Flingo, which "integrates streaming video and interactive advertising into smart TVs," has raised an additional $7 million to invest in personnel, infrastructure and international expansion, writes Ryan Lawler. Flingo technology is currently used in 118 countries, and its co-founder and CEO, Ashwin Navin, will be traveling to Asia to expand its base there.

In this age of social media, can TV and radio exposure still boost music sales?  It sure can, if your TV exposure comes during the Super Bowl halftime, and your radio exposure comes from a massive push by giant station owner Clear Channel.  Madonna’s new single, “Give Me All Your Luvin,'" is already number two on iTunes Store's songs ranking, “potentially setting up a strong debut on this week's Billboard Hot 100 chart,” writes Gary Trust.  Madonna performed the song during halftime, after Clear Channel’s pop stations had been playing it at the top of every hour from Friday morning …

John Koblin fills in the rosy picture for Architectural Digest, which includes substantial increases in ad pages.  And last week its publisher, Conde Nast, awarded the veteran pub the title of "best business turnaround." As one of the Class of 2010 -- a large group of publications that rolled out big changes then -- AD "is now in the early lead," writes Koblin, providing specific stats on both newsstand sales and its ad page bumps, along with optimistic quotes from publisher Giulio Capua.

Unlike the Super Bowl, the actual, real-time Grammy Awards will be available only on broadcast TV (CBS) this year, but there will be a host of digital extras available on Grammy Live, "a three-day orgy of live-streaming and social media beginning this Friday and continuing through Sunday," with such events as "host-anchored behind-the-scenes coverage (with talent including Alison Haislip and John Norris) and video of other events leading up to the awards," writes Liz Shannon Miller. "After the show, the Grammys will once again face the problem they had last year: actually getting the live performances from the …

Disney's Club Penguin, a virtual world for kids, is debuting a print magazine in the U.K. this week, as a test for starting print titles in other countries. Apparently the British market for such a pub is a healthy one, according to a Club Penguin co-founder. "The Club Penguin monthly title will be judged not just by how many are sold but by how many of the game codes and 'extras' included in the magazine are redeemed online by Club Penguin's target market of seven- to 11-year-olds," writes Kate Bulkley.

Despite cool extras like the ability to pause and rewind and watch from four different camera angles, "the 2012 Super Bowl streaming experience itself left a lot to be desired," writes Rip Empson. The historic digital event fell down on delivery of the halftime show, and of ads in real time (though for some viewers, missing out on that '80s era disco spectacle provided by Madonna could have been a blessing. We're just saying).

British newspapers such as The Sun are definitely feeling the heat from social media and Web competition. In fact, Sun editor Dominic Mohan told a British Parliamentary committee that Twitter and celebrity-focused blogs could put the paper out of business, "if such sites were able to report scandals that newspapers were forbidden to write about because of privacy injunctions, writes Ben Fenton.

The New York Times, which previously bulked up its tech and business and finance blogs (Bits and Deal Book, respectively) is now giving the same treatment to its health blog, Well -- with both Well and Bits being positioned to appeal more to a BtoB audience, a company exec announced during its earning call. Also part of the paper's digital strategy: a series of perks for paying subscribers, including free Kindle and Nook access, and corporate and educational group rates.

Here's three ways that a heaping helping of techn wizardy will make this year's big game different from any in the past: For one, NBC will be using a new camera "that will allow crews to capture higher quality images for ultra-slow-motion replays," writesBroadcasting & Cable's George Winslow. Images should be clearer, with details enhanced. And for another, there's social media: "I can easily armchair quarterback on a much larger scale,” says one user who plans to watch the game "with an iPhone in one hand and an iPad at his hip," in this piece by Bloomberg's Heather …

Two masthead jumps: USA Today is hiring Paul Singer, late of Roll Call,  as its new politics editor to cover the 2012 campaign. And former New York Times columnist  Virginia Heffernan is joining Yahoo News as its national correspondent, in what Dylan Byers calls Yahoo's "most high-profile move since announcing the expansion of its political coverage."