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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Why Apple Is Betting Big on Beats: Hardware for Now, Streaming for Later  —  Apple is set to make the biggest purchase in its history: A $3 billion-plus deal for Beats, the company that sells high-end headphones and recently launched a streaming music service.
David Gelles / New York Times:
Apple Said to Be in Talks to Buy Rising Music Brand for $3.2 Billion  —  Apple is in discussions to buy Beats Electronics, the company behind the popular Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, for $3.2 billion, according to people briefed on the talks, in what would be the biggest acquisition in Apple's history.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Books offset newspaper losses at News Corp posting 14% revenue increase, e-book revs up 46%  —  News Corp. is bullish on books  —  Books continue to be a bright spot for News Corp., which has been struggling with lower ad revenues at its core newspaper assets.
Discussion: Variety
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Hachette Says Amazon Is Delaying Delivery of Some Books  —  Amazon has begun discouraging customers from buying books by Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Colbert, J. D. Salinger and other popular writers, a flexing of its muscle as a battle with a publisher spills into the open.
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
U.S. Journalist Adam Baron Deported From Yemen  —  NEW YORK — Adam Baron, a freelance journalist reporting from Yemen the past three years, has been deported from the country.  —  Baron regularly writes for the McClatchy newspaper chain and the Christian Science Monitor.
Dave Lee / BBC:
UK ISPs agree to begin sending out warnings to customers who pirate content from next year  —  Deal to combat piracy in UK with ‘alerts’ is imminent  —  The agreement has been more than four years in the making  —  BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media will send “educational” letters to customers believed to be downloading illegally.
David Gelles / New York Times:
Omnicon-Publicis $35B mega-merger called off due to internal differences and regulatory issues  —  Ad Agency Giants Said to Call Off $35 Billion Merger  —  Omnicom Group and Publicis have called off their $35 billion merger, bringing a premature end to a deal that would have created …
Luke Westaway / CNET:
Netflix price hike is $1 extra per month, £1 in UK and €1 in Europe  —  The new, higher price only affects new subscribers, the streaming service says, with existing Netflix customers exempt from paying extra for two years.  —  Netflix  —  Netflix has issued the first details …
Sam Biddle / Valleywag:
Goodbye to Katie Cotton, the Queen of Evil Tech PR  —  After 18 years of spin, Katie Cotton, Apple's magnetically ruthless vice president of worldwide corporate communications, has left her job, and tributes from the tech press are pouring in.  What no one will admit is that we were all afraid of her.
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Dan Lyons / Inbound Hub:
Three Lessons from Katie Cotton, Apple's Departing PR Boss
Discussion: @tcarmody
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo, News Distribution Network deal stalled, next video target could be YouTube network Fullscreen  —  Yahoo Deal to Buy NDN Video Service Stalls — So What's Its Next Video Target?  —  According to sources close to the situation, the $350 million deal for Yahoo to buy online-video service News Distribution Network has stalled.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The late Michael Hastings' last book is his debut novel  —  Advance copies of Michael Hastings' last, posthumous book are beginning to land in newsrooms.  —  The novel, titled The Last Magazine and based on Hastings' experiences as a young magazine journalist in the mid-aughts …
Discussion: Pressing Issues
Amir Efrati / The Information:
Comcast Plots Big Push in Web Video Ads  —  As debate over Comcast's control of Internet and TV in American households plays out in front of regulators reviewing its bid for Time Warner Cable, the cable industry leader is quietly planning a major foray into the Web advertising business.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
New York Times completes ‘innovation report’ led by Sulzberger scion  —  Back in July, New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson announced that Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, a metro reporter and the son of Times chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., would “take a leave from metro …
Discussion: @mathewi and @justinnxt
Todd Spangler / Variety:
E! Harvests Instagram for Celeb-Photo Tracker on TV, Online  —  NBCUniversal pop-culture network E! is grabbing photos and videos celebrities post to Facebook's Instagram, with a feature for its website and on-air news show ranking the top 200 stars in real time.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Johnston Press plans £360m refinancing as Sky takes stake in ad deal  —  BSkyB to supply AdSmart product while investing £5m in publishing company, giving broadcaster 1.6% stake in it  —  Johnston Press has unveiled plans for a £360m refinancing package that will slash its huge debt burden by more than a third.
Michael Kranish / The Boston Globe:
Facebook's push of “related articles” to users without checking credibility draws fire  —  A surprise awaited Facebook users who recently clicked on a link to read a story about Michelle Obama's encounter with a 10-year-old girl whose father was jobless.  —  Facebook responded to the click …
Discussion: @kegill, Thanks:@steverubel
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Time Warner to Spin Off Time Inc. on May 8  —  Publishing Unit Will Pay Time Warner $800 Million for U.K. Publisher IPC Media  —  Time Warner has set a date for the spin-off of its Time Inc. publishing unit: May 23.  —  The date came in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday …
Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:
Dish aims to launch Web TV service by year's end  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dish says it plans to launch its Internet-delivered TV service by year's end on mobile devices, game consoles and smart TVs for about $20 to $30 a month.  It will contain live sports, entertainment and children's programming.
Discussion: Forbes and Hollywood Reporter
John McDermott / Digiday:
Why media buyers are still wary of Tumblr ads  —  It's been nearly a year since Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion, and slightly longer since Tumblr first rolled out its version of native ads.  And yet despite the headlines roused by that deal and the platform's continued growth …
Discussion: @karenmcgrane
Paul Bonanos / Billboard:
Spotify Removed from Shazam by Deezer in the UK, Germany, Mexico and Brazil  —  Music-identification app Shazam has added on-demand streaming service Deezer as a partner, enabling Deezer account holders in four countries to listen to full-length songs immediately upon identifying them with Shazam's mobile app.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
New US policy bans national-security employees from citing news reports based on leaks  —  Obama Policy Bans Employee Use of Leaked Material  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is clamping down on a technique that government officials have long used to join in public discussions …
Chris Hall / Pocket-lint:
Sony Reader Store to close on 16 June, Kobo to supply Reader and Xperia device content  —  Kobo has confirmed that it will be supplying the content for Sony Reader and some Sony Xperia devices following the closure of the Sony Reader Store on 16 June.  —  Access to Kobo's platform will be enabled …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube Global Creator-Development Lead Bing Chen Resigns  —  Exec's departure for stealth startup comes after appointment of new YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki  —  Bing Chen, YouTube's global creator development and management lead, is leaving the Google-owned video powerhouse for an unidentified stealth startup.
Discussion: BING CHEN
 
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Joseph Checkler / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: New York Times, Bloomberg and Reuters
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
For Online Video Publishers, a New Tack on Luring Ad Dollars
Discussion: @iab
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Reporter offered pre-IPO shares by Arista Networks, considers it another sign of a tech bubble
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Another FCC commissioner asks Tom Wheeler to delay net neutrality vote
Discussion: Businessweek and Washington Post
Maggie Michael / Associated Press:
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Publishing takes full ownership of MCT news services
Discussion: Poynter
J.J. Colao / Forbes:
With 18 pending patents, Aereo's options in the case of a Supreme Court defeat are open
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