After just six months as editor Newsweek.com, Will Tacy is leaving the company, paidContent has learned. A rep for the weekly mag confirmed that Tacy is exiting, but declined to say if this was voluntary. In any case, Tacy’s departure after just a few short months is only going to add more doubts to Newsweek’s ability to reinvent itself. One month before Tacy was brought on from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, where he was the digital managing editor, Newsweek said it would cut its staff as it slimmed down the print mag and began focusing more on analysis opposed to news summaries and reporting. More after the jump

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Steve Jobs was treated two months ago in a Tennessee hospital for a liver transplant, WSJ reports, citing an unidentified source, who added that the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO will work only part time for the next month or two. So, though Jobs is on schedule to return to work this month as promised, his shortened work days will mean COO Tim Cook, who has served as the company head for the past six months, will continue to have a wider role. Cook is also expected to be named to Apple’s board shortly as well.

Each month, a few additional details about Twitter’s plans to make money trickle out, although so far nothing has come from any of them. The latest possibility: Twitter board member Todd Chaffee tells the NYT that the company could make money from e-commerce. He notes that many people are already using Twitter to get product recommendations and companies are using the service to promote their products so it would follow that people might want to buy items straight from the site.

Don’t expect the majority of Kindle books to be priced at $9.99 for too much longer. In a report Friday, Bernstein Research Analysts Claudio Aspesi and Jeffrey Lindsay say that the average price of Kindle books will have to increase to improve the economics for both publishers and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). They write: “Should $9.99 become the universal price pint, publishers would ultimately be compelled to lower their list prices over time, which would significantly lower their margins. We think Amazon’s strategy, however, is to raise electronic book prices over time, while simultaneously influencing the book publishers to accommodate at least a partly electronic book model.” A suggested new price point that could “dramatically” increase margins for publishers and Amazon: $12.50.

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It’s one thing when indie developers, bloggers and a couple of analysts plead with Sony (NYSE: SNE) to come down on the price of the PS3. It’s another thing when the CEO of Activision—currently the biggest gaming company in the world—says that it might stop making games for the PS3 next year, if Sony doesn’t do something to boost sales. That’s just what Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) CEO Bobby Kotick has done, essentially initiating a very high-stakes game of chicken with Sony’s CEO Sir Howard Stringer: “They have to cut the price, because if they don’t, [the number of games each console owner buys] are likely to slow,” Kotick told the Times Online. “If we are being realistic, we might have to stop supporting Sony.”

It’s almost an after-thought when you realize that Wikipedia doesn’t have any online video. But better late than never. The online user-edited encyclopedia will introduce video clips for its users to run by the end of the summer, Technology Review reports (via ReadWriteWeb). The news comes about two months after Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales pulled the plug on Wikia Search, which let users edit and suggest search results for different queries.

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is preparing to launch a redesign of its MSN portal this fall that will more tightly integrate the site with the company’s other online properties. Microsoft MSN Corporate VP Erik Jorgensen tells paidContent that one goal is to get away from the site’s rather tired listing of links on the top of the home page. “Traditionally, MSN and other portals thought of themselves as internet directories. They have to have 27 channels across (the top of the page) and link to hundreds of headlines. We’ll clean that up,” he says. It “needs a new look and feel.” Jorgensen says the redesigned site will be “simpler,” include tie-ins to various social networks, and will also play up the company’s revamped Bing search engine.

The changes comes as Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is also expected to soon introduce a big overhaul of its home page. But Jorgensen says he “hasn’t seen what Yahoo and others are doing” and adds that the size of MSN’s audience “is not our challenge” since it already has 550 million users and continues to grow. “Our challenge is deepening engagement with those ... users,” he says.

Veodia, the online video broadcaster, has bought ScreenToaster, a browser-based service that lets user capture web videos and audio recordings, the company told paidContent. Terms were not disclosed. Paris-based ScreenToaster launched last fall following an angel round. The three-year-old San Mateo, Calif.-based Veodia raised a $8.3 million first round last year, which CEO and founder Guillaume Cohen told me should carry them through the next few years. The company makes money mostly through consulting fees to marketers who want a quick service for making videos and demos. The ScreenToaster purchase is designed to augment its current offerings.

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The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.

Poster: Jeremiah Owyang

Blog name: Web Strategy

Company: Forrester Research

Backstory: Owyang is a social-media industry analyst who blogs and tweets regularly, although he says he has had to cut back on his posting because of other commitments. When he gets around to it, however, it’s really him sitting behind the screen: “I’m authentic, warts and all,” he says. That, he insists, is not the case with many of his web peers, who don’t manage their own social media efforts, hiring “virtual assistants” to respond to Facebook and Twitter messages and to write blog posts. And, he says, it’s a growing trend.