The Morning Lowdown 1-31-12

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:

»   As Sky growth slows, can Internet defend it from downturn and rivals? (paidContent)

»   Facebook widens its lead over Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) in online display ads—now holds 28 percent of market (WSJ)

»   BuzzFeed bulks up again, with a tech section written by Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan (All Things Digital)

»   Apple (NSDQ:AAPL - News) picks Dixons Group CEO John Browett as retail SVP (paidContent)

»   Hollywood isn’t ruining DVD rentals on its own:Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is happy to help (ReadWriteWeb)

»   Content curation no substitute for content creation (Forrester)

»   Former Cosmo editor gives $30 million to establish media innovation center at Stanford, Columbia (Poynter.)

»   Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to launch in India as Junglee.com (MediaNama)

»   WalmartLabs brings “two pizza teams,” startup culture to Walmart empire (Fast Company)

»   The direct-to-consumer checklist (FutureBook)

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