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Some of Hollywood's big-name mobsters joined forces with a Florida-based non-profit Friday to help save small-town theaters. Owners of small cinemas across the country must switch from 35 mm film to digital - or go silent. The conversion requires new projection equipment, computers and a sound system that can average around $70,000 per screen.

To win in the fast-growing digital-advertising market, Web companies such as Facebook, Google and Groupon are increasingly wooing mom-and-pop businesses.