CNBC has relaunched with renewed focus on videos. The website about business and investing will be competing now with services such as Yahoo Finance and Google Finance and with new web content sites like Seeking Alpha, which recently took funding from BenchMark Capital.
Source : Techcrunch
CNBC will be hosting blogs written by CNBC anchors and will support tagging options too.
Techcrunch is reporting that Wal-mart has sold an option for a digital download with the purchase of the “Superman Returns” DVD.
Techcrunch also did a review of digital movie download vendors but is sceptical of Wal-Mart’s venture into this digital movie business space. and mentions that If this is the best Walmart can do, we’ll be filing this under “Failed Movie Download Models” in the near future.
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