Mediagazer: Yep, LinkedIn Acquires Newsreader Startup Pulse for $90 Million (Mike Isaac/AllThingsD)

10:15 AM ET, April 12, 2013

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Twitter's New Music App Launches Friday — Next up on the jukebox — Twitter Music. — The microblogging service plans to launch its new standalone music application on Friday, according to sources familiar with the matter. — (Update 7:59 pm PT: Of note — another source claims …

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Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Twitter Acquires We Are Hunted, Should Open New Marketing Doors For Artists

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Yep, LinkedIn Acquires Newsreader Startup Pulse for $90 Million — LinkedIn announced on Thursday it has acquired mobile news aggregation startup Pulse, as Kara Swisher reported last month that it would, signaling another step by the massive professional network toward becoming an online content powerhouse.

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Apple and Universal Music agreement on streaming iRadio service imminent — Apple is expected to sign the largest record label perhaps as soon as next week, sources say. Warner Music is right behind. — Apple is expected to sign its first internet radio licensing agreement …

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Flipboard Adds 3 Million Users Since Launch Of Personalized Magazines, Over 500,000 Magazines Created To Date — Mobile magazine Flipboard revealed today that over half a million personalized magazines have been created on its platform since the launch of the new feature just two weeks prior.

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Eric Benson / New York Magazine:

New Journalism — SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein on winning the court press wars. — When you started SCOTUSblog in 2002, did you see an opening for more comprehensive Supreme Court coverage? — No, it had nothing to do with that. I had decided that I was going to be a Supreme Court litigator …

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Taylor Miller Thomas / Poynter:

Changes to Hawaii's shield law 'ignorant of what's going on in the media world' — A proposed Hawaii law would limit the use of anonymous sources and would removes protections on other reporting done by journalists. According to some Hawaii journalists, the law, now passed by the state's House …

Associated Press:

BBC faces Thatcher dilemma as opponents push ‘Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead’ to top of charts — LONDON — The BBC is in a bind after opponents of late British leader Margaret Thatcher pushed the song “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead” to the top of the charts.

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Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:

Egypt's president to host Twitter sessions to connect with his people — Mohamed Morsi will host regular Q&A sessions in move designed to ease concerns after crackdown on journalists — Egypt's president, Mohamed Morsi, has announced plans to respond to citizens' concerns every night on Twitter …

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Josh Stearns / Groundswell:

New York City to Pay $75,000 to Occupy Livestream Collective — When the New York Police Department raided the Occupy encampment in Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011 they arrested more than 10 journalists and threatened or harassed many others. However, they also destroyed an enormous amount …

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Design isn't just for the big guys: In Memphis, the Commercial Appeal retells MLK's last 32 hours — It's been 45 years since Martin Luther King, Jr.'s murder was on the front pages of newspapers around the country. For The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, the story was a local one …

Janko Roettgers / paidContent:

Netflix users watched four billion hours of video in Q1 — Looks like House of Cards is starting to have an impact: Netflix members watched more than four billion hours of video during the first three months of 2013, according to the company's CEO Reed Hastings, who took to Facebook to publish the milestone Thursday.

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Jack Shafer:

Our national pastime: Press criticism — In early 1946, Albert Camus emptied into New Yorker press critic A.J. Liebling's ear his plan for a new newspaper. — “It would be a critical newspaper, to be published one hour after the first editions of the other papers, twice a day …