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Jupiter Media buys Mediabistro for $23 million
Now Mediabistro is more than just a site for job listings. It's also a clearinghouse of news about journalism and media jobs. For a subscription fee, users can also get premium content including enrollment in seminars on writing and other topics.
Mediabistro's been on the market since last year, with a $25 million asking price. Once the numbers get above $.02, our heads hurt, so we'll leave it up to you to decide if Jupiter came close to meeting that figure.
Touby will stay on as a senior vice president of the company.

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
