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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Comcast agrees with Obama on net neutrality, except for the legal bit — You have to admire the chutzpah: a day after President Obama jolted the telecom industry with a bold announcement on net neutrality, Comcast declared that it agrees with him. — Comcast agrees with Obama on net neutrality …
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David L. Cohen / Comcast Voices:
Being for net neutrality and against Title II is completely consistent — Surprise! We Agree with the President's Principles on Net Neutrality: Reiterating Our Strong Support for the Open Internet — Yesterday, the President outlined his plan for a free and open Internet.
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Wall Street Journal:
Investors in Cable Deal Fret Over Talk of Broadband Regulation — Share Prices Fall Following Obama's Call for New Rules — President Barack Obama's call Monday for expanded broadband regulation added to mounting investor angst over the fate of Comcast Corp. 's $45 billion planned acquisition of Time Warner Cable Inc.
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@chillmage, New York Times, Talking Biz News and USA Today
Daniel Ek / Spotify Blog:
Spotify has paid music industry $2B to date, $1B since last year; has 12.5M paying subscribers; top artists to exceed $6M/year in payments — $2 Billion and Counting — Taylor Swift is absolutely right: music is art, art has real value, and artists deserve to be paid for it.
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Chief Defends Spotify After Snub by Taylor Swift — Spotify is the future. Spotify is the enemy. Spotify doesn't pay enough. Spotify is music's best bet for revenue growth. — Since it arrived in the United States from Sweden in 2011, Spotify has been cast as both hero and villain …
Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
Reuters TV aims to personalize news broadcasts — With Reuters TV, a smart video app for news junkies, Reuters is once again trying to establish itself as a consumer brand. — The news giant unveiled Reuters TV at a Monday night soiree in its Times Square headquarters.
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Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:
Reuters announces on-demand Reuters TV to launch in 2015
Reuters announces on-demand Reuters TV to launch in 2015
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Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Yahoo to Buy Video-Ad Service BrightRoll for $640 Million — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) is buying video-advertising service BrightRoll Inc. for about $640 million in cash, seeking to boost marketing tools amid a turnaround effort by Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer.
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Jonah Lehrer working on book about digital life … NEW YORK (AP) — Jonah Lehrer, the best-selling author whose career was derailed after he acknowledged fabricating Bob Dylan quotes, is collaborating on a book about virtual life. — Portfolio announced Tuesday that it had acquired …
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Bloomberg:
Will Ferrell's Funny Or Die Said to Consider Sale — Funny or Die, the comedy website founded by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy, hired a financial adviser to evaluate options including a possible sale, people with knowledge of the matter said. — The site is working …
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Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
Showtime, Starz Join Chromecast Lineup — Streaming Adapter Also Optimized For ‘Family-Friendly’ Games — Google's Chromecast streaming adapter plunged more into the TV Everywhere pool with optimizations for authenticated apps from two top premium programmers - Showtime and Starz.
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Google Chrome Blog, TechCrunch, Re/code, Gigaom and New York Times
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Bandcamp to help musicians launch their own subscription services — Artists will be able to set their own price, release exclusive songs and send messages to their keenest fans — Bandcamp launched in 2008 as a way for musicians to run their own online stores selling their music …
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Bill Mickey / Folio:
Penton Rebrands Itself as Information Services Business — Events, marketing services and digital are biggest revenue-makers. — Whatever happened to “publisher”? Across the market that term is being retired in favor of descriptors that refer to emerging lines of business that are quickly overtaking the print platform.