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Uber investigating its New York general manager, Josh Mohrer, for tracking BuzzFeed journalist's location without her consent — Uber Is Investigating Its Top New York Executive For Privacy Violations — Uber said Tuesday that it is investigating its top New York executive for tracking …
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Ashton Kutcher, here's what's wrong with Uber ‘digging up dirt’ on journalists — ‘Here comes the part where journalist explain why they should be exempt from ridicule and judgment’. Well, no — As an investor in Uber, it's no surprise that Ashton Kutcher is unhappy with some of the coverage of the company in recent days.
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The Hill, Boing Boing and The Next Web
Maya Kosoff / Business Insider:
Uber investor Ashton Kutcher defends digging into “shady” journalists' private lives — Ashton Kutcher Defends Uber Against ‘Shady Journalist’ — One day after Uber's SVP of business suggested his company spend millions of dollars hiring people to investigate the private lives …
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Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Uber allegedly tracked journalist with internal tool called ‘God View’
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Boing Boing, Talking Points Memo, @jake_k, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed and Storify
Nitasha Tiku / Gawker:
Ten good questions Travis Kalanick failed to address in his tweetstorm apology
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New York Times, Jezebel, bookforum.com, @johnpaczkowski, BuzzFeed, @nitashatiku, PandoDaily, Slate, Washington Post, @rohit_x_ and @janedavis
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube's Refusal to Remove 20,000 Songs Leads to New Irving Azoff Warning — The standoff involves works by Pharrell Williams and other popular songwriters — YouTube has apparently made the decision not to immediately remove songs composed by popular musicians including The Eagles …
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RAIN News, Bloomberg, Music Week, New York Times, Mashable, Stereogum and Wall Street Journal
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
ABC and SBS funding to be cut by $308m over five years — Malcolm Turnbull says the Coalition's budget cuts to the public broadcasters should not affect what Australians see and hear — The budgets of the ABC and the SBS will lose almost $308m over five years, but it should not affect …
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Malcolm Turnbull MP
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Wall Street Journal:
Nielsen to Measure Netflix Viewing — Effort Is Meant to Help Content Owners Gauge Impact of Licensing Shows — Even as Netflix Inc. and other streaming-video providers have expanded to reach 40% of American homes, they have largely remained black boxes.
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Former Huffington Post M.E. Jimmy Soni lands gig at New York Observer — Jimmy Soni's departure several months ago from The Huffington Post, after having risen quickly through the ranks there from serving as Arianna Huffington's chief of staff to becoming the site's powerful …
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FishbowlNY and Gawker
Paul Carsten / Reuters:
China says controls on Internet needed to maintain stability — Chinese officials called on Wednesday for controls on the Internet to preserve stability, saying its model for cyberspace regulation can be the framework for spawning commercial successes like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd .
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Wall Street Journal, BBC, ZDNet, Reuters, Associated Press, Quartz, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, Phys.org, Amnesty International and NDTV News
Jennifer Maloney / Wall Street Journal:
Scribner's Magazine to Be Reincarnated as Literary Website — Scribner's Magazine, a literary journal that rivaled Harper's Monthly and the Atlantic Monthly from 1887 until 1939, is being reincarnated as a new literary website launching Wednesday. — The new project is called Scribner Magazine.
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@sarahw
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Xiaomi And Shunwei Capital Make $300M Strategic Investment In iQiyi, One Of China's Largest Online Video Platforms — Xiaomi, which announced earlier this month that it plans to invest $1 billion in online video content, has been very busy spending that money.
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VentureBeat
Paul Carsten / Reuters:
China's internet TV sites in $1 billion battle for foreign shows — (Reuters) - China's big internet-TV companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on foreign TV shows and films in a battle to attract users and advertisers, but risk bumping up against regulators protecting the domestic TV and film industry.
Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land:
Google News Displaying “Suggested For You” Stories Customized To Match Your Interests — Google News founder Krishna Bharat used his Google+ account to announce a new “Suggested for you” feature in Google News. — According to his post, Google News will now include a “Suggested for you” …
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The Next Web and Search Engine Roundtable
Sachin Kamdar / Mediashift:
If Publishers Are Going to Harness Data, We Need One Language — The following is a guest post. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. Almost three years ago I wrote an article about “Why Publishers Are About to Go Data Crazy.” This prediction came true, but the degree that publishers have gone …
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