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Amazon and HBO Ink Exclusive Multi-Year Deal to Bring Award-Winning HBO Programming to Prime Members — For the first time ever, favorite HBO series like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Big Love, Eastbound & Down, Oz, Band of Brothers and Deadwood, as well as early seasons …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Amazon Makes a Big Move, Snags Older HBO Shows for Web Streaming — You still can't get new HBO shows, like this season's “Game of Thrones,” without paying for TV. — But starting in May, you'll be able to get some of the premium cable channel's older stuff online — via an Amazon Prime subscription.
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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Justices test Aereo on copyright issue but raise concern about harming cloud services — The Supreme Court will decide the fate of Aereo, an Internet start-up that's frightening the TV industry with an old-school technology: the antenna. Technology reporter Cecilia Kang …
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
The Right (And Wrong) Way To Think About How Aereo Works
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Andy Coulson: I quit David Cameron role due to phone-hacking coverage — Prime minister's former spin doctor tells court of the reasons for his resignations from No 10 and the News of the World — Andy Coulson resigned as David Cameron's spin doctor in January 2011 because his ability …
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Andy Coulson denies ‘covering up’ phone hacking at News of the World
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Andy Coulson denies bullying NoW's “single rogue reporter”, Clive Goodman, who hacked phones
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James Ball / Guardian:
The Upshot, Vox and FiveThirtyEight: data journalism's golden age, or TMI? — A New York Times site completes the trio started by Nate Silver and Ezra Klein. Maybe it's all a little too much information — An interactive feature on The Upshot presents five different rival models of the 2014 Senate race.
Yuras Karmanau / Associated Press:
Pro-Russian insurgents in Ukraine confirm they're holding Vice's Simon Ostrovsky captive — Pro-Russian Insurgents Hold Journalist Captive — DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Pro-Russian gunmen in eastern Ukraine admitted on Wednesday that they are holding an American journalist who has not been seen since early Tuesday.
Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
Quentin Tarantino's Gawker Lawsuit Dismissed But Can Be Refiled — A judge grants the website's motion to dismiss the suit over the leaked “Hateful Eight” script because the director “failed to adequately plead facts establishing direct infringement” by people who clicked on the link.
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
NBC turnaround and Winter Olympics help lift Comcast earnings — Comcast's first-quarter profit increases 30% from a year earlier to $1.87 billion. The cable giant's revenue soars 14% to $17.41 billion. — The Olympic Rings are silhouetted as fireworks light up the sky during …
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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Fan TV's Streaming Set-Top Box Will Soon Be Available To Time Warner Cable Subscribers
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Close to Subscriber Deal With Charter Communications
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Gannett's broadcast revenue soars, circulation revenue slips — Revenue from broadcasting in Gannett's first quarter just about doubled over the same period a year earlier, the company announced in an earnings report Wednesday. Gannett attributed the 99.5 percent rise in broadcast revenue …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
AOL Launches Free Streaming Movies in Pact with Miramax — AOL is now playing in the movie biz. — The Internet media company inked a deal with Miramax to deliver a selection of its full-length films to U.S. users, available to watch for free (with ads) across a range of devices.
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Cotton Delo / AdAge:
Tumblr Study Says It Has More Social TV Activity Than Twitter — Study Looks at 11-Day Window to Compare Chatter — Slide from Pulsar study on Tumblr + TV — Twitter got its ad business off the ground by selling marketers on the premise that its service complements TV, and now it appears that Tumblr is treading a similar path.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Megaupload Sues Hong Kong Over Unlawful Shutdown — Well over two years have passed since Megaupload was taken offline, and the U.S. Government still hasn't found a way to serve the Hong Kong based company. — During all this time the Hong Kong authorities have kept Megaupload's assets locked up …
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Daniel Beekman / NY Daily News:
Judge rules journalist must turn over information about NYPD whistleblowers to city — Manhattan Federal Judge Robert Sweet found that Graham Rayman provide some documents from his communication with cop Adrian Schoolcraft, but he does have to provide everything the city subpoenaed.
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Francesca Bacardi / Variety:
Facebook Exec Says Oculus Rift May Expand Into Movies — USC professor Jonathan Taplin and Cory Ondrejka, Facebook's VP of mobile engineering, addressed the future of mobile technology, specifically with regard to Facebook, in the keynote presentation at Tuesday's Hollywood IT Summit, held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Sleazy tabloid links have taken over the web — but their days may be numbered — Sleazy tabloid links have taken over the web — but their days may be numbered — Reading news online over the past year, I came to realize that more or less every story now includes a beautiful woman.
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@jake_k and The Huffington Post
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