"I'm not sure I understand why new-media companies need to pay to get big companies to pay attention to them, " says Dave L. Balter, founder of BzzAgent, a word-of-mouth marketer that Puris approached about joining up.

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Puris has knitted together a network of 32 new-media agencies to offer their services to the kind of big-brand clients he took care of for decades.

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During these periods reporters from accredited media organisations (some of which have big data-feed businesses) get an early look at the new number so they can prepare detailed articles to be distributed at the moment of official release.

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Polygon, with a star-studded cast (at least in the video game blogging world) that includes the former editors-in-chief at three top competitors, is the latest big move for Vox Media, the relatively new parent company of SB Nation, The Verge, and Polygon.

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Fusion-io speaks to the new architecture powering cloud, mobile, big data, and social media.

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The conference launched the same year as a new 24-hour sports network, ESPN, which bought the media rights to Big East games and made them an early staple of its programming.

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