Mediagazer: Social Media Pose New Riddle for CIA (Wall Street Journal)

4:15 AM ET, May 19, 2013

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Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr — According to sources close to the situation, the Yahoo board plans to meet Sunday night to decide whether to approve a $1.1 billion all-cash offer for New York-based blogging site Tumblr.

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

Yahoo to hold press event Monday as Tumblr buyout rumors swirl (update) — CNBC is reporting that Yahoo will hold a “product-related” news event this Monday in New York City. None other than CEO Marissa Mayer will be speaking at the event. Exactly what Yahoo plans to announce hasn't yet been disclosed …

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Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:
Report: Facebook and Microsoft flirting with Tumblr too

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Wall Street Journal:

Social Media Pose New Riddle for CIA — Effective spycraft has long called for cover—a job, family or routine that would keep a government agent from drawing undue attention. Now, that calculation extends to spies' use of social media. — Only in the past few years …

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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Why Hearst Wants in on Google Glass — Google Glass has already gotten a reputation as a geek-guy thing, but Hearst doesn't think that's going to be the case in the long run. — The publisher is the first magazine to have a Google Glass app. Elle will join The New York Times …

Todd Spangler / Variety:

CNN Peeks at Google Glass with News Alerts App … CNN is the first TV network to tinker with Google Glass, the Internet giant's wireless wearable apparatus — which, depending on your perspective, is a stupid-looking gimmick rife with potential to violate people's privacy or the next huge thing in personal tech.

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Andrew Romano / The Daily Beast:

Why You're Addicted to TV — The Revolution is being televised. Anyone who enjoys even the most casual relationship with a television set is probably aware that How We Watch TV has been changing in recent years. “Binge watching,” as scores of breathless critics have christened it …

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

Jon Karl got played by a confidential source and now ABC News has a big Benghazi problem — “His colleagues at other news organizations know it. His friends at the network, were they real friends, would try to talk him out of this disastrous state of denial.”

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John Cook / Gawker:

(Update) We Are Raising $200,000 to Buy and Publish the Rob Ford Crack Tape — As you may have heard, Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, smokes crack cocaine. We've seen a video of him smoking crack cocaine, and the people who have the video would like to sell it. Through the miracle of crowdfunding, you can help.

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Times Site Is Attacked by Hackers — The New York Times Company was a victim of online attacks earlier this week that slowed down The New York Times Web site and limited access to articles and other types of content. — According to Danielle Rhoades Ha, a company spokeswoman …

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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

‘Bloodbath’ Day at Village Voice: Musto, Sietsema, Feingold Out — Last week, top editors at the Village Voice resigned in protest when they learned that management wanted them to lay off several members of their already-decimated staff. This morning, those layoffs came down. They're not pretty.

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service — Sources say iRadio is still mired in licensing talks and may not be ready for WWDC — Google's long-rumored Play Music All Access service is already out the door, while Apple's iRadio is still bogged down in licensing talks.

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Journalism.co.uk:

Tech City News announces ‘transatlantic tech news alliance’ — Tech City News, which launched in January and reports on the technology sector in London, has announced a “transatlantic tech news alliance”, partnering with Silicon Valley-based Venture Beat and Berlin's Venture Village.

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Bloomberg Names Former IBM CEO Palmisano to Advise on Data Privacy — Here's an interesting development in the ongoing data-privacy imbroglio over at Bloomberg LP. The company just named former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano as an independent adviser with the task of reviewing and recommending changes on privacy and data policies.