Mediagazer: Why The Proxy Battle To Dismantle Yahoo's Board Probably Won't Work (Linette Lopez/Business Insider)

10:45 PM ET, June 24, 2013

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NYT publishes deleted story after BuzzFeed reporter reconstructs it — The odd tale of a story about women who corresponded with former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner that the New York Times published, then deleted earlier this month got odder Monday: BuzzFeed reporter Andrew Kaczynski pieced a version of it together from Google searches.

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

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Linette Lopez / Business Insider:

Why The Proxy Battle To Dismantle Yahoo's Board Probably Won't Work — Two massive pension funds are getting together to wage a proxy battle that would completely wipe out and rebuild Yahoo's Board of Directors at the company's meeting tomorrow, but it's time to get real — they probably won't get what they want.

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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

Demand Media acquires e-commerce marketplace for $94 million — (Reuters) - Demand Media, the owner of content websites eHow, Livestrong and Cracked, said on Monday it had acquired the e-commerce marketplace Society6 for $94 million in cash and stock as the company diversifies its business model.

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The Huffington Post:

Phone Hacking Scandal Reportedly Went Far Beyond Media — LONDON (AP) — The phone hacking scandal rocking Britain extends well beyond the media industry to include law firms, debt collectors and other companies, a newspaper said Saturday. — The scandal has already sent shockwaves across …

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Tom Harper / The Independent:
Pressure grows on Lord Leveson to explain why he ignored hacking beyond the press

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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:

WikiLeaks Spokesperson Says Group May Publish Snowden's Remaining Material — “I can't go into any details.” — WASHINGTON — A WikiLeaks spokesperson opened the possibility Monday that the group could publish the rest of Edward Snowden's National Security Agency documents when reached by phone on Monday.

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