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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
News among most popular tablet uses, US report finds — Study by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, in collaboration with the Economist Group, also found more users prefer to view news via browsers rather than apps — US tablet survey found that browsers are more popular than apps for consuming news
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Journalism.org:
How People Use Tablets and What it Means for the Future of News — Eighteen months after the introduction of the iPad, 11% of U.S. adults now own a tablet computer of some kind. About half (53%) get news on their tablet every day, and they read long articles as well as get headlines.
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Study: Tablet Users Love to Read the News, Still Reluctant to Pay for It
Study: Tablet Users Love to Read the News, Still Reluctant to Pay for It
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Adweek
John Koblin / WWD:
Huffington Post Launches Parentlode Blog — HUFFING AND PUFFING: The New York Times and The Huffington Post feud isn't going away. — Times lawyers fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Arianna Huffington on Monday, claiming that The Huffington Post's new blog, Parentlode …
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Adweek, Betabeat, Poynter, The Atlantic Wire, paidContent, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Gawker and The Huffington Post
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Netflix Puts Global Expansion On Hold As Costs Drag It Down — Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is on the road to profitability in Canada, but costs for its global roll-out are set to turn the company loss-making next year. So, after its next launches in the new year, Netflix will freeze international expansion.
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Guardian
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David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
Is It “Nuclear Winter” For Netflix? Analysts Tell Investors To Bail After 3Q Setbacks
Is It “Nuclear Winter” For Netflix? Analysts Tell Investors To Bail After 3Q Setbacks
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Ars Technica, Techland, TechCrunch and Associated Press, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Reed Hastings Lays Out the Netflix Comeback Plan
Reed Hastings Lays Out the Netflix Comeback Plan
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Felix Salmon, CNET News, Los Angeles Times, The Week, FT Alphaville and Forbes
Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
News Corp: James Murdoch suffers confidence blow in vote — News Corp shareholders have dealt a significant blow to James Murdoch and his brother Lachlan at this year's annual general meeting, with around a third of all shareholders voting against both — James Murdoch has been re-elected …
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Guardian, MediaFile, Journalism.co.uk, Deadline.com and The Huffington Post
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Dalya Alberge / Guardian:
Phone hacking: book publishing executives targeted
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple TV Effort Said to Be Led By ITunes Creator — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is turning to the software engineer who built iTunes to help lead its development of a television set, according to three people with knowledge of the project. — Jeff Robbin, who helped create the iPod in addition …
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Steve Zeitchik / LA Times:
Will Aaron Sorkin take on Steve Jobs?
Will Aaron Sorkin take on Steve Jobs?
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/Film, Mashable!, AppleInsider, WebProNews, www.wnyc.org, The Next Web and NME News
Media Monkey / The Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch bows to Steve Jobs
Rupert Murdoch bows to Steve Jobs
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Speakeasy, Forbes, Guardian, Poynter, The Wrap, Softpedia News and VentureBeat
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon Misses, Q3 Sales Up 44 Percent To $10.9B; Net Income Down 73 Percent To $63M — Amazon reported third quarter earnings today. Net income decreased 73% to $63 million in the third quarter, or $0.14 per diluted share, compared with net income of $231 million, or $0.51 per diluted share, in third quarter 2010.
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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
No, CNET Is NOT In Talks To Buy gdgt — Several sources close to CBS Interactive tell us that CNET is not in talks to buy gadget news site gdgt, shooting down a report that a buy is imminent. — One source said that CNET hadn't even approached gdgt for a round of talks.
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
CNET In Talks To Acquire gdgt As Early As This Week
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Google asked to remove 135 YouTube videos for ‘UK national security issues’ — US technology giant reports 71% rise in content removal requests from UK government or police — British police authorities ordered the removal of 135 videos from YouTube in the first half of this year …
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Search Engine Land, Digits, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Threat Level, more at Techmeme »
Michael Musto / La Daily Musto:
Bloomberg Media To Be Rocked with Discrimination Lawsuit — I've just learned that Bloomberg Media's International Managing Director of Television Brian Martinez—who I knew back in the '90s club days—is filing suit with that company for having been relieved of his duties in July.
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The New York Observer, FishbowlNY and Talking Biz News
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Obama freezes local reporters out of S.F. event — President Obama is scheduled to appear before hundreds of donors at a $7,500-a-plate noontime fundraiser today at San Francisco's W Hotel - but not a single local reporter will be allowed inside to cover his only stop in the area, the White House said Monday.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
TMZ founder Harvey Levin's unsolicited advice to mainstream media: Adapt or die — America's foremost gossipmonger has a little unsolicited advice for the nation's mainstream media: Your business model is broken. Your future is in jeopardy. Adapt or die.
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Gawker, TeleRead and Collective Talent
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Larry King Confirms Radio Rumors... Plus a New TV Show? — Talkers magazine speaks to Larry King, where the longtime host of “Larry King Live,” reveals that he is very close to a new LA-based radio show (as long rumored) as well as a new TV program: … continued... New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
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FishbowlLA and TALKERS.COM
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Facebook Co-Founder Aims to Bring Venture Capital Model to Media — The Knight Foundation, a sponsor of journalism-innovation projects, named Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and digital experts from Harvard and MIT to its board, where they'll take a venture-capital-like approach to media.