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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
EC Opens Formal Antitrust Proceedings To Investigate E-book Sales ‘Cartel’ — The European Commission this morning announced that it has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether a number of international ebook publishers have engaged in anti-competitive practices affecting …
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AllThingsD, ZDNet, GigaOM and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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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 in to whether Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and book publishers are limiting e-book competition with their “agency” pricing model.
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Electronista and EU Press Room
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 …
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 …
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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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GigaOM, MediaPost, Home Media Magazine, GeekWire, Microsoft, MediaPost, Microsoft Advertising Blog, Digits, The Tech Trade, paidContent, Pocket-lint, Guardian, CNET News, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Multichannel, Engadget and TechNet Blogs
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.
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Editor & Publisher ® and Softpedia News
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, Washington Post, LA Observed, Gawker, The Awl, 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
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Company Town, Poynter and NY Post
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
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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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The Huffington Post
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
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
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 …
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Deadline.com
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.
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TheAustralian, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Cox is latest to bring live TV to the iPad — Cox Communications is making live TV available on the iPad, with the release of a new app that lets subscribers watch shows and movies while in their homes. The Cox TV Connect app makes it the latest in a series of pay TV operators to extend their services to new devices.
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Multichannel, Lost Remote, Electronista, MediaPost and Broadcasting & Cable, more at Techmeme »
Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
Bronfman Is Stepping Down as Warner Music Chairman — Edgar M. Bronfman Jr., who has been a top executive in the music industry since the mid-1990s, is stepping down as chairman of the Warner Music Group.
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AllAccess.com, AllThingsD, Variety, New York Post, Rolling Stone and The Wrap
Rick Martin / Penn-Olson:
Flipboard Coming to China, Teams Up With Sina and Renren — Earlier this year you may recall that everyone's favorite iPad reading app Flipboard was blocked in China. But apparently the GFW ain't no thang, as the company has made its way into China via big-name partnerships with none other than Sina …
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Wall Street Journal and paidContent:UK, more at Techmeme »
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Mitt Romney's media blowback — Mitt Romney's vulnerabilities as a candidate are well known, yet a seemingly new one surfaced last week: his unusual brittleness in the face of media questions. — With one prickly interview with Fox's Bret Baier on Tuesday — in which the candidate appeared uncomfortable …
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American Journalism Review, New York Magazine, Media Decoder and The Huffington Post
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BBC:
Leveson Inquiry: Detective hired to follow Grant — Much of the evidence referred to during Alexander Owens's appearance was kept private — A private detective was hired by journalists to uncover personal details about celebrities including actor Hugh Grant, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.
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Martin Evans / The Telegraph:
Leveson inquiry: editors 'could have been prosecuted over private detective's blagging'
Leveson inquiry: editors 'could have been prosecuted over private detective's blagging'
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Telegraph and The Independent