Mediagazer: U.K. Group Rallies Musicians, Writers and Performers to Fight Government Cuts (Richard Smirke/Billboard)

8:40 AM ET, August 30, 2014

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Vice set to raise another $250M from TCV for 10% stake; will end up with one of A&E's channels — Big Moves for Shane Smith: Vice Media Is Set to Raise $500 Million and Get Its Own Cable Channel — Cable TV viewers have had a chance to watch Shane Smith and his Vice Media reporters …

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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

A&E Networks agrees to pay $250M for a 10% share of Vice Media, valuing it at $2.5B — A&E Networks Buying Minority Stake in Vice Media — The deal for 10 percent of the digital media company would value it at $2.5 billion — A&E Networks has agreed to pay $250 million …

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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:

Time Warner Ends Negotiations to Buy Stake in Vice Media — Time Warner has ended negotiations to buy a major stake in Vice Media, according to a person briefed on the discussions. — The two companies started talking in June about the possibility of a joint venture.

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Leo Kelion / BBC:

Flickr gaining 14M historic images extracted from 2M public domain books in Internet Archive — 2.6m historic pictures posted online — The project has resulted in even more pictures of cats being put on to the internet — An American academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historic copyright-free images.

Discussion: Flickr Blog, Internet Archive Blogs, @carlmalamud, PetaPixel, @digiphile, Techdirt, Boing Boing, Ars Technica and GalleyCat

Eric Enge / Search Engine Land:

It's Over: The Rise & Fall Of Google Authorship For Search Results — After three years the great Google Authorship experiment has come to an end ... at least for now. — Today John Mueller of Google Webmaster Tools announced in a Google+ post that Google will stop showing authorship results …

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Ethan / My heart's in Accra:

Self-segregation on social networks and the implications for the Ferguson, MO story — Michael Brown was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson on Saturday August 9, 2014. After his body lay in the hot street for four hours, Ferguson residents took to the streets to protest his killing.

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

An inside look at Apple's media strategy, its earlier control-obsessed regime, and the transformation with the departure of Jobs disciple Katie Cotton — Seeing Through the Illusion: Understanding Apple's Mastery of the Media — “Beautifully, unapologetically plastic.”

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Richard Smirke / Billboard:

U.K. Group Rallies Musicians, Writers and Performers to Fight Government Cuts — Newly formed U.K. protest group Artists' Assembly Against Austerity are calling on musicians, writers, artists and performers to voice their opposition against government cuts in public and voluntary services.

Aaron Gell / Business Insider:

Meet The Publisher Who Ditched Amazon And Is Selling More Books Than Ever — Ask Randall White, the 72-year-old CEO of the Educational Development Corp., an Oklahoma-based book distributor, why he decided pull his company's 2,000 titles — including the acclaimed potty bestiary “Everyone Poops” …

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Aereo Tells Judge It Can Beat Lawsuit Despite Supreme Court Ruling — The digital company also renews a challenge to the irreparable harm faced by TV broadcasters — On Friday, Aereo filed its opposition to an injunction demanded by television broadcasters.

Discussion: Techdirt and BetaBoston

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

A year after getting acquired, Viki is looking to expand, starting with Bollywood — Viki wants to expand to around 40 content genres from around the world, and it's starting with Bollywood movies. — Global TV and movie streaming service Viki wants to bring Bollywood to the world.

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Hot playlist-focused music service 8tracks raises $1.28M — Streaming music service 8tracks has secured $1.28 million in new funding, according to an SEC Form D filed today. — 8tracks' service plays handpicked playlists featuring mainstream artists as well as any track from Soundcloud …

Discussion: @davidporter, Digital Music News, RAIN News, vbprofiles.com and hypebot