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Freedom of the press took a hit in the jaw Monday when news leaked that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of The Associated Press' telephone records .

When the media writer Howard Kurtz lost his job at the Daily Beast earlier this month, the details of how he screwed up managed to obscure the greater particulars of his boss, Daily Beast editor Tina Brown, and her lacklustre performance.

Fast Company JP Mangalindan looks at the financial health of Web publishers like The Huffington Post, Gawker Media and BuzzFeed.

Mike Konczal has an interesting piece on the general question of whether wonk-blogging - the practice of putting up fairly analytical data-heavy posts bearing on policy issues directly on the web, rather than going through more traditional publication channels - is a good thing.

No doubt about it: Google Apps is a threat to Microsoft 's cash-cow Microsoft Office franchise.

"To the extent that you have the arsenal of assets in the private, the public, and the combination of those two clouds, and you can still deal with complex, large, multinational companies on premise, and do all these things, with the continuous flow of innovation, you've got a great chance of winning the game," McDermott said in an interview with ... (more)

Bummer for Dropbox, which was a Crocodoc partner/customer; see Box CEO Aaron Levie's blog post, Box is Acquiring Crocodoc to Reimagine Documents in the Cloud , for more details; also see By Acquiring This Company You Never Heard Of, Aaron Levie Just Punched Dropbox In The Gut "CEO Aaron Levie just announced the deal in a corporate blog post.

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American Eagle Flight 4563 made an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York this morning after being struck by lightning, according to NY1 .

Each year I Want Media offers those interested its "The Future of Media" talk, and this year's lineup includes some heavy hitters.

After breaching another milestone on Tuesday, it appears that US stocks will have another upbeat day as Chinese trade data shows an improvement.

Asian markets were up in overnight trading with the Hang Seng up 0.9% boosted by Chinese trade data.

Mayor Bloomberg visited Urban Compass today to announce the company's beta launch.

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John Battelle, the founder of Web 2.0 Summit, Federated Media , and many other companies and conferences, has launched a new kind of business conference: OpenCo.

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Patents have become such a big business for Microsoft that the company has outsourced its U.S. patent filing work to India, John Weresh, general manager of Microsoft's Patent Operations, told Business Insider .

Keystone Sporting Arms, the company that makes Crickett rifles for kids - one comes in hot pink for girls - has taken down the web site , YouTube , Twitter and Facebook pages it used to target its gun marketing at the under-10s. Crickett's marketing is controversial because, as Mother Jones reported , the company had a "Kids Corner" on its site, ... (more)

Yamilet Valladolid , site manager for El Concilio for the Spanish speaking in Modesto, received the Liberty Bell Award presented by the Stanislaus County Bar Association during its 55th Law Day luncheon Friday.

Harvard professor and prominent Daily Beast columnist Niall Ferguson is now apologizing for saying economist John Maynard Keynes' theories about surplus and deficit spending were somehow shaped by that fact that he was gay and childless.