As Time Inc.prepares to spin off from its corporate conglomerate, headed by its fourth CEO in five years, it's unclear where it's headed, according to "interviews with analysts and current and former employees and executives," writes Joe Pompeo. In fact, "these sources painted a picture of a company with legendary brand value that’s caught somewhere between being a rudderless ship full of print products and an innovator that’s well-equipped to navigate media’s digitally-oriented future (with $1.3 billion worth of debt and declining revenues in tow, no less)."

Capitvate Network, which owns the majority of video screens in elevators, will soon own nearly all screens in building lobbies as well,  since it just bought Office Media Network, operator of The Wall Street Journal Office Network. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Brendan Eich, Mozilla's recently appointed CEO, is confused about the controversy surrounding his opposition to gay marriage. As he tells CNet, he thought the Web browser maker was all about inclusiveness of ideas, including his belief that gay Americans should be excluded from the practice of marriage. “Mozilla has always worked according to principles of inclusiveness,” he says. “Everyone in our community can have different beliefs about all sorts of things that may be in conflict.” 

There's been a ton of press and viewers' comments on the Monday night series finale of "How I Met Your Mother," in which the mother  faced a sad ending that outraged many. But here's the first piece that uses the mother's fashion choices as clues to her demise, criticizing the wedding dress she wore: an "ill-fitting, high-shine poly-sateen" that "practically sounded a death knell in my head," writes Veronica Gledhill.

Cosmopolitan's May issue "features a relatively new trend... that could further blur the line between advertising and editorial," writes Alexander Steigrad: a double cover, with the top, peel-away one combining editorial headlines with a bottom line advertising a L'Oreal contest, with a full-page ad on the inside of that cover. “It gives me twice the real estate  to explain what’s in the magazine," says Cosmo editor Joanna Coles. "It’s not purely an ad."

Once thought to be a safe bet for Web publishers, women’s sites are closing left and right. As AOL’s iVillage and DailyCandy wind down operations, Yahoo is reportedly planning to shutter Shine by the second quarter. In its place, “The company is considering chopping it all up and relaunching a series of online lifestyle ‘magazines,’ with a similar model to what it has done with Yahoo Tech and the hiring of high-profile editor and reviewer David Pogue,” Re/Code reports. 

If its merger with Time Warner Cable is approved, Comcast will begin to take its place "as a global technology company and its major competitors the media companies of the future: Google, Amazon, Facebook and even Apple, with which Comcast has been engaging in tentative negotiations," according to the way the company's chief, Eric Roberts, sees it, writes James B. Stewart. “The alternative was to sit around and let cable die a slow death,” Roberts says.