Mediagazer: Boxee acquired by Samsung, reports peg sale at $30 million (Dante D'Orazio/The Verge)

10:35 PM ET, July 3, 2013

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Nitasha Tiku / Gawker:

Rupert Murdoch Caught on Tape: “We Will Hit Back” — ExaroNews a British investigative web site, has just published the full transcript of a secretly recorded meeting between media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the staff of The Sun, a U.K. tabloid owned by News Corp., in which Murdoch admitted …

Discussion: exaronews.com/feed/latest, Columbia Journalism Review, Guardian, The Independent, The Wrap, Variety, pressgazette.co.uk and @ryanchittum

Andy Davies / Channel 4:

Revealed: the Rupert Murdoch tape — “Incompetent” cops, regrets over his own investigation, promises to protect Sun journalists: a secret recording reveals Rupert Murdoch's real attitudes to the scandal that has engulfed his empire. — Watch Channel 4 News from 7pm to hear the audio recording

Discussion: Deadline.com, @arusbridger, BBC, Financial Times, The Drum, The Huffington Post, @blakehounshell, @edgecliffe, @lisaocarroll, UK News and Opinion, Telegraph, @exaronews and New York Magazine

english.ahram.org.eg:

Islamic TV channels off air, police arrest crews — The Muslim Brotherhood-owned television channel Misr 25 went off air along with several other Islamist-run channels, including the controversial Hafez and Al-Nas, shortly after the military statement announcing the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi.

Discussion: @eldahshan, @antderosa, @rt_com, @aymanm and @ajelive

RT:

Al Jazeera, other TV stations forced off air in Egypt — Al Jazeera's Egyptian broadcast has been taken off the air. Both Reuters and Al Jazeera itself reported that security forces raided Cairo offices and detained at least five staff members. — Karim El-Assiuti has told Reuters …

Discussion: Al Jazeera Blogs, Committee to Protect …, Mediaite, @ranialmalky, @aymanm, @marquardta, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, @anblanx and @mlcalderone

Yasmine Saleh / Reuters:
Egyptian army secures state TV studios: sources

Discussion: @shadihamid, @acarvin, @aliabunimah, Variety, @bgittleson, @haseebmaudoodi, @3bdulr, @acarvin, @msentropy, The Independent, The Dawn News, Reuters and @skytwitius

Jim Romenesko:

Patch editor: ‘From what I see on the ground, we are on our last legs’ — I've received a few emails in recent days from Patch people unhappy with Patch 2.0. One was from a former manager who said “I can speak to morale issues, tone deaf management and why the new website could be the final straw …

Eric Deggans / Poynter:

Snowden's leaks force media self-examination — Besides forcing government and national-security institutions to face the public about their spying efforts, Edward Snowden's decision to release information on America's massive public surveillance efforts has thrown another system into a flurry of self-examination:

Discussion: Mediashift and Adweek

Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:

Do you use Reddit?: Six percent of American adults online do — Reddit is the self-proclaimed front page of the Internet — a community of people who submit links and vote them up or down based on their quality, novelty or general ability to generate amusement. — But does Reddit really have enough users to make that claim?

Discussion: TechCrunch, Poynter, Fast Company, WebProNews, The Atlantic Online, Betabeat and Nieman Journalism Lab

Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:
Meet Reddit's New Director of Communications

Discussion: SocialTimes and FishbowlDC

Jay Rosen / Quote and Comment:

CNN makes its priorities clear. — A trial like the Zimmerman case in Florida is like a TV mini-series in which the writers and actors don't get paid. Meanwhile, epochal world events - the kind CNN is supposed to dominate the coverage of - unfold in a little box on the lower right.

Discussion: Politico, Mediaite, Erik Wemple, Gawker, Business Insider, @huffpostmedia, @thestalwart, @sdkstl, @rafat and @howardkurtz

The Huffington Post:
Morsi Overthrow Coverage: Networks Finally Go Wall-To-Wall For Egyptian President's Ouster

Discussion: TVNewser, UPROXX, @brianstelter, FishbowlDC, @jeremyscahill and @huffpostmedia

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Acquires Xobni for Upward of $30 Million (Like ATD Said, Part 2) — Yahoo said it has bought Xobni, as AllThingsD had previously reported it was planning to do. — According to numerous sources close to the company, Yahoo paid $30 million to $40 million for the maker of address book apps and plugins.

Discussion: The Smartr & Xobni Blog, Xobni Support, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Guardian, TechCrunch, PE Hub Blog, Los Angeles Times, ZDNet, Engadget, The Register, GeekWire, SocialTimes, Pocket-lint, Mashable, Digits, App Advice, WebProNews and VatorNews

GlobalPost:

Postmedia Q3 loss surges to $112.2 million on impairment charge, lower revenues — TORONTO - Postmedia Network Canada Corp. says it lost $112.2 million in its latest quarter on a $93.9-million impairment charge and a drop in revenue. — The media company, which owns several newspapers including …

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

No Quid Pro Quo by You're the Boss Writer, but Intrigue, Anyway — Ed Zitron may not be the savviest public relations person around. When he e-mailed a New York Times business editor, he asked for the strictest anonymity about his complaint: that a writer for the You're the Boss small-business blog …

Discussion: @sulliview and Talking Biz News

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Boxee acquired by Samsung, reports peg sale at $30 million — Boxee, a relatively small company known for its set-top box that streams media to TVs, has been purchased by Samsung for roughly $30 million. The news comes out of Israeli site The Marker, though Boxee CEO Avner Ronen has declined to comment on the rumor.

Discussion: NYT Bits, TechCrunch, The Wrap, Mashable, AdAge, Betabeat, ZDNet, AppleInsider, BGR, Variety, Engadget, WebProNews and AllThingsD

Reuters:

Perform Group buys sports data company Opta — (Reuters) - Perform is raising 120 million pounds ($182 million) in a share sale to fund the purchase of sports data supplier Opta and future deals, the digital rights company said on Wednesday. — Perform is paying up to 47 million pounds for Opta …

Discussion: Guardian and Financial News