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1:45 PM ET, September 26, 2014

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Activist investor Starboard buys stake in Yahoo, urges Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to merge with AOL  —  Activist Shareholders Go After Yahoo, Tell Marissa Mayer To Buy AOL  —  Activist investor Starboard has sent a letter to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer urging her to combine Yahoo's business with AOL's.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Thom Yorke releases album via BitTorrent Bundle with free single and video, $6 album  —  BitTorrent adds paygate option to its direct-to-fan publishing platform Bundle, will take a 10% cut after fees  —  BitTorrent today announced it is adding a new paygate feature to BitTorrent Bundle …
Press Gazette:
Mirror publisher in £125k hacking payouts to Sven, Doctor Who actor, Beckham nanny and three others  —  Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson (pictured, Reuters) and actor Christopher Eccleston have settled their phone-hacking damages claims for £30,000 each.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vast Majority of Top Films, TV Shows Are Available Legally Online: Study  —  Hollywood is delivering more movies and TV shows via legal outlets than ever, although most titles are available for purchase or rental rather than subscription VOD.  —  As of December 2013, 94% of 808 top films analyzed …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Goodreads updates its iOS app with new home feed, streamlined navigation and improved shelving  —  Amazon's Goodreads App Finally Gets A Makeover  —  Goodreads, the social network for book lovers, has at last seen its first major update since Amazon bought the company last March.
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
One secret to the success of Quartz, BuzzFeed and Gawker: They look at news as a service  —  Most traditional media outlets are used to thinking of journalism or news as something they create and then distribute to a waiting audience — but seeing it as a product or service instead can change …
Craig Silverman / American Press Institute:
The best ways for publishers to build credibility through transparency  —  As so much in the world of news and information changes, the fundamental bond of trust between journalists and the communities they serve is one of the few things that doesn't.  In fact, its importance has grown.
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Syrian Activists Report From ISIS-Controlled City News Outlets Can't Reach  —  NEW YORK — Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi fled Raqqa, a city in north-central Syria, a few weeks ago, yet he remains a go-to source for news coming out of the de facto capital of the Islamic State.
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Dear News Corp & Google: An Open Letter On Their Open Letters To Each Other Over Competition  —  After media giant News Corp slings accusations at Google, the search & advertising giant pushes back.  A close-up on the claims.  —  Last week, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp sent an open letter …
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Digital radio sales fall to six-year low  —  Consecutive quarterly gowth in digital's share of listening comes to a halt despite cross-industry marketing campaign  —  ‘Smooth soul man’ D-Love in a BBC ad for digital radio  —  Digital radio sales have fallen to a six-year low …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
TV Networks Offering More On Demand to Reduce Ad-Skipping  —  CBS, Fox (FOXA) and the other TV broadcasters are delivering more shows on demand through pay-TV services to wean audiences off digital video recorders, which let viewers skip through commercials.  —  More ads mean more revenue for the TV industry.
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