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AOL Finally Shows a Business Pulse

AOL Inc., the Web publisher that owns the Huffington Post and TechCrunch, climbed the most in three months in New York trading after posting its first sales gain in eight years. Fourth-quarter sales rose 3.9 percent from a year earlier to $599.5 million. Analysts had estimated that revenue would drop to $566.7 million in the [...]

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Media Companies Create Consortium to Highlight Black Buying Power

The power of the black community’s dollar is expected to exceed 1 trillion dollars by 2015 and several media companies have taken notice.  In an effort to tap into this buying power, a group of several companies formed a consortium titled #IntheBlack. BET is the leader of this effort and it includes over a dozen [...]

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Analysis: Gallup Poll Consistently Undercounts Black and Hispanic voters

The nation’s most well-respected polling company, Gallup, under-estimates the public’s support for President Obama because it uses measures that don’t properly count the proportion of black and Hispanic voters who will come to the polls, according to an exhaustive analysis on the Huffington Post. The media’s reporting on election campaigns has become to a large [...]