Mediagazer: Amazon's Acquisition Of The Book Depository Gets Official OK (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

9:25 AM ET, October 26, 2011

Top News:

Exclusive: Met finds secret phone at centre of NI hacking — Device nicknamed ‘The Hub’ hidden in offices of ‘News of the World’ — Specialist detectives from the Metropolitan Police have discovered the existence of a secret mobile phone within News International's east London headquarters …

Discussion: The First Post

BBC:

Phone-hacking scandal: Inquiry timetable revealed — Senior judge Lord Leveson will lead a seven-strong panel, which is expected to report within 12 months — The Leveson Inquiry - set up in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal - will start its hearings on 14 November.

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon's Acquisition Of The Book Depository Gets Official OK — Despite industry organizations' fears that Amazon's acquisition of UK online bookseller The Book Depository will create a de facto monopoly, the Office of Fair Trading is approving the merger. In the OFT's view …

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.

Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:
Amazon's Kindle Fire Will Become To The Video Industry What The iPod Was To The Music Industry

Discussion: Mashable!

Matt Kinsman / Folio:

Ziff Davis Enterprise To Go All-Digital In 2012 — Remaining three magazines will convert to digital editions in January. — Ziff Davis Enterprise has launched a new strategy called OmniDigital that will take the company all-digital with emphasis in four keys areas—traditional websites …

Discussion: One Man & His Blog

Sunny Hundal / Liberal Conspiracy:

Watch: Sky compares protesters to Nazis — This clip on Sky News was captured today afternoon. — Adam Boulton of Sky News, unbelievably, tries to compare the protesters to Nazis. — I'm not sure descendants of the Holocaust would quite agree with that. Is Boulton out of his mind? — Watch

Discussion: Guardian and Boing Boing

Christina Boyle / NY Daily News:

Andy Rooney hospitalized over complications from surgery: 60 Minutes curmudgeon in stable condition — Andy Rooney, the veteran television commentator who delivered his final essay on CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” this month, was hospitalized Tuesday. — The 92-year-old developed serious complications …

Discussion: Associated Press

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.

Discussion: Folio, CNET News, Guardian, Poynter, Mashable!, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat, Trends in the Living Networks, mocoNews, Medacity, ReadWriteWeb, Marketing Pilgrim, Gannett Blog, CyberJournalist.net and SiliconFilter, more at Techmeme »

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
News among most popular tablet uses, US report finds

Discussion: Business Week, NetNewsCheck Latest, Reflections of a Newsosaur, FT Tech Hub, Editors Weblog, Future of Journalism, Multichannel, Adweek, Poynter, Broadcasting & Cable, Hillicon Valley and TeleRead

Electronista:

Condé Nast digital subs soar 268% after iPad gets Newsstand — Conde Nast credits iOS 5 to surge in reading — Condé Nast suggested on Tuesday that tablet magazines might have turned a corner with the launch of iOS 5. Since the iPad received access to Newsstand …

Discussion: Pocket-lint, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: Techland, VentureBeat, Digits, Search Engine Land, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Future of Journalism, SiliconFilter, The Next Web, Threat Level and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

BT ordered to block Newzbin2 filesharing site within 14 days — High court ruling at request of Hollywood studios could set precedent for widespread blocking of illegal filesharing websites — BT has been given 14 days to block access to a website accused of promoting illegal filesharing …

more at Techmeme »

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Major media outlets say they won't pull out of Baghdad when Obama does — U.S. Army. — Despite Barack Obama's announcement last Friday that the remaining 39,000 U.S. soldiers still in Iraq would be pulled out by year's end, major American media outlets that have been covering …

Discussion: Mediaite, New York Times and Gawker

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Digital First Media names leadership team — Digital First Media, the new company that runs MediaNews and Journal Register Co. properties, has named its leadership team. Jeff Bairstow, who was Journal Register's chief financial officer, will run daily operations for all news outlets as president of Digital First Media.

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Yemen editor: it's hell here, but we need coverage by international media — What is it like trying to report on the bloody conflict within Yemen? To be honest, says Hakim Almasmari, editor of the English-language Yemen Post , “it's hell.” — He was speaking to the International Press …

Discussion: Reuters and freemedia.at

CNNMoney.com:

Netflix stock sinks 36% as subscribers flee — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Netflix shares plunged 36% in early trading Tuesday after the video rental company said it lost 800,000 subscribers in the third quarter. — Netflix ( NFLX) earned $62 million, or $1.16 a share, on a record $822 million …

Discussion: Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Atlantic Online, Forbes and Felix Salmon