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The New York Stock Exchange sent a legal nastygram Thursday to the news site Talking Points Memo, demanding that it take down a picture of the trading floor the site used in a news article, claiming that NYSE has trademarked the floor.

John Malone's surprise $1 billion offer to buy Barnes & Noble has left a lot of people scratching their heads. It's likely, however, that Malone is less interested in the company's 1,300-or-so retail outlets (including 600 college bookstores) than he is in its Nook e-reader device.

One World Trade Center, slated to become the new headquarters of Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ and Wired, will be one of the most technologically sophisticated buildings in the world, officials say.

Next Issue Media, billed as the magazine industry's digital newsstand, launched a preview of its offerings Wednesday, announcing digital versions of Condé Nast's New Yorker, Hearst's Esquire and Popular Mechanics, Meredith's Fitness and Parents, and Time Inc.'s Fortune and Time.

What do Jill Dawnsoll, Kerry Ohnes, Dakota Baylie, Ellanah Cailn, Heidi Illems, Mirinda Latel and Paige Decanso have in common? For one thing, they don't appear to be real people at all -- although their Twitter accounts are designed to look like they are.

Just when it looked like the Facebook Burson-Marsteller block-ops anti-Google smear scandal couldn't possible get any more bizarre, new details emerged about the botched campaign Friday as the debacle reverberated from New York to Silicon Valley.

Netflix is coming to Android! Or well, to a select few Android devices. Blame the sheer number of handsets, Netflix says.

In the annals of shady public relations stunts, Facebook’s attempt to surreptitiously plant negative — and highly misleading — stories about Google into leading media outlets will surely go down as one of the most ham-handed in recent memory.

Financial news heavyweight CNNMoney unveiled its newly redesigned website Monday and announced that it has struck partnerships with StockTwits, the financial discussion platform created by investor Howard Lindzon, as well as SigFig, a portfolio-management tool launching in June.

Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ and Wired, is on the verge of announcing a pact with Apple to begin selling digital subscriptions to its iPad applications, according to the New York Post's Keith J. Kelly.

In the hours after a team of U.S. Navy SEALs attacked Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan -- and shot the world's most wanted man in the head -- the Facebook pages for the U.S. Navy, SEALs and Army saw a dramatic spike in activity as users flocked online to post their thoughts and comments about the event.

Time, the giant magazine publisher, has reached a deal with Apple to provide its magazine subscribers with access to the iPad versions of its publications, a spokesperson confirmed, in an important step toward detente between the publishing industry and the Cupertino, California, tech giant.

So you want to be writer. Well, have I got a deal for you. Join Patch, and write for free for a multibillion company run by millionaires. In a continuation of one of the more, um, unusual media stories in recent memory, AOL is asking the editors of Patch to recruit 8,000 people to write for free on Patch's various hyperlocal news sites.

Netflix, the streaming-video and DVD-rental-by-mail giant, said that its profit soared 88 percent in the first quarter as it added 3.6 million subscribers globally. But the company's shares were battered in after-hours trading, falling 5 percent after the company projected that its profits next quarter wouldn't likely be as high as Wall Street traders hoped for.

AT&T is telling the feds that buying T-Mobile will be good for the country, but Sprint and public interest groups want the feds to block the $39 billion buyout. They say it will only lead to higher prices and a wireless duopoly.

Google launches its own daily deal site, just months after Groupon rejected its $6 billion offer to buy the king of local coupons.

Google is the only major holdout in the "Do Not Track" flag initiative that Microsoft, Apple and Firefox are incorporating into their browsers. Google says the flag is too unclear -- but it could also hurt its bottom line.

New monthly search share numbers show Bing and Yahoo combined handle about 30 percent of U.S. searches, with Google slowly growing to close to 66 percent.

Arianna Huffington is like a "slave owner on a plantation of bloggers," according to the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit that seeks more than $100 million in damages on behalf of 9,000 unpaid bloggers who, he argues, should be paid for helping build The Huffington Post into the valuable media property AOL bought for $315 million.

The world's search giant is set to get even bigger, as the federal authorities are proposing to allow it to buy travel-search company ITA. But the approval comes with some conditions intended to spare dedicated travel search sites.