Firms like Bertelsmann , which was happy to enter the U.S. media market by acquiring Random House , apparently are less happy at the prospect of facing aggressive, U.S.-style competition on their home turf.

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Social media is by nature random.

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O. of Idea Logical, a media-consulting firm, believes that Random House is holding out for a better deal.

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Walt Mossberg's most recent Personal Technology column smacked hard on the complicated nature of this as well, but instead of just complaining, we're going to show you yet another way of getting some pretty amazing, scary, and completely random videos from around the web automatically uploaded onto your Portable Media Center.

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"We don't like it when our brand shows up next to something random, which has been our experience on the Web so far, " says mtv's digital media head, Nicholas Rockwell.

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