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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
German publishers grudgingly allow Google to display news snippets in search results without compensation — German Publishers Bow To Google's Market Power In Ongoing Text Snippets Fight — A tug of war between Google and German publishers over how online news content is displayed …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Comcast 3Q Net Income Soars Nearly 50% On Tax Adjustment, NBCU Results — Cable and entertainment giant Comcast saw its third-quarter net income soar nearly 50%, thanks to a favorable tax adjustment and improving performance at its NBCUniversal unit. The Philadelphia company …
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
New York Times staffers band together over buyout anxiety — A group of New York Times employees acted en masse to request packages detailing the buyout packages they would qualify for if they applied for them in a round of buyouts announced by the newspaper earlier this fall, several employees confirmed to Capital.
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The Daily Caller, @edmundlee, Talking New Media, Talking Points Memo, FishbowlNY, MediaWire Daily, New York Post and @meena_thiru
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Broadcasters win preliminary injunction against Aereo — (Reuters) - A New York federal judge on Thursday officially barred embattled video streaming company Aereo, Inc from transmitting the programs of television broadcasters as they are being shown. — The ruling was another major win …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
FBI warns media: Journalists ‘desirable targets’ for ISIL — The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a bulletin to reporters on Thursday warning that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant had identified reporters and media personalities as “desirable targets” for retribution attacks against the United States.
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@sheeraf, @dylanbyers, @reddingwriting and @jbenton
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
CBS News readies 24-hour ‘CBSN’ digital network — CBS News 24-hour digital news channel will be called CBSN, Capital has learned, and the network is preparing to launch a marketing campaign around it, a source told Capital, featuring the tagline “CBS News. Always On.”
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Wall Street Journal, TVNewser, Variety and @alexweprin
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo's new home page, rolling out next month, emphasizes mail, video, and big-name content — Wanna See the Latest New Yahoo Home Page, Rolling Out Next Month? Bokay! — I have been a little lax in lifting interesting tidbits out of Yahoo for some months now, mostly because it felt …
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@karaswisher and @jasonabbruzzese
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
WikiLeaks now has a commercial arm with licensing deals around the world. — If you buy what someone stands for — intellectually, philosophically or culturally — does this mean you will also buy them literally? Their taste, their tchotchkes, their likeness?
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@christianstork, @marcos_moret, @nytfashion, @eyezeeellis and @michaelroston
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Pandora Q3 earnings beat estimates, revenue of $239.6M, despite slower listener growth — Pandora Q3 profit climbs, despite slower listener growth — The Web's biggest streaming-music service delivers a respectable increase in profit, sales and its expectations for both to come.
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Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
Amazon misses with loss of $0.95/share, reports 20% higher YoY Q3 revenues of $20.58B — Amazon misses estimates — Amazon reported quarterly earnings and revenue that missed analysts' expectations on Thursday. — The company posted third-quarter a loss of 95 cents per share …
Jihii Jolly / Columbia Journalism Review:
How censorship aggravates the challenges of following and verifying news of Hong Kong protests — What's happening in Hong Kong? — The difficult task of verifying news when a country censors just about everything — “What kind of Communists are these people?!” exclaimed Jon Stewart …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Why The New York Times built a tool for crowdsourced time travel — Flipping through old magazine and newspaper ads is like throwing the switch on the world's simplest time machine. Suddenly it's 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts have just made the round trip from the moon, Abbey Road just dropped …
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@niemanlab and @jayrosen_nyu
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Some publishers investing in tech to build their own communities outside of Facebook/Twitter — Publishers cool on outsourcing community to Facebook — Publishers today are at the mercy of the big social networks. The likes of Facebook and Twitter have not only dominated publishers' referral traffic …
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@digiday and TechCrunch
Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Microsoft ending free Xbox Music streaming Dec. 1; Music Pass still available for $9.99/month — Microsoft is ending free Xbox Music streaming — You'll need to purchase a subscription to stream songs — Microsoft is closing its free Xbox Music streaming service effective December 1st.
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