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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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BuzzMachine, Talking New Media, Plagiarism Today, PC World, Search Engine Land, Silicon Republic, PerformanceIN, PandoDaily, @stkonrath, WebProNews, Techdirt and Gigaom
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Cable television is dying, but cable companies are thriving — Cable television is dying. But if you look at the earnings report Comcast released today, it's clear that cable companies are thriving nonetheless. — Over the past year, the company reports that it lost about 155,000 pay television customers.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Comcast 3Q Net Income Soars Nearly 50% On Tax Adjustment, NBCU Results
Comcast 3Q Net Income Soars Nearly 50% On Tax Adjustment, NBCU Results
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CNNMoney.com, New York Times, Reuters, New York Post, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Forbes, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Wrap, Deadline, Wall Street Journal and @xpangler
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
Dale Kasler / Sacramento Bee:
McClatchy Q3 posts $2.6M operating loss; total revenue down 3.3% to $277.66M — McClatchy reports loss in third quarter — The McClatchy Co., publisher of The Sacramento Bee, today reported a loss during the third quarter, reflecting the ongoing downturn in print advertising revenue.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
AMC Networks to Buy 49.9 Percent Stake in BBC America for $200 Million — BBC Worldwide has been looking to strengthen its channel in carriage talks with pay TV operators — AMC Networks has agreed to acquire a 49.9 percent stake in BBC Worldwide's BBC America for $200 million.
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Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, Deadline, Associated Press, Variety and AMC Networks Inc.
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 …
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Deadline, The Wrap, Bloomberg and Hollywood Reporter
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 …
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
Billboard:
Jimmy Iovine Talks Birth of Beats, ‘Cool’ Steve Jobs and Music's ‘Sterile’ Distribution Systems at Revolt Conference — Jimmy Iovine and Sean “Diddy” Combs attend the Revolt Music Conference at Fontainebleau Miami Beach on October 18, 2014 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Blloon ebook service for iOS starts in UK, first 1K pages free, then 500 pages at £3.99/month — Non-friction: Blloon brings a novel approach to e-book subscriptions — There's no shortage of apps to help you read on the move, and we've seen a real rise in recent times …
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Publishers Weekly
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, @eyezeeellis, @michaelroston, @marcos_moret and @nytfashion
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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Reuters and Tech Trader Daily
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