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Charter Communications, the big cable TV company, finally filed for bankruptcy on Friday. But it does not intend to stay there for long.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Aiming to outdo Amazon.com and recapture the crown for the most digital titles in an e-book library, Sony is announcing Thursday a deal with Google to make a half million copyright-free books available for its Reader device, a rival to the AmazonKindle.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s YouTube and the Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music label, are in advanced discussions over a licensing agreement that could lead to the creation of a premium site for music videos, according a person briefed on the talks.
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Sirius XM Radio, the satellite radio giant that is on the brink of bankruptcy, is in preliminary talks with Liberty Media, the conglomerate controlled by John C. Malone, people briefed on the negotiations said on Wednesday.
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YouTube and the William Morris Agency, the Hollywood talent agency, are close to signing a deal that would place the company’s clients in made-for-the-Web productions.
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The deal would underscore the ways that distribution models are evolving on the Internet. Already, some actors and other celebrities are creating their own content for [...]

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ONE year from now, almost to the day, will mark the 10th anniversary of the announcement of what could be the worst corporate marriage in history, the union of America Online and Time Warner.
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And still the effects are being sifted.
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The long-troubled arrangement to install wireless Internet networks in Central Park and other New York City parks has quietly collapsed after the contractor, Wi-Fi Salon, ran out of money because it could not find corporate sponsors.
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Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, records most of its profit from its core business, the microprocessors that serve as the brains of most computers. But the company’s side venture in flash memory — which is used to store songs on digital music players and photos on digital cameras — has been another story.
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OTTAWA — The $50 billion privatization of Bell Canada, Canada’s largest telecommunications company, was in jeopardy Wednesday after accountants said that they were unable to conclude if the leveraged buyout would leave the company solvent.
Bell Canada, which trades under the corporate name BCE, is among Canada’s most widely held and prominent corporations. Unless the accountants [...]

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PARIS — Long after other media joined the digital revolution, book publishers clung to the reassuringly low-tech tools of printing press, paper and ink.
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European libraries have joined to produce Europeana, an online database of two million books and other cultural items.
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