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Ronald Grover / Reuters:
A Fox-Time Warner deal would give Murdoch new heft in China — (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's plan to buy Time Warner would help the Twenty-First Century Fox chairman make larger inroads in China, a fast-growing market that media moguls are finding hard to crack.
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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Time Warner board changes bylaws to block small group of shareholders from forcing Fox takeover vote
Time Warner board changes bylaws to block small group of shareholders from forcing Fox takeover vote
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Al Jazeera English:
Shots fired into Al Jazeera's office in Gaza, a day after Israeli FM said Israel will work to close down the network. — Shots fired into Al Jazeera's office in Gaza, a day after Israeli FM said Israel will work to close down the network. — Gunshots have been fired into Al Jazeera's bureau …
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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
Time.com's bounce rate down 15 percentage points since adopting continuous scroll — Three major news website redesigns this year look very different but have an important feature in common: articles that seamlessly transition to new content, without requiring readers to click or tap headlines and then wait for new pages to load.
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@juliaryan, @chartbeat and @miamabanta
Loek Essers / Techworld:
Dutch court rules ebook reseller Tom Kabinet can stay open, says reselling not akin to piracy — Dutch courts lets ebook reseller stay online … Dutch publishers have failed in their efforts to immediately close down ebook reselling site Tom Kabinet. — The Amsterdam District Court ruled Monday …
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Robert Channick / Los Angeles Times:
Tribune newspapers worth $635 million, analyst says — With Tribune Publishing set to spin off from Tribune Co. on Aug. 4, analysts have begun weighing in as to what the stand-alone, publicly traded newspaper company may be worth. — In a report issued Thursday by CRT Capital Group …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post Heightens Wonk Wars With Storyline — NEW YORK — The Washington Post escalated the wonk wars Tuesday with the latest addition to the growing field of policy journalism. — The Post's new online vertical, Storyline, will cover policy topics through articles, videos and charts …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC Worldwide chief receives £231,000 bonus despite fall in profits — Tim Davie says commercial division's revenues were ‘broadly flat’ if factors such as Lonely Planet sale are taken into account — The BBC Worldwide chief executive was paid a bonus of more than £230,000 last year …
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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Netflix Passes 50M Subscribers As It Reports Better Than Expected Q2 Revenue Of $1.34B — This afternoon following the closing bell, Netflix announced the financial results of its second quarter, including revenue of $1.34 billion and earnings per share of $1.15.
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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 …
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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Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:
The Russian Public Has a Totally Different Understanding of What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 — And it's more of a problem than you think. — Did you know Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from Amsterdam? Did you know that, for some darkly inexplicable reason …
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Forbes strategy: terrible for journalism and the public, decent for the bottom line — How Forbes got to $475 million — That's what a Hong Kong investor has agreed to pay for a firm that two years ago had trouble paying its rent — Integrated Whale Media Investments of Hong Kong …
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