Vanity Fair issues annual hot-or-not list of media executives

Time to put away the flowers, booze and pleading phone calls to Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter. The magazine’s annual list of the most powerful in entertainment, technology, finance and culture, hits newsstands Thursday and is already on its website….

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Sun-Times Media launches ToDrive.com

Sun-Times Media announced Thursday it has partnered with Online Automotive Solutions to launch ToDrive.com, an exciting automobile marketplace that is the Chicago region’s first and most comprehensive hyperlocal automotive site that will give consumers a premium automobile search experience.

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Google Launches Separate Real-time Search Site

Internet search giant Google launched a new website Thursday for users who want to find news, comments and other information on the Internet in real time, allowing them to follow conversations from different social-networking sites all in one place. The move expands Google’s efforts to compete with Microsoft’s Bing search engine in letting Web surfers track up-to-the-minute comments and postings …

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Marketer Settles Charges Over Fake Reviews in iTunes App Store

The F.T.C. said Thursday that a marketing company had settled charges that it engaged in deceptive advertising by having its employees write positive reviews of a client’s games in the Apple iTunes store.

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Jon Wertheim: One last pre-U.S. Open Mailbag

Hey everyone, here’s a pre-Open bag. We’ll post men’s and women’s seed reports shortly after the draws are released Thursday afternoon. Also, during the tournament, we’ll be blogging, tweeting, and doing some video, so feel free to bookmark the SI.com tennis page.

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Questions as WAC deals with loss of Nevada and Fresno St.

BOISE, Idaho — WAC commissioner Karl Benson spent 80 minutes answering questions on a media teleconference Thursday morning — providing a thorough breakdown of a complicated conference shakedown that solidified the Mountain West and left the WAC fighting to survive. read more

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