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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
As The Public Markets Beckon, Streaming Startup Spotify Reveals 40M Users, 10M Paid Users — As the music streaming market continues to heat up, Spotify has released new user numbers today that solidify its position at the front of the pack: it has now passed 40 million active users …
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Spotify: five big challenges looming for the streaming music service — Winning over artists, going mainstream, turning a profit, facing big-tech competition and (perhaps) going beyond music — Spotify announced today that it now has 10m paying subscribers and 40m active users …
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Bloom.fm assets to be sold off after streaming startup couldn't find a buyer
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Complete Music Update, hypebot, The Next Web and Music Week
Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
First Look Media to launch site investigating corruption — Speaking at the London Social Media Summit, Andy Carvin of First Look Media announced the outlet's plans to launch a new investigative site led by former Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi. First Look Media is to launch …
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@zimbalist
Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
Google Sued Over Conspiracy Theory That It Defrauded Thousands Of Publishers Of Ad Money — Google has been sued over allegations that it suddenly and without explanation withholds ad money from web site publishers once their sites become successful. The lawsuit, filed by Hagens Berman …
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TechCrunch, Business Wire, redOrbit, CNET, Search Engine Roundtable and LawFuel
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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Google cheated ad partners, says lawsuit, but case points to dirty tricks campaign
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opptrends, WebProNews and Courthouse News Service
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Netflix launching in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, and Luxembourg this year — Netflix to launch in six European countries this year — (Reuters) - Netflix Inc will launch its online movie and TV subscription service later this year in France, Germany and four other European countries …
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Netflix, Engadget, TheStreet.com, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, New York Times, CNET, BGR, MacStories, BBC, The Next Web, Gigaom and The Verge
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Orhan Coskun / Reuters:
Turkey says Twitter to be sensitive on court orders, to set up live support: official — (Reuters) - Twitter will be more sensitive in responding to Turkish court orders calling for content to be removed from the site, and will open a live customer support service in Turkish to address complaints …
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@mathewi
Jordyn Taylor / Betabeat:
NYU freshman John Meyer launches Fresco, curation news app, to compete with Circa — 19-Year-Old Tech Pro Wants to Revolutionize News, Will Drop Out of School If Necessary — John Meyer isn't sure if he'll go back to school in the fall. Currently finishing up his freshman year …
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@thestalwart and @johnhmeyer123
Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
Thai military bans 14 tv channels, 3,000 radio stations, and tries to prohibit interviews — Thai Military Tries to Break Political Deadlock as Foes Meet — BANGKOK — A day after imposing martial law, the Thai military on Wednesday put leaders of the country's polarized political camps …
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
AOL is looking to personalise readers' experiences on its publishing sites without collecting personal information — AOL is looking to personalise readers' experiences on its publishing sites without collecting personal information — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...
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@antoniospadaro and @maymann
Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
Why Future's future shouldn't just be about advertising — Future, Advertising, Consumer Media, Digital Media, Mobile — If you were (or are) running a magazine publisher today, would you really bet the farm on advertising? — That appears to be what David Hepworth, writing in the Guardian …
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Guardian, Thanks:@mediabrief
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Condé Nast Traveler to relaunch as publishing platform Aug. 18 with 25 outside contributors — Why Condé Nast Traveler is taking the platform approach — Increasingly, traditional publishers are finding that the easiest way to build audience scale is by opening up their sites to outside contributors.
Liliana Bounegru / Harvard Business Review:
What Data Journalists Need to Do Differently — The role of the data journalist has increased dramatically over the last decade.The past few months have seen the launch of several high-profile “data journalism” or “explanatory journalism” websites in the U.S. and the UK …
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@icijorg
Tom Meagher / Source:
Project Thunderdome went open source during shutdown, its developers wish they had sooner — LESSONS FROM THE PROJECT THUNDERDOME SHUTDOWN — The Scramble to Open Source and What You Can Do To Help — Nearly every time the data team at Project Thunderdome prepared to launch an interactive graphic, a
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@source and @dfmthunderdome
Andrew Flanagan / Billboard:
Vimeo to Launch Music Copyright ID System (Exclusive) — Vimeo, the hosting site popular with video artists of all stripes and which uses the motto “upload your own work,” will be implementing a system they're calling Copyright Match, intended to prevent music copyright infringement on the site.
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SlashGear and The Next Web
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Greenwald: Washington Post ‘suppressed’ foreign countries under NSA eavesdropping program — It's been a couple of months since the Washington Post published a scoop on the extraordinary overseas eavesdropping capabilities of the U.S. government. Under the bylines of Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani …
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@20committee, Lawfare, ABC News, The Intercept and International Business Times
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
OwnLocal acquires Whoosh Traffic to save dying local newspaper business — Austin-based OwnLocal thinks it can save local newspapers from extinction. — The company promises to help newspapers make money from the web without dumping a ton of resources into an online publication.
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OwnLocal and Austin Business Journal
Gulf News:
Researcher predicts traditional newspapers in the UAE will become extinct by 2028 — Researcher predicts traditional newspapers in the UAE will become extinct by 2028 — Dubai: Traditional newspapers in the UAE are predicted to be on the verge of extinction by the year 2028 …
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Gulf News, Al Arabiya, Khaleej Times, Al Bawaba, Emirates 24/7, Emirates 24/7 and Khaleej Times
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Reuters ‘left the little guys to take the rap,’ editor of Thai publication says — At one point, the relationship between Reuters and the English-language Thai news site Phuketwan was pretty good, Phuketwan Editor Alan Morison said in a phone call with Poynter.
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@poynter
Dade Hayes / Broadcasting & Cable:
Al Jazeera America CEO and President Say Net is On Course — Al Shihabi and O'Brian see long runway ahead for fledgling network — In a rare public appearance following the August 2013 launch of Al Jazeera America, the network's CEO and president affirmed its strategy during …
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TVNewser
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Better Business Bureau Tells Taboola To Make ‘Sponsored Content’ Disclosures More Prominent — The tech company Taboola, which distributes advertiser-sponsored content online, has agreed to make its disclosures more noticeable, the Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division said on Tuesday.
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AdAge, Thanks:@steverubel
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Samsung confirms acqui-hire of Shelby.tv team — The team of New York-based video discovery startup Shelby.tv is indeed heading to Samsung: A Samsung spokesperson confirmed the acquihire Wednesday, sending us the following statement via email: … Gigaom first reported on Tuesday that Samsung was acqui-hiring Shelby.tv.
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Digital TV Europe
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Adds Shazam-Style Audio Recognition To Help You Automatically Tag Posts With TV Shows And Songs — Facebook has a new weapon in the battle against Twitter to host lucrative conversations about media. A Shazam-esque opt-in feature coming to the iOS and Android status composer …
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