Dulles, Va. - Continuing its shift toward online advertising, AOL plans to cut 2,000 jobs -- or about 20% of its workforce -- a website owned by Dow Jones first reported on Monday. [more..]

Washington - The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), a trade group that represents the major networks and other TV broadcasters, on Monday announced a $697 million public service campaign that will educate consumers on the pending analog switch-off and transition to digital broadcasting, the Associated Press reported. [more..]

Basking Ridge, N.J. - Longtime digital holdouts Led Zeppelin's catalog will be made available in digital format for the first time on Nov. 13, coinciding with the release of "Mothership," a two-CD greatest hits collection. [more..]

Durham, N.C. - Motricity, a provider of mobile content publishing and delivery services, announced on Monday that it will acquire the mobile services business of InfoSpace for about $135 million in cash. [more..]

New York - Embattled video game publisher Atari on Monday announced the appointment of Curtis G. Solsvig III as chief restructuring officer, and named four new independent directors to its board, replacing board members ousted last week by parent company Infogrames. [more..]

Silver Spring, Md. - Discovery Communications said on Monday that it will acquire HowStuffWorks.com, an Atlanta-based website that provides explanations about how things in the world actually work. [more..]

Cambridge, Mass. - Maven Networks, the provider of an Internet TV platform, announced on Monday that it has partnered with companies including Microsoft, DoubleClick, 24/7 Real Media, Ogilvy, Digitas, Scripps Network and Fox News Digital to form the Internet TV Advertising Forum, a trade group that will work to "define next-generation video advertising standards." [more..]

New York - Nearly 16% of U.S. Internet households watch TV broadcasts online, double the number that did a year ago, according to a report issued on Monday by market research firms The Conference Board and TNS. [more..]

New York - BlackArrow, a provider of multiplatform ad management for viewer-controlled video, has raised $12 million in its second round of venture capital financing. [more..]

San Francisco - TokBox, the developer of a video-based Internet communications service, announced on Monday that it has raised $4 million in its first round of venture capital financing, led by Sequoia Capital. [more..]

Hamburg, Germany - FishLabs, a Germany-based developer of Java-based, 3D mobile games, has raised an undisclosed sum of first round funding from Neuhaus Partners. [more..]

The nation’s #1 talk radio station, WABC in New York City, will host the resurrection of Don Imus’s "Imus in the Morning" when it airs on December 3rd [more..]

Porn and spam, synonymous with email since its inception, have fallen under the spotlight for different reasons as two violators of US anti-spam law have received a five-year sentence. [more..]

I am doing my part to overtake the college and high school students and corrupt Facebook as a tool for business and post-school networking, blogs Rohit Bhargava.
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Mark Cuban blogs from Dancing with The Stars: I didnt know what the Viennese Waltz was. Heck, i didnt know there were different types of waltzs. [more..]

Espoo, Finland - Nokia on Monday shipped its new Nokia N95, a mobile phone with 8GB of internal memory that comes pre-loaded with Sony Pictures Entertainment's full-length feature, "Spider-Man 3." [more..]

New York - The Nielsen Company on Monday announced the launch of two new services, Nielsen Online and Nielsen Mobile, which organize the company's existing and recently acquired assets into two distinct units. [more..]

New York - Video-sharing site Dailymotion on Monday announced a raft of new licensing deals that will bring content from TBS, Next New Networks, Si TV and ComedyTime to its service. [more..]

San Francisco - Current TV, the cable TV network and Web platform founded by former Vice President Al Gore, on Monday announced the launch of a new website, Current.com, which among other things will bring all of the network's TV content online. [more..]

Overland Park, Kan. - Sprint on Monday became the first U.S. wireless network operator to launch its own network of original mobile TV programming, SEE (Sprint Exclusive Entertainment), which will feature two-minute clips on sports, music and entertainment news. [more..]

Morristown, N.J. - Access Integrated Technologies (AccessIT), a provider of digital cinema projection systems for movie theaters, on Monday introduced CineLive, a new product that will deliver 2D and 3D live content to movie theaters equipped with its systems. [more..]

New York - Online retailer Barnes & Noble.com said on Monday that it has partnered with digital magazine and book publisher Zinio, to launch a new "See Inside" book preview feature on BN.com. [more..]

London - The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced that Will Wright, creator of "SimCity" and "The Sims," will be the first game industry recipient of a BAFTA Fellowship, the academy's highest honor. [more..]