Mediagazer: Penguin promises EU regulator to scrap Apple ebook deals (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

6:45 AM ET, July 25, 2013

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Google's TV — Google just demoted your television set into a second screen, a slave to your phone or tablet or laptop. With the $35 Chromecast you can with one click move anything you find on your internet-connected device — YouTube video, Netflix, a web page as well as music and pictures and soon …

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Google announces Chromecast, a dongle to stream online videos to your TV — Google just announced Chromecast, a TV dongle that lets you stream online videos straight from your phone, tablet or laptop to your TV. Chromecast is based on a stripped-down version of Chrome OS, and interoperable with a multitude of devices.

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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Penguin promises EU regulator to scrap Apple ebook deals — (Reuters) - EU regulators accepted on Thursday a pledge by British media group Pearson's Penguin unit to scrap its ebook deals with Apple which set price curbs on Amazon and other retailers, closing an antitrust case against the company.

Discussion: EU Press Room and Engadget

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

Journalist launches PicFair as marketplace to license images — The new platform is intended as a middle man between photographers and licence purchasers — Photographers await a shot of the royal baby, in this picture licensed through PicFair — PicFair, a platform giving anyone …

Discussion: The Next Web

Abraham Moussako / Columbia Journalism Review:

Q&A: James O'Shea — The former Tribune newsman discusses where the company has been, and where it's going — James O'Shea, former editor at the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, was close to the center of the successive storms at the Tribune company, from its ill-fated 2000 merger …

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Ted Johnson / Variety:

Time Warner Cable, DirecTV Ask FCC to Restrict Gannett's Deal for Belo — The American Cable Assn., Time Warner Cable and DirecTV are objecting to a part of Gannett's proposed $2.2 billion acquisition of Belo Corp.'s broadcast stations, saying that the deal threatens to drive up retransmission fees …

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Josh Stearns / Mediashift:

Propaganda? No. Bringing ‘Voice of America’ To America Is Good for Transparency — Fewer than half of Middle East residents think it's safe to express political opinions online, according to a study by sponsor Northwestern University in Qatar. Explore the data on this interactive site …

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Hoopla wants to be a free Netflix for library users — Hoopla wants to make borrowing material from a library as convenient as streaming content on the web. The company, launching to the public today after several months in beta, offers patrons of participating libraries access …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Jacob Soboroff leaves HuffPost Live; third host to depart in two months — HuffPost Live, The Huffington Post's ambitious online video network run by the site's founding editor, Roy Sekoff, has lost its third host in two months. — Jacob Soboroff, who's been with the online video network since …

San Francisco Chronicle:

KTVU producers fired over Asiana pilots' fake names — KTVU-TV has dismissed at least three veteran producers over the on-air gaffe involving the fake names of those Asiana airline pilots that became an instant YouTube hit - and a major embarrassment to the station.

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Eliza Brooke / TechCrunch:

Video Platform OpenWatch Aims To Support Global Citizen Journalism — OpenWatch, which presented at media startup accelerator Matter's NYC Demo Day today, wants to become a video platform for citizen journalism worldwide. Founded in November last year, the company is at the start …

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Deadline:

CBS, Time Warner Cable Extend Deadline In Distribution Dispute — The parties have set a new deadline of Monday at 5 PM Eastern to settle their dispute. CBS its stations would have go dark at 9 AM ET Thursday on Time Warner Cable systems in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas.

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Erin Griffith / PandoDaily:

Talk is cheap(er): iHeartRadio goes after podcast and talk radio market — iHeartRadio is an interesting beast. It was started as a digital experiment within terrestrial radio giant Clear Channel. John Hogan, the company's head of radio, once told me iHeartRadio was “not a business.”

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