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Zachary Sniderman / Mashable!:
Amazon Embraces HTML5 for New Ebooks — Amazon is gearing up to introduce a new, HTML5-based ebook format called Kindle Format 8, the company announced Friday. — KF8 is an improvement over the current Mobi 7 standard, with new features that allow publishers to create richer formats and add more advanced design elements.
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
JP Morgan: Kindle Fire expected to sell 5 million in Q4 — Just weeks after dismissing the Kindle Fire as a potential challenger to the iPad, J.P. Morgan is now upping its assessment of Amazon's debut tablet, saying the device is expected to move 4.5 to 5 million units in the fourth quarter.
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Netflix Streams Revs, But Stock Takes Big Hit — Netflix Streams Revs, But Stock Takes Big Hit 7 hours ago — Even with its admitted marketing blunders, recent Netflix financial results appeared relatively unscathed — but the stock market didn't respond well. ...
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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Netflix Shares Tank After Losing Subscribers, And Terrible Guidance — The Netflix numbers are out, and while the company beat revenue and earnings expectations, it lost U.S. subscribers and had terrible guidance. — The stock is getting smashed, falling 21% 28% in after hours trading.
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Tanzina Vega / NYT Media Decoder:
Group Says Newspapers Aren't Dead, They're Alluring — With more people getting their daily dose of news online through blogs and social media sites, traditional newspapers have gotten short shrift. Print is dead or dying, say media experts, and advertising can't keep pace.
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News International makes concession over Glenn Mulcaire damages — James Murdoch says NI will pay damages awarded against Mulcaire, for phones hacked on behalf of News of the World — James Murdoch has admitted that News International will have to pay any damages awarded …
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Richard Blackden / Telegraph:
Rupert Murdoch urged to sell off newspapers by top News Corp shareholder
Tim Adler / Deadline.com:
Hacking Update: “No Bombshell” As Les Hinton Testifies; James Murdoch Scheduled To Face MPs On November 10
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David Leigh / Guardian:
BBC inquiry over solicitor's ‘rogue reporter’ phone-hacking admission
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James Robinson / Guardian:
Hinton: I was right to say hacking wasn't rife
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Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Senior Media Liaison Karen Wickre leaves Google for Twitter — Karen Wickre, the Senior Media Liaison at Google for the last nine years has left Google and joined Twitter. — Wickre held a very senior PR position at Google for a long time, and was the go between for project managers and the media.
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
James O'Keefe's Latest Project Alleges Journalistic Corruption; Targets HuffPost's Sam Stein — James O'Keefe and his Project Veritas appear to have a new institution in their sights with a new hidden camera video project titled “To Catch a Journalist: Part One.”
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Erik Wemple, Poynter and Big Journalism
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
CNET In Talks To Acquire gdgt As Early As This Week — Back in 2009, TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington wrote that CNET (and parent company CBS) were sniffing around gdgt, the then-brand-new community/review site/blog by Peter Rojas and Ryan Block. While CNET was considering an investment at the time …
Christopher Hope / Telegraph:
WikiLeaks' money woes brings end to leak of secrets — WikiLeaks is to stop publishing state secrets because it is running out of money, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. — The whistleblowing website set up by Julian Assange said that it is temporarily suspending publication of leaks to fight a “blockade” by credit card companies.
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Patrick Twohy / San Francisco Business Times:
Bay Citizen news site loses CEO on heels of editor … Lisa Frazier, the founding CEO for the Bay Citizen, a news site created with funding and help from Bay Area money man Warren Hellman, is stepping down, according to a story posted on the Bay Citizen's website on Friday.
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Three Editors Depart Details, The Fix Picks Up One — Details entertainment editor David Walters resigned today to take a job at The Daily, according to a Conde Nast source. — Mr. Walters is the third high-level departure at Conde Nast's other men's magazine this month.
Huffington Post Canada:
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Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Agency says HuffPo story payout sets precedent
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Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
‘Rock Center’ Winning Higher Ad Rates Than Some NBC Stalwarts — Tuning In: Why NBC Likes Brian Williams More Than the Playboy Bunnies — Looks like NBC's dapper news anchor Brian Williams has more leverage with advertisers than a passel of scantily-clad cocktail waitresses.
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Jennifer LaFleur / ProPublica:
Government Could Hide Existence of Records under FOIA Rule Proposal — A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don't exist - even when they do.
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Matt Kinsman / Folio:
The Atlantic Sees 19 Percent Jump in Ad Revenue for Third Quarter — Publisher remains on track for “multi-million dollar” profit in 2011. — For the 12th consecutive quarter in a row, The Atlantic is reporting gains in print and online revenue. In third quarter 2011 …
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Mashable!, FishbowlNY, eMedia Vitals and Canadian Magazines
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Piper Jaffray: Apple is already building prototype TV sets — The solution Steve Jobs said he “finally cracked” could be a $6 billion business by 2014 — Click to enlarge. Source: www.patentlyapple.com — In a note to clients released Monday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster seizes …
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Julie Cohn / The Daily:
CNBC cancels $1M investing contest after players game the system — It turns out CNBC's fantasy stock market game approximates reality a little better than the network had anticipated. — Its much-hyped Million-Dollar Portfolio Challenge was suspended Friday because some cagey users managed to game the system.
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