»  MindJolt CEO Chris DeWolfe talks about his post-MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) career and social gaming. [Speakeasy] »  Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Playdom may be in late stage acquisition talks. The social gaming startup raised $33 million last June from Disney’s Steamboat Ventures, among others. [TechCrunch] »  Facebook suspects the contract…

»  Disenchanted Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executives may be in secret discussions to oust CEO Steve Ballmer. [The Daily Beast] »  Microsoft may raise its quarterly dividend for the first time since 2008. [Bloomberg] »  Writers explain what it’s like to contribute to content farms. [MediaShift] »  Pandora boasts 60 million…

»  A wood-pellet company owner named Paul Ceglia is suing Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that the two had an agreement in which Ceglia would get a large ownership portion of Facebook. [Inside Facebook] »  Why media agencies don’t need separate units for social media. [AdAge] »  Why software startups decide to…

»  Founders Fund has closed its third fund with $250 million in capital commitments. The firm had raised $220 million for its second fund in 2007. [peHUB] »  China is satisfied that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is complying with its laws after it tweaked the way it directs users to an…

»  Redbox is developing an online streaming strategy to compete with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). [Bloomberg] »  E! co-founder Alan Mruvka is launching a celebrity-focused online network. [Mediaweek] »  How to avoid a bad strategic partnership for your startup. [ReadWriteWeb] »  Media and marketing M&A activity is expected to heat up…

»  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News gets a redesign in response to users’ complaints. [GigaOm] »  Former Google News and Bing engineers team up for digital news startup. [TechCrunch] »  WaPo columnist Gene Weingarten longs for the days of the traditional newsroom. [Washington Post] »  Google puts up a guide and…

»  Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music plans to open its own online store dedicated to classical music. [MediaMemo] »  Yellow Pages will get 39 percent of revenues from digital offerings by 2014. [Search Engine Watch] »  How the Old Spice video ads have been created and catapulted to viral status. [ReadWriteWeb]…

»  Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is cutting 285 part-time jobs because it’s automating envelope opening. [OC Register] »  New Facebook feature creates instant ads. [Marketing Pilgrim] »  What Jeff Jarvis Coffin says is the hidden, dirty secret of new media’s old media wannabes. [Huffington Post] »  Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) SVP Satya…

»  Web designer claims he owns an 84 percent stake in Facebook. [ReadWriteWeb] »  Conde Nast’s Reddit successfully signs on 6,000 subscribers, likely making $60,000-90,000. [TechCrunch] »  Less time is being spent on Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) sites. [Marketing Pilgrim] »  Chinese internet regulator vows to reduce web anonymity in the…

»  Conde Nast’s largest web property, Reddit, implores users for contributions. [Marketing Pilgrim] »  The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News team up to launch Michigan.com, an aggregation site to compete with MLive.com. [Lost Remote] »  Andreessen Horowitz may be poised for another round of fundraising—even bigger than its…

»  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will resume collecting photos and 3D imagery for its street view feature—only this time, without snooping on WiFi information. [PC World] »  Ten questions for Tesla’s new (and Apple’s former) retail chief. [earth2tech] »  Gmail now supports rich text signatures. [Geek.com] »  Google founder Sergey Brin…

Here’s a round-up of notable remarks and news tidbits coming out of Allen & Co.‘s annual media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho: »  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt said told reporters that he thinks the Chinese government will renew the company’s license to operate a website there. [WSJ] » …

»  Yahoo’s potential to emerge the winner among giants like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG). [John Battelle’s Searchblog] »  Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CFO Tim Morse plans to reverse the company’s pattern of overpaying for acquisitions. [Bloomberg Businessweek] »  Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) jumps on the LeBron James bandwagon, calling…

»  More newspapers are taking credit cards at vending machines. [AdAge] »  Disgruntled security researchers take aim at Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). [ars technica] »  VC Alan Patricof on raising money during financial Armageddon. [Business Insider] »  Tapulous investor Jeff Clavier on casual gaming “explosion.” [Digits] »  Some Facebook stats: The…

»  CBS (NYSE: CBS) has teamed up with MediaMind (formerly Eyeblaster) to create a new ad tool called the Video Extender, which is intended to give users more control of how large the want their video ads to be in an attempt to be less intrusive, but more engaging. [Mediaweek]…

»  The story behind Overture Films founders’ exits. [THR] »  It’s not that seed investors are smarter—it’s that entrepreneurs are. [cdixon.org] »  Less than 10 percent of fliers log onto airplanes’ WiFi. [USA Today] »  AP covered Woot’s sale to Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) with many quotes from the deals site;…

»  MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) is looking to restructure its search ad partnership with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) by including Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) as the social net tries to find a way to compensate for traffic declines, which has hampered its ability to meet the benchmarks laid out…

»  Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI), struggling to avoid bankruptcy, will be delisted from the NYSE next Wednesday. [WSJ] »  The secret to Apple’s FaceTime (NYSE: TWX) success will be… the PC? [Epicenter] »  The Sex.com domain is available, but is it really that valuable? [Domain Name Wire]

»  Is Hulu Plus another nail in the DVD coffin? [NewTeeVee] »  China’s Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) is looking to hire 30 software engineers from “Google (NSDQ: GOOG) territory.” [Search Engine Watch] »  Newsmax Media’s failed bid for Newsweek. [TBI’s The Wire] »  Gay social net Fabulis adds $250,000 to its…