Mediagazer: As Spotify passes one year in Asia, piracy is still its number one challenge (Kaylene Hong/The Next Web)

6:25 AM ET, July 22, 2014

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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

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Robert Channick / Los Angeles Times:

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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

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Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

As Spotify passes one year in Asia, piracy is still its number one challenge — In April 2013, Spotify first entered Asia with its launches in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. Now it's been just slightly over a year since its move into the region, but Spotify seems to be taking it slow with its expansion plans.

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Why digital publishers want to be in the magazine business — There's a lot of positive talk about magazines these days — but, interestingly, it's coming from the digital likes of Yahoo, Say Media and Flipboard. — Backwards as it may sound, online “magazines” have become core …

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Lynn Oberlander / First Look Media:

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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

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Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:

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Committee to Protect Journalists:

Ukrainian reporter held for reporting in Russia without work permit — Russian authorities arrested Yevgeny Agarkov, a reporter with the Ukrainian television station 1+1, on July 18, 2014, and accused him of working in Russia without a proper accreditation, according to news reports.

New York Times:

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Dave Neal / Inquirer:

BBC websites and iPlayers suffer weekend broadcast outage — TELEVISION ON DEMAND viewers have complained loudly about downtime at the BBC's websites and on-demand offerings over the weekend. — This past weekend auntie Beeb took something of a holiday and prevented people from listening …

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Aereo had 77,596 subscribers across 10 cities at the end of 2013 — Here's How Many Subscribers Aereo Had Last Year — Aereo generated lots of attention from the media world in the run-up to its Supreme Court case this spring. — Consumers may have been less interested …

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