• The world’s hottest digital markets: A music map (paidContent)
• CEO Scott Thompson may be out, but Yahoo is still a mess (GigaOM)
• Who is Ross Levinsohn?: Yahoo’s new salesman-in-chief (paidContent)
• A TV schedule in the hands of whoever holds the remote (NYT)
• Why “going global” makes no sense for China’s social networks, for now (The Next Web)
• No more breasts, elephants or SOPA: How Warren Adelman is saving Go Daddy’s soul (PandoDaily)
• Can startups afford to be socially responsible? (GigaOM)

James Murdoch to step down as BSkyB chairman (The Guardian)

SEC Probes Groupon (Wall Street Journal)

Groupon settles coupon expiration lawsuits for $8.5 mln (Reuters)

Pinterest Co-Founder Paul Sciarra Is Leaving The Company (Startup Grind)

Angry Birds animated TV series to premiere in Autumn 2012 (The Guardian)

Google Wallet Co-Founding Engineer Departs Google for Square (NFC Times)

AT&T Embraces Startup Speed-Dating to Spur Innovation (Bloomberg)

Websites Have To Get Better [To respond to Readability] (ReadWriteWeb)

Researcher: Over 1 Million U.S. Cable Subscribers Cut Cord In 2011 (paidContent)

»  Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs (Variety)

»  Bloomberg and Reuters: The future of news (AdWeek)

»  Why Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) can’t win a tablet price war against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) (PCWorld)

»  Digital music now pays artists more than pubs (paidContent)

»  How much does Pinterest actually make? (GigaOM)

»  Sink or swim: Digital publishers need to be bold (Wired)

»  Amazon is stifling the e-commerce revolution (GigaOM)

»  RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) finally comes clean, but time not on its side (GigaOM)

»  iTunes and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) royalty payments used to steal £500,000 by British gang (The Verge)

»  Chinese Android Apps Are Bypassing Google’s Play Store (paidContent)

»  If You Think “Social” Means Viral, You’ve Got It All Wrong (Ben Elowitz, CEO Wetpaint via All Things D)

»  E-Book Sales For Kids And Teens Surge (paidContent)

»  Google’s Grand Plan (Slate)

»  The Digital Physical: On Building Flipboard for iPhone and Finding the Edges of Our Digital Narratives (Craigmod)

»  Magazines’ digital circulation more than doubles — but remains small (AdAge)

»  Bertelsmann weighs IPO to finance expansion (NYT/DealBook)

»  Hey, judges: Facebook isn’t the devil, it’s the new gossip (GigaOM)

»  A Pinterest spammer tells all (The Daily Dot)

»  Publisher unmasks “Dummies,” ramps up lawsuits against e-book sharers (paidContent)

»  The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) ombudsman’s faulty paywall analysis (CJR)

»  Subscription manager MediaPass raises $1.75 million (TechCrunch)

»  Apple’s Newsstand raking in $70K a day, study says (CNET)

»  Is Cable’s Long, Glorious Ratings Run Finally Over? (paidContent)

»  T-Mobile battles the subsidy beast (by raising prices) (GigaOM)

»  France Claims Three-Strikes Has Hit Piracy, But Has It Really? (paidContent)

»  RIAA: Digital beats out physical for first time in 2011, streaming services gain 300,000 subscribers (The Verge)

»  A Pinterest Spammer Tells All (The Daily Dot)

»  Keep Your Facebook Friends Close and Your Facebook Enemies Closer (Read Write Web)

»  What Happened When I Got Retweeted By @BarackObama (paidContent)

»  Corporation for Public Broadcasting gives NPR $500,000 for foreign news coverage (Poynter)

»  Why Mike Daisey isn’t done apologizing for his lies (GigaOM)

»  The future of magazines should look a lot like Spotify (PandoDaily)

»  Digital-only kids’ brands lack established TV rivals (AdWeek)

»  FTC shifts privacy spotlight from advertisers to data brokers (paidContent)

»  Pinterest updates terms of service…and people are still overreacting (Techdirt)

»  Music wars: Spotify heading for Ireland and Australia as Rdio gears up in Europe (paidContent)

»  Can Hunger Games save soundtracks? (WSJ)

»  German copycats clone Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) (Businessweek)

»  The interactive media map: America’s most influential news outlets (Forbes)

»  The future of apps and Web (Pew Internet & American Life Project)

»  The Onion’s bumpy ride to Chicago (Atlantic Wire)

»  Chinese theatrical market booms, but real action may be in video on demand (paidContent)

»  The case against Google (Gizmodo)

»  Direct sales uncover hidden trends for publishers (O’Reilly Radar)

»  No joke: YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) gets its first live comedy show (GigaOM)

»  Beats buying up music service MOG (GigaOM)

»  Can Spotify become the iTunes of streaming media? (Deadline New York)

»  How the Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) algorithm works (paidContent)

»  BSkyB’s Internet TV service will have a new brand, “Now TV” (paidContent)

»  Why your infographic is evil (and three ways to fix it) (ReadWriteWeb)

»  Dystopian books again seize power (Goodreads)

»  ASME names Digital “Ellies” winners; New York and Wired magazines win multiple awards (AdWeek)

»  Top Kindle Fire Activity: Reading E-Books, Says Citi (paidContent)

»  Amazon’s Key to Beating Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) in the Daily Deals Space is Its 164 Million Paying Customers (All Things D)

»  Why The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) Isn’t Adding Digital To Its Sunday Edition (paidContent)

»  Deep Dive Into Ad Network Behavior on Android (ReadWriteWeb)

»  Does a new crowdfunding bill for startups go too far? (GigaOM)

»  Playing at No Cost, Right Into the Hands of Mobile Game Makers (NYT Bits)

»  Nielsen, GroupM To Develop New Ratings Tool (paidContent)

»  The Pirate Bay Claims It’s Going To Host The Site Via Drones Flying Over International Waters (Techdirt)