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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Amazon: Big Kindle sales, but sales and outlook fall short — Summary: Amazon's fourth quarter sales and outlook fall short of expectations. Kindle sales surge. — Amazon's fourth quarter sales missed projections, but earnings were ahead. The big wild card was Kindle device sales, which tripled over the holidays.
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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Amazon Blows Q4, Stock Plunges 9% After Hours
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Steven Mikulan / Frying Pan News:
LA Times: Layoffs, Sabotage and Suicides? — Ed Padgett was driving in the rain to a union meeting when the L.A. Times called to tell him he was fired. The pressman, a third-generation Times employee, listened in shock last December to an HR woman's voice explain he was being dismissed for …
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Matthew Fleischer / FishbowlLA:
Suicides and Sabotage at the LA Times
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Future of Journalism and WebProNews
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Neil Young and the Sound of Music — You know what the biggest problem with music today is? — Sound quality. — That's Neil Young's take on the issue, anyway. For years, the musician has been obsessed with improving the way modern music sounds, sonically speaking.
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Epicenter, MediaFile, PC Magazine, WebProNews, Digits, 9to5Mac, The Wrap, Rolling Stone and Electronista, more at Techmeme »
John Ellis / BuzzFeed:
Big Media Is About To Pull The Plug On Newt Gingrich — The suits are taking charge, and they're killing the travel budgets. Sorry Newt, Rick, Zeke! — Gingrich is about to lose his pack. — It's January 31st and it's over. Mitt Romney has blown away the field in the Florida primary …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Viacom's Philippe Dauman Says “Mob Mentality” Doomed SOPA and PIPA — The “mob mentality” and “unfortunate rhetoric” around the protest of SOPA and PIPA earlier this month unnecessarily polarized the copyright debate between the technology and entertainment industries, said Viacom President …
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VentureBeat and Hillicon Valley
Meena Hart Duerson / NY Daily News:
Facebook Subscribe exposes journalists to spam, pornography, some users complain — Some women say they are overwhelmed by inappropriate content — Journalists have begun to voice complaints about Facebook's Subscribe feature. — When the Travel Channel's Nisha Chittal launched …
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Mashable!, JIMROMENESKO.COM and The Newspaper Guild
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Interview: David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream — The chief executive of one of the fastest-growing startups on the internet says he lied about his age and experience to woo clients — David Karp, the founder of the blogging platform Tumblr, was 17 when he decided to cut the apron strings and move to Tokyo.
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Ben Fenton / Financial Times:
New Sunday newspaper on hold after Sun arrests
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Jason Kilar: Hulu's 2011 Revenues Of $420 Million Was Actually Above The “Board Plan” — Last year, Hulu brought in $420 million in revenues, with was 60 percent above the year before. The news, however, was seen as a miss because Hulu earlier in the year suggested that it would make $500 million.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Sorry Dick, but Twitter is definitely a media entity — At the Dive Into Media conference on Monday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said the company doesn't see itself as a media entity, although he admited it is in the media business. It's not surprising Twitter wouldn't want to come right …
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Dara Kerr / CNET:
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talks censorship
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The Wall Blog, AllThingsD, Sammy Hub and GigaOM
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
The New Yorker's David Remnick: Paper Magazines Are “Pretty Good Technology” — Quality long-form writing has a place in the Internet age, says the New Yorker editor David Remnick — and it's worth paying for. — Asked whether print magazines would last another 20 years, Remnick said …
Richard Huff / NY Daily News:
Fox News Channel set to make ratings milestone with 10 years atop the Nielsen charts — Shepard Smith says the station can stay No. 1 as long as it takes care of its product — Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith. — Amid the day-long coverage of the Florida primary vote Tuesday …
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Mediaite, The Huffington Post, TVNewser, Inside Cable News and Media Buyer Planner
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
A new iPad app that promises a future for long-form journalism — Longform.org, one of the growing breed of aggregators and social sites spreading multi-thousand-word journalism around the web, announced today that it will debut an iPad app tomorrow. — And unlike some magazines …
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JIMROMENESKO.COM and Poynter
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama finds virtual end-around to bypass the White House press — President Obama is finding ways to get his message to the public without going through the White House press corps. — Obama on Monday held his “first completely virtual interview” as part of an event hosted by Google+ …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
As Sky Growth Slows, Can Internet Defend It From Downturn And New Rivals? — BSkyB's financials are still improving, but the company is now flaunting a range of new internet upgrades to try containing subscriber growth slow-down and potential threats from newcomers.
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Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
BSkyB to Start Movie Service Rivaling Netflix
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paidContent and Online Video News
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Patriot-News submits Sara Ganim's Penn State sex abuse reporting for Pulitzer — Daily News columnist John Baer reports that The Patriot-News has submitted Sara Ganim's stories about the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse allegations for a Pulitzer Prize. (The deadline to enter was last week.)
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