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10:10 AM ET, March 12, 2013

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Telegraph group cuts 80 print jobs as daily and Sunday titles merge  —  The Telegraph group is to shed 80 of its 550 editorial staff as part of what the chief executive, Murdoch MacLennan, calls a root and branch restructure of the business.  It will mean the complete merger of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph as a seven-day operation.
Paul Sloan / CNET:
Spotify: Growing like mad, yet so far to go  —  The digital music service has added another 1 million subscribers since December, bringing its global total of paying customers to 6 million.  —  AUSTIN, Texas — It's not a bluegrass jam on the legendary Austin City Limits stage …
Discussion: AllThingsD
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Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
Spotify Said Expanding Pandora-Like Web Radio Worldwide  —  Spotify Ltd., the subscription music-streaming service, is close to agreements with record labels to expand its free mobile radio product outside the U.S., said three people with knowledge of the talks.
Discussion: hypebot and The Verge
Bryan Goldberg / PandoDaily:
Gawker admits defeat, tries to replicate Bleacher Report and Huffington Post  —  I don't cover news for PandoDaily, but I figured that I would give it a shot today.  —  Gawker has thrown in the towel on their old model.  Today, their popular Deadspin blog has announced that they are creating a …
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
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Tommy Craggs / Deadspin:   Welcome To The New Deadspin  —  Hi.  The place looks different, doesn't it?
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Politico hits 1,000 Pro subscriptions and plans to launch a magazine  —  Over a thousand organizations are now using subscription site Politico Pro, the politics website announced Tuesday.  Politico says the site reaches 7,000 professionals per month and has a renewal rate of 96 percent.
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Can anyone turn streaming music into a real business?  —  After ten years of struggle, nobody has figured out how to make music pay  —  “The subscription model has failed so far,” Steve Jobs said in April 2007.  “People want to own their music.”  At that time, Apple had solved the problem …
Discussion: @pkafka and Gizmodo
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Finally: hear Bradley Manning in his own voice  —  A full audio recording of the whistleblower is released today despite a court prohibition on such recordings  —  The court-martial proceeding of Bradley Manning has, rather ironically, been shrouded in extreme secrecy …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
LinkedIn to Buy Pulse Newsreader for More than $50M  —  LinkedIn will buy the maker of the newsreader app Pulse, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.  —  The price of the acquisition is in the tens of millions, they said — between $50 million to $100 million.
Richard Verrier / Los Angeles Times:
Cinedigm creating new paradigm for digital movie distribution  —  Cinedigm plans to transform itself into a leading digital distributor of movies, documentaries and TV shows — not just to theaters but a variety of platforms.  —  Chris McGurk, chief executive of Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp …
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Vimeo now lets video producers sell and rent their work - and keep 90% of the revenue  —  Vimeo's business model has taken a major step forward today with the launch of Vimeo On Demand, an easy way for video producers to distribute and earn revenue from their work.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
With Spotify On The Web Horizon, Rdio Takes Its Browser-Based Music Service To 7 New Markets; Now Reaching 24  —  The land grab for online music streaming services continues.  On the heels of reports that Spotify is planning to take its web-based music player global to complement its desktop and mobile apps …
 
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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
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