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—Roku player gets Amazon VOD: Owners of the Roku "Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Player" will soon also be able to download content from Amazon's VOD service. The deal adds more than 40,000 movies and TV shows to the library currently available via Netflix—though Amazon's content is on a pay-per-view model as opposed to Netflix' subscription.

—Tanking job market a boon for LinkedIn : While LinkedIn laid off some 10 percent of its staff in November, the financial crisis hasn't been all bad for the business-focused social network, USA Today reports.

Online video search and identification service Anvato has picked up $2 million worth of a $4 million first round. Oxantium Ventures led the investment, which the Mountain View-based startup will use to launch AdMatch, its video advertising platform. The platform builds on Anvato's fingerprinting technology, which lets publishers track the spread of their clips without the use of meta-data or watermarks.

Murdoch's love for newspapers is undying, nevermind the near-death throes of the medium itself, and he reads it out (literally, on the radio) as part of a series of Australian radio lectures titled, "The future of newspapers: moving beyond dead trees." Compare and contrast this to his famous speech on April 13,