Mediagazer: Yup, Looks Like It's Mostly Overworked Bloggers Who Use Google Reader (Kelly Faircloth/Betabeat)

6:50 PM ET, April 11, 2013

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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.

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Ebooks made up 23 percent of US publisher sales in 2012, says the AAP — Ebooks accounted for nearly a quarter of the U.S. trade book business in 2012, according to statistics released Thursday by the Association of American Publishers. The ebook industry appears to be maturing, however …

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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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Eric Mark Do / MediaShift:

Toronto Star Tests Monthly E-Book Subscriptions — The Toronto Star is testing the e-book market with a dedicated subscription model. Launched in November 2012, Star Dispatches is the brainchild of the Toronto Star's marketing department. The Star already has more than 20 titles …

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Confirms Ned Brody Has Resigned As Head Of AOL Networks, CEO Armstrong Takes Over In The Interim [Memo] — Some turmoil in the management ranks at AOL, with Yahoo, apparently, hoping to profit as part of its ongoing hiring spree. AOL (which owns TechCrunch) has confirmed to us that Ned Brody …

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Jim Romenesko:

Missing the good old days when Pulitzer finalists were leaked — I responded: “I think the demise of the old E&P, which was obsessed with the prizes, has a lot to do with it.” Joe Strupp used to do a great job getting judges to leak the finalists to Editor & Publisher.

Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:

String of Executive Departures Leaves a Leadership Vacuum at the Top of Tumblr — Late Tuesday night, while most of New York City was “afk” enjoying the balmy weather, Tumblr CEO David Karp snuck a post onto the staff blog paying tribute to Storyboard—a team of journalists and editors assigned to …

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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

IMDb Wins Lawsuit Against Actress Suing Over Age Revelation — Huong Hoang sued IMDb after her age was revealed, which she says cost her jobs in an entertainment industry where perception matters. — On Thursday, a jury in Seattle handed a loss to Huong Hoang, the actress suing IMDb for revealing her age.

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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

‘The Bible’ on Fox News Channel? It almost happened — News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, right, wanted the miniseries “The Bible” for the Fox News Channel. (The Bible/Lightworkers Media and Hearst Entertainment/Rupert Murdoch/Associated Press / April 10, 2013)

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Sue Marek / FierceWireless:

Verizon CEO: 50% of our wireless traffic is video — LAS VEGAS—Video accounts for 50 percent of Verizon Wireless' (NYSE:VZ) network traffic today and by 2017 the carrier estimates video will make up two-thirds of all traffic over the network. Speaking at the National Association …

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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

Sinclair Broadcast Group Adds Station Heft With Fisher Communications Buy … Sinclair Broadcast Group is adding some large-market heft to its station holdings with a $373.3 million deal to acquire Seattle-based Fisher Communications. — The cash buyout will give Sinclair …

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Kelly Faircloth / Betabeat:

Yup, Looks Like It's Mostly Overworked Bloggers Who Use Google Reader — As part of its quest to build the perfect Google Reader replacement, Digg is surveying 17,000 people about how they used the service. With 8,000 responses already in, Digg has released some insight into what they've found.

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