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Bloomberg:
Apple, E-Book Publishers Probed by EU Agency — Apple Inc. (AAPL), the world's biggest technology company, and five e-book publishers are being investigated by European Union antitrust regulators over deals that may restrict sales across the region. — The probe targets the iPad-maker's deals …
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Europe Probing Apple And Publishers For E-book Price ‘Cartel’ — After carrying out unannounced inspections at the companies back in March, the European Commission is now starting a formal antitrust investigation into whether Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and book publishers are limiting e-book competition with their “agency” pricing model.
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AllThingsD, Fast Company, ZDNet and Electronista, more at Techmeme »
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Why Europe's trustbusters targeted Apple's e-book ‘cartel’ — The antitrust probe dates back to a deal Steve Jobs cut with five publishers in Jan. 2010 — The language of the European Commission's press release Tuesday announcing the start of a formal antitrust investigation of Apple …
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TechCrunch, Associated Press, GigaOM and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: Chris Atkins, David Leigh, Charlotte Harris - live — Full coverage as the Starsuckers director, Guardian journalist and lawyer for phone-hacking victims give evidence — 9.16am: The Independent points out that former information commissioner Richard Thomas told …
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James Cusick / The Independent:
Watchdog chief faces grilling over failure to act on press's dirty tricks — The Information Commissioner who presided over a massive investigation into newspapers' illegal use of a private investigator may have to explain this week why he told MPs no legal action was necessary despite …
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Buyouts offered at The Gazette, Washington Post's community newspapers in Maryland — The buyouts were mentioned at the bottom of a story announcing that Chuck Lyons is moving from CEO to chairman of Post-Newsweek Media, the business division that includes The Gazette: “In an unrelated development …
Discussion:
Gazette.Net Maryland …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
For Local NBC Stations, Collaborative Journalism — In a sign of increasing collaboration between journalism groups, NBC on Tuesday will announce a series of partnerships between its television stations and nonprofit news organizations. — Effectively immediately, NBC's station in Chicago …
Discussion:
Deadline.com
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Financial Times Launches Dedicated Android App — With mobile readers proving to be very avid readers of the Financial Times, the newspaper has launched a new version of its native Android app that it hopes will bring in more users on the platform on both smartphones and tablets.
Discussion:
Editor & Publisher ® and Softpedia News
New York Times:
Xbox Live Challenges the Cable Box — The old-fashioned cable television set-top box — long the hub of living-room entertainment for most people — is about to become less relevant. — Beginning on Tuesday and continuing through the month, Microsoft will give a face-lift …
Discussion:
Multichannel News, PopWatch and Forbes
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft upgrades Xbox Live with 40 entertainment services, live TV, and Kinect voice control
Microsoft upgrades Xbox Live with 40 entertainment services, live TV, and Kinect voice control
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Forbes, MediaPost, GigaOM, Home Media Magazine, GeekWire, Microsoft, MediaPost, Microsoft Advertising Blog, Pocket-lint, Digits, paidContent, The Tech Trade, Guardian, CNET News, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Multichannel, Engadget and TechNet Blogs
Indiewire:
Exclusive: ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Producer Scott Rudin Replies To David Denby's Upcoming New Yorker Review Embargo Break — “They reviewed what?” — If you follow movie insider baseball news you may have heard the embargo on Sony's “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” is about to break tomorrow …
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New Yorker, Deadline.com, New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, LA Observed, Washington Post, The Awl, Gawker, Embargo Watch and The Huffington Post
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Steve Pond / The Wrap:
Sony Furious Over New Yorker's Plan to Break ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Review Embargo
Sony Furious Over New Yorker's Plan to Break ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Review Embargo
Discussion:
Company Town, Media Decoder and Poynter
Linda Holmes / NPR:
Honor Among Thumbs: A ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Spat And An Imperfect System
Honor Among Thumbs: A ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Spat And An Imperfect System
Discussion:
AllThingsD, Gothamist and Carpetbagger
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Aaron Sorkin's HBO Cable News Series To Be Called ‘Newsroom’ — Exclusive: The upcoming HBO drama about cable news from “The West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin finally has a name. TVNewser has learned that HBO is expected to call the series “Newsroom.” — Sorkin's series follows fictional …
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JIMROMENESKO.COM and The Huffington Post
Julia Angwin / The Wall Street Journal:
WikiLeaks Associates Seek Injunction on Twitter Data — Three WikiLeaks associates are appealing a court order that would force Twitter Inc. to hand over information from their accounts without a search warrant. — The WikiLeaks associates - Jacob Appelbaum, Rop Gonggrijp, and Birgitta Jonsdottir …
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia Merge to Create CNBC International — TVNewser has learned CNBC president Mark Hoffman sent out a memo this morning announcing that CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia have merged to form CNBC International. — Mick Buckley, who headed CNBC Europe, is leaving the company after eight years.
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
What the media can learn from Occupy — In 30 years of reporting, I've never covered a story quite like Occupy Wall Street, the cacophonous drum line of a leaderless protest against greed and inequality (and a bunch of other stuff) that started in New York on Sept. 17 and spread quickly to Philadelphia on its path from coast to coast.
Discussion:
Online News Association and @romenesko
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Kindle Fire Offers ‘Disappointingly Poor’ Experience; ‘Miserable’ Magazines — Will the projected 3.9 million Kindle Fire buyers this quarter end up disappointed with their new tablets? User-experience guru Jakob Nielsen's new usability report finds the Fire's 7-inch screen troublesome …
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eMedia Vitals, Alertbox, CNET News, Electronista, Daring Fireball, AllThingsD and Kindle Review, more at Techmeme »
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Wall Street Journal Releases Kindle Fire-Only App
Wall Street Journal Releases Kindle Fire-Only App
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Media Matters for America, CNET News, FT Tech Hub and eMedia Vitals
Reuters:
Australia scraps satellite TV tender in blow to Sky, News Corp. — Australia's government on Monday ruled out awarding a contract to broadcast local television into Asia to a consortium including Rupert Murdoch's part-owned Sky News, deciding the service would stay with the state broadcaster.
Discussion:
TheAustralian, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
Martin Evans / The Telegraph:
Leveson inquiry: editors 'could have been prosecuted over private detective's blagging' — Journalists who commissioned a private detective to illegally obtain personal information and their editors could have been prosecuted but were never pursued, the Leveson inquiry heard today.
Discussion:
Telegraph and The Independent
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