Mediagazer: Will streaming music services ever make money? 2014 may tell (Joan E. Solsman/CNET)

7:15 AM ET, January 1, 2014

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Mossberg and Swisher relaunch as Re/Code — It's styled as and in a message to the anxiously awaiting crowds who wanted to see what Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher did with AllThingsD when they migrated the franchise from The Wall Street Journal to NBC, they tell us: “While we think tech news is important …

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Samer Al-Atrush / Agence France Presse:

Egypt holds Jazeera crew on ‘terror’ accusations — Cairo (AFP) - Egypt has accused detained journalists from the Qatari-based Al-Jazeera television network of belonging to a “terrorist” group, saying they had ties with the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood, the prosecution said Tuesday.

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Susan Stellin / New York Times:

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Paul Vitello / New York Times:

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

UK entertainment spending rises with surge in film and music streaming — Value of film and TV downloads, streams and subscriptions rises to £621m, and number of tracks streamed doubles to 7.4bn — After five years of decline, sales of entertainment products such as music …

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Jonathan Krim / Wall Street Journal:

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Stuart Jeffries / Guardian:

Netflix's Ted Sarandos: the ‘evil genius’ behind a TV revolution — Allowing subscribers to binge on TV series has made Netflix into a global brand. But company boss Ted Sarandos isn't stopping there: by moving into making shows, he wants to change what we watch as well as how we watch it

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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Will streaming music services ever make money? 2014 may tell — You'd be forgiven if you thought streaming music was the hottest business to be in right now. — At every turn in 2013, tech companies big and small were pouring into online music services.

Timothy Pratt / New York Times:

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Doug Roberson / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

AP photographer dies after Chick-fil-A Bowl — Sponsored Links — Associated Press photographer Dave Martin died of “an apparent heart attack” after collapsing at the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Tuesday, according to Georgia Dome officials. — Martin, based out of Montgomery, Ala. …

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