo investors will tolerate Silicon Valley’s scorn if the patent gambit actually works. Will it? Read more »

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