Advertising: Plans Call for Reinforcements at Johannes Leonardo

Johannes Leonardo in New York is hiring a new chief executive, Michael Duda, and bolstering its creative team as well.

    



Signs of Change in News Mission at Bloomberg

Bloomberg faces newsroom layoffs, a shift in emphasis back to financial news and skepticism from the business side that investigative journalism might not be worth the potential problems it could create for terminal sales.

    



Advertising: Shazam Deal Aims to Tie Songs Fast to Products

Marketers are only now beginning to deploy music as a very direct conduit to the things they sell, but a deal between an audio-recognition app and the Mindshare agency is a step forward.

    



Herbert Mitgang, 93, Intrepid Journalist

Mr. Mitgang, a longtime reporter and editor for The New York Times, told of mountains of F.B.I. and C.I.A. records squirreled away on America’s most well-known writers.

    



Siding With Google, Judge Says Book Search Does Not Infringe Copyright

The Authors Guild said it disagreed with the decision and planned to appeal. Google said it was “delighted” with the outcome.

    



IBM to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet

Companies, academics and individual software developers will be able to use Watson at a small fraction of the previous cost.

    



Google Glass Will Expand Its Features Into Music

Glass can now be used to search for songs, scan through saved playlists and listen to music in high fidelity.

    



In Music Piracy Battles, Lyrics Demand Respect Too

A new push by the National Music Publishers Association will challenge websites that publish lyrics without licenses.

    



The Haggler: Mug-Shot Websites, Retreating or Adapting

After an October article, at least one big site has stopped charging fees for removing arrest photographs. But another has resumed the practice.

    

Google Is Ordered to Block Images in Privacy Case

The Internet company said it would appeal a French court’s ruling that it strip from its search results nine images of the former European racing chief Max Mosley.

    



Critic’s Notebook: YouTube Holds Its First Music Awards Show

This first YouTube Music Awards was a show of essentially no consequence, but one that valued a theoretically equal playing field, risk taking, resilience in the face of failure and evanescence.

    



Disney and Dish Wrangle Not Over Broadcast Fees, but the Future of TV

The protracted distribution negotiations under way between Dish Network and the Walt Disney Company are said to focus on digital rights like ad-skipping and online streaming.

    



Ads Scant When Twitter Crosses Borders

Though three-quarters of its users are outside the United States, only a modest portion of its ad revenue is generated there. But it’s growing fast.

    



Riding the Hashtag in Social Media Marketing

Gary Vaynerchuk, a social media marketer, pounces on any trend — tweeted or otherwise — in his quest to sell, sell, sell.

    



Advertising: Painting a Room With Blues, or Hip-Hop, or Mozart

A paint company is offering a smartphone app that suggests paint colors based on consumers’ favorite songs.

    



YouTube Said to Introduce Paid Service for Music

The company plans to introduce the subscription service by the end of the year, perhaps as early as next month, according to people briefed on YouTube’s plans.

    



An Interview With Pierre Omidyar

The founder of eBay explains his thinking in backing a general-interest news site with Glenn Greenwald.

    



The Media Equation: Tech Wealth and Ideas Are Heading Into News

The technology industry and its various power brokers are suddenly investing significant sums of money in preserving news capacity and quality.

    



As Downloads Dip, Music Executives Cast a Wary Eye on Streaming Services

Total digital sales are down almost 1 percent so far this year, and some in the industry cite the rise of streaming music services like Spotify and Pandora.

    



Chelsa Skees, Dennis Crowley: ‘Girl Version’ of Him, ‘Boy Version’ of Her

The groom, a founder of Foursquare, used social media to woo his bride, a director at Bobbi Brown Cosmetics.