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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Yahoo reports mixed Q4 with mobile revenue of $254M, up from $200M previous quarter; total revenue of $1.18B — Yahoo Reports Mixed Q4 With Mobile Revenue Of $254M, Total Top Line Of $1.18B — Today Yahoo reported its fourth-quarter financial performance, including revenue excluding …
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo to Spin Off Rest of Alibaba Stake as Expected — Yahoo said it would spin off the rest of its stake in China's Alibaba Group today. It said the transaction will result in two independent public companies:
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Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Snapchat's new Discover feature puts news and entertainment a swipe away from your stories — Snapchat has launched “Discover,” a new feature that highlights stories and videos provided both by outside publishers and by Snapchat's in-house team of journalists and videographers.
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Joshua Topolsky / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Business launches, integrating Bloomberg News, Businessweek, and Bloomberg TV — Welcome to Bloomberg Business — Smarter. Faster. — Don't Miss Out — We're excited to finally share a project that thousands of journalists, developers, photographers, videographers …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say — How the language police are perverting liberalism. — Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say — How the language police are perverting liberalism. — Around 2 a.m. on December 12, four students approached the apartment of Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student …
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Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Japan Turns to ‘I Am Kenji’ Facebook Page on Hostage Crisis — TOKYO (AP) — The plight of freelance journalist Kenji Goto, taken captive by Islamic State group militants, has gripped Japan, and the people's hopes for his safety are now on Facebook with a simple, unifying plea: “I am Kenji.”
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Justin McCurry / Guardian:
Hopes raised for release of Japanese journalist held by Isis
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Jinen Kamdar / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter starts rolling out group Direct Messaging, 30-second video capture and sharing — Now on Twitter: group Direct Messages and mobile video camera — A few months ago, we mentioned some features coming soon, and today we're excited to start rolling out two of them: group messaging and a new mobile video experience.
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Village Voice Owner Ponders M&A Options — Voice Media Group, owner of 11 alternative weeklies including the Village Voice, said Tuesday it was exploring “new strategies” including the possible sale of its publications or acquisition of other titles. — The company said it had hired merger …
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Five journalists killed when gunmen ambush convoy in South Sudan — Five journalists were killed on Sunday when unidentified gunmen ambushed an official convoy in South Sudan's Western Bahr al Ghazal state, according to local journalists and news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns …
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Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
Meet ‘Reveal,’ the show that could be ‘60 Minutes’ for our century — What might “60 Minutes” be like if it were launching in 2015? — It might look—or really sound—a lot like “Reveal.” You may have bumped into “Reveal,” a first-of-its-kind regular radio investigative-journalism show …
Leslie T Chang / Guardian:
The news website that's keeping press freedom alive in Egypt — Mada Masr was formed just before military coup of 2013. Amid growing censorship, its staff have risked their lives to continue reporting. Can they stay true to their mission? — On the afternoon of 17 June 2013 …
Richard Leider / YouTube Engineering …:
YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video instead of Flash — YouTube now defaults to HTML5 — Four years ago, we wrote about YouTube's early support for the HTML5 <video> tag and how it performed compared to Flash. At the time, there were limitations that held it back from becoming our preferred platform for video delivery.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
In response to missteps, Boston.com tweaks its editing approach — By any editor's standards, Jan. 14 was a difficult day for the staff of Boston.com. The night before, the outlet published an article which wondered whether anyone would notice had House Speaker John Boehner been poisoned by a bartender.
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