»  Disney CEO Bob Iger doesn’t dismiss the notion of selling ABC (NYSE: DIS). [AdWeek] »  After having suffered salary cuts last year, the OC Register staff has been rewarded with bonuses. [LA Observed] »  Defunct sports publisher Fan Action is suing Yahoo’s Rivals.com for $35 million for allegedly poaching…

»  Why CNN considers Facebook to be more of a threat than other broadcast media orgs. [Mashable] »  MySpace (NYSE: NWS) loses chief architects and a development manager to Gravity, a startup founded by its own alums. [TechCrunch] »  SF Weekly has been ordered to give rival San Francisco Bay…

Celebrity gossip site TMZ has quietly unveiled a gentler fashion-oriented offshoot called Too Fab. Although TMZ maintains high traffic—February uniques were up 6 percent to 14 million, per comScore (NSDQ: SCOR)—and gained new credibility by breaking the news of Michael Jackson’s death last year, many advertisers remain uncomfortable with the…

»  Sony (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation is first to sell HD movies from all major movie studios. [Mashable] »  Why AOL’s David Eun was opposed to the YouTube acquisition when he was at Google (NSDQ: GOOG). [Silicon Alley Insider] »  Apple’s iTunes LP still hasn’t quite caught on with consumers. [GigaOm]…

Gadget sites have been abuzz with all things Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as the company’s stock hits yet another record high today, and gears up for iPad pre-orders at the end of the week. We’ve rounded up and the scuttlebutt so you don’t have to: »  HP launches a sneak attack…

»  How Pandora (finally) found success. [NYT] »  Why Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) doesn’t have the right culture to find digital success. [BusinessofVideo] »  Maybe New York’s start-up scene won’t surpass Boston’s. [peHUB] »  What it’s like to be a VC. [Both Sides of the Table] »  What marketing analysts can…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) may have lost its exclusive search deal with T-Mobile USA, but it is banking on a major reorganization to help recharge the company’s mobile efforts. The changes, which involves breaking up the mobile group and redeploying those employees across the company’s individual product groups, is the result…

T-Mobile USA has ended its year-old exclusive search deal with Yahoo, and has replaced the company with its chief rival—Google (NSDQ: GOOG). The deal shifts the U.S. mobile search dominance away from Yahoo and in favor of Google, which now works with two of the top four carriers. The hand-off…

»  Clicker redesigns its video guide, showcasing breaking news and most popular videos. [Bits] »  The story of how Facebook was really founded. [Silicon Alley Insider] »  New study finds free e-books linked with increased print book sales. [BoingBoing »  Crowdstar, of Facebook gaming fame, plans to double its staff…

»  Contrary to some reports, Viacom (NYSE: VIA) has no intentions of suing bloggers for posting clips of The Daily Show or The Colbert Report. [ars technica] »  Leonard Asper has resigned from his posts as president and CEO of Canwest. The Canadian media giant has been under bankruptcy protection…

»  Seven-year-old virtual world There.com will shut down on March 9. [VentureBeat] »  NCAA partners with Thought Equity Motion to offer full, commercial-free footage of 150 tournament games from the past decade. [Wired] »  Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) shows off its redesign of Fortune magazine. [MediaMemo] »  Just how personal…

Mitch Lazar, Yahoo’s European Mobile managing director, is stepping down from his post after working at the company for four and a half years. Lazar marks one of many recent departures from Yahoo’s mobile group. Over the past year-or-so, departures range from all the way at the top, like Marco…

»  Coverage of Steve Ballmer’s keynote at SMX West. [Search Engine Land] »  The 2005 e-mail that spawned online photo editor Picnik, Google’s latest buy. [TechFlash] »  Insiders say Facebook’s revenues likely reached between $600 million and $700 million in 2009, and could make over a billion dollars this year.…

»  In the publisher-middleman-advertiser love triangle, publishers take only 20 percent of the revenue. [AdAge] »  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) wins the patent for location-based advertising. [VentureBeat] »  New survey expects M&A to pick up this year, with more activity from buyers that laid low last year. [Adweek] »  Production kinks…

»  Facebook patents its news feed, and partners with Paypal to make Facebook Credits easier to purchase. [LA Times] »  Still preliminary—but some details on what Twitter’s ad platform will be like. [AllThingsD] »  Random House reorgs to focus on its digital strategy. [Fast Company] »  Startup investor Ron Conway…

Berkeley, CA-based music service Mog.com, which recently launched its subscription music service with good review, is taking a new VC round to finance an entry to the UK market, promising to undercut the much-hyped Spotify and CBS-owned social site Last.fm, we have learned. The second round closed at around $10…

»  Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime on looking beyond new games and competing with newer competitors like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Facebook. [Digits] »  A three-step plan to recover MySpace’s success. [AdAge] »  What the NY Times can learn from online games. [VentureBeat] »  The state of the gaming…

It’s a tried-and-true tactic: in the face of criticism about quality and methods, enlist an advisory board of experts and/or respected figures in the field. That’s the first thing that came to mind when I learned that Demand Media is about to announce an Editorial Advisory Board with charter members…

»  Why Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) hasn’t yet sued Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for using Linux. [CNET] »  A review of Google’s projects: Gmail and Wave get raves; Android phones and Buzz get rants. [Lifehacker] »  A quarter of TVs sold in January are connected to the internet. [NewTeeVee] »  Yelp slapped…