paidContent’s Quick Hits 9.23.09

WSJ Magazine

»  The Author’s Guild and Association of American Publishers want more time to amend the book-scanning settlement with Google (NSDQ: GOOG). [eWeek]

»  Rumors of a Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) or Viacom (NYSE: VIA) takeover of THQ (NSDQ: THQI) sent the latter’s shares up 13%. [GamaSutra]

»  Discount photo vendor iStockPhoto is getting into the logo-creation business. [TechCrunch]

»  As part of an ongoing experiment to test its potential online audience, The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ. is going to publish two web-only issues in July and October. [WWD]

»  Ashton Kutcher has brought Facebook its first popular web series, “KatalystHQ.” [AdWeek Media]

»  In an effort to generate revenue from NYC-area users, CBS (NYSE: CBS) and LMG digitalMedia have created a local real-estate web site. [Crains]

»  A new study shows that luxury brands like Ralph Lauren and Ferrari are going to the web “out of necessity.” [AdAge]

»  ‘Pioneer Woman’ Ree Drummond talks about how she stumbled upon her internet goldmine — a food web site that garners 13 million page views a month and a book that’s already number one on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). [LA Times]

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