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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Outbrain plans IPO valued at $1 billion for 2014 - reports — Outbrain, the biggest of the content engines that help publishers serve suggested stories and ads, will reportedly seek $200 million from Wall Street in 2014. — Outbrain, a startup that helps publishers like CNN and USA Today serve ads …
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AllThingsD, Globes Online, eMedia Vitals, The Times of Israel and Shalom Life Canada
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Amidst IPO Rumors, Outbrain Hires Its First CFO, Jeff Davison — Content discovery service Outbrain is announcing that it has hired Jeff Davison as its chief financial officer. — The news comes about a day after multiple reports from Israel (where Outbrain has offices and its technical team …
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MarketWatch
Markham Nolan:
News needs to go Netflix — The way we buy news is a ridiculous bundling mess. The news needs to go Netflix. — I don't buy weekday newspapers now, that change happened years ago, because no one newspaper is going to have all the news I want to read. Simple fact. Buying one paper means a lot of redundancy.
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eMedia Vitals, @martinsfp and Monday Note
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Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg:
Netflix Added to Virgin Media U.K. TV in Industry First — Netflix Inc. (NFLX)'s subscription-video service will be offered on Virgin Media cable systems in the U.K., marking the first time the Web-delivered product is integrated by a major pay-TV provider.
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BBC, GigaOM, Multichannel News, Guardian, Engadget, Pocket-lint, The Verge, Broadband TV News, seenit.co.uk, Compare Mobile Phones …, Home Media Magazine and Variety
Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
House bill aims to prevent broadcast TV blackouts — Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) proposed draft legislation on Monday aimed at ensuring that cable TV customers don't lose access to their local broadcast stations. — The discussion draft is a response to the month-long blackout of CBS stations …
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Broadcasting & Cable and @mquintos
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
FCC and Verizon square off for the future of net neutrality
FCC and Verizon square off for the future of net neutrality
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Hillicon Valley, Broadcasting & Cable, Broadcasting & Cable, VentureBeat, CNET, @reckless, Reuters and PC Advisor
Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:
Broadband Streams New Courtroom Drama
Jason Leopold / Al Jazeera America:
FBI continues to investigate Hastings for ‘controversial reporting’ … The FBI released a heavily redacted document on Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings, Monday, which revealed the law-enforcement agency is continuing to investigate what it characterized as “controversial reporting” …
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@saramorrison, @jasonleopold, @jaredbkeller, @bmaz, @jasonleopold, @goddamnedbear, @dangillmor, @barryeisler, @onekade, @antderosa and @dellcam
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
The New Yorker Goes Native — In January, when the Atlantic ran sponsored content on behalf of Scientology, the media world went apoplectic. Last month, when the New Yorker began experimenting with sponsored content, no one made a peep. Times have changed.
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@digiday, @nbj914 and @zimbalist, Thanks:@steverubel
Richard Pendry / Columbia Journalism Review:
In Syria, freelancer demand amidst increasing restrictions — New outlets are happy to reap the rewards of dangerous reporting, so long as freelancers shoulder all responsibility — News organizations are desperate for Damascus-based reporters, so they are calling on freelancers, stretching their own rules against doing so.
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Columbia Journalism Review, @mlcalderone and @kavitharao
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Vimeo On Demand gets rent and own pricing options, preorders, promo code generator, and more advanced stats — Vimeo today announced a big update to Vimeo On Demand (VOD), its direct distribution platform. The new features include rent and own pricing options, preorder availability via …
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PR Newswire and Engadget
Tom Kulaga / INMA:
New York Times partners with BlackBerry to market new DealBook — BlackBerry 10 DealBook sponsorship creatively gets the brand and its new product to its target, C-level audience. — Faced with the most critical product and marketing juncture in its history, Research in Motion (RIM) …
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@munkjournalism
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
Twitter moves closer to IPO by buying mobile ad start-up MoPub — SAN FRANCISCO — Ahead of the most anticipated initial public stock offering since Facebook, Twitter bought mobile advertising exchange MoPub, its largest acquisition to date. The deal was part of Twitter's ongoing effort …
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blog.twitter.com, TechCrunch, USA Today, New Statesman, Reuters, Bloomberg, Guardian, NYT Bits, TechWeekEurope UK, Computerworld, AdAge, The Drum, Forbes, San Francisco Chronicle, ZDNet and VentureBeat
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Harder Edge From Vanity Fair Chafes Some Big Hollywood Stars — For years, the relationship between Vanity Fair and Hollywood was like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: the magazine gave the movie business class and Hollywood gave Vanity Fair sex. — But even the best relationships can hit a rough patch.
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FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post
Press Gazette:
New Statesman agrees content-sharing deal with The New Republic — Left of centre political weekly New Statesman has signed a content-sharing deal with US magazine The New Republic. — Under the deal, New Statesman will carry three pieces from The New Republic each week - and vice versa.
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The New Republic and @nbj914
Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Univision, Al Jazeera Anchors Slam Obama After Being Left Out of Media Blitz (Updated) — Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and Al Jazeera English senior political analyst Marwan Bishara lashed out after their networks were left out of President Obama's media blitz, writing that the president …
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Speakeasy, Politico, TVNewser, Deadline.com, Al Jazeera English, Mediaite and The Huffington Post
Edirin Oputu / Columbia Journalism Review:
PolicyMic is making user contributions just as important as a writer's original content — Even more interactive news — PolicyMic is making user contributions just as important as a writer's original content — Clickable. Shareable. Likeable. Social media increasingly drives …
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@brianpindc
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Livefyre Acquires Storify, Says The Social Curation Service Will Still Operate As Standalone Product — Livefyre, a commenting platform used by TechCrunch and other websites, is announcing that it has acquired social curation startup Storify. — The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed …