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Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
Twitter beats Q4 revenue expectations with $479M, nets just 4M new monthly users — Twitter's users are still growing at a slow rate, but its revenue is booming. — Today, Twitter reported fourth quarter earnings for 2014, with revenue of $479 million on non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of $0.12.
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Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Google's slippery slope: If search giant pays Twitter for content, should it pay all publishers? — Toward the end of Bloomberg's story about a potential deal between Google and Twitter to display tweets in search results, this bit at the end made me sit up:
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@jboorstin, @libbyj and @jeffjarvis
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business:
Twitter Reaches Deal to Show Tweets in Google Search Results — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc. has struck a deal with Google Inc. to make its 140-character updates more searchable online. — In the first half of this year, tweets will start to be visible …
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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
In wake of hack, Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy Pascal to step down — Amy Pascal to Step Down From Top Sony Post — Amid the fallout of the ever-widening Sony hacking crisis, Amy Pascal will step down from her post as co-chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
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Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
Amy Pascal Launching Sony-Based Production Venture After Exit
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Pilot Tells Jake Tapper: Brian Williams Helicopter Did Take Fire — After speaking to CNN for an online article earlier in the day, helicopter pilot Rich Krell confirmed in an interview with The Lead's Jake Tapper Thursday afternoon that the chopper carrying Brian Williams in 2003 …
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Al Tompkins / Poynter:
The various versions of the RPG hit helicopter story as told by Brian Williams over 12 years — Veterans force NBC's Brian Williams to apologize — NBC News anchor Brian Williams said on NBC Nightly News Wednesday he made a mistake when he said on the air last week that he had been in a …
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TVNewser, The Daily Caller, Variety, CNN, Poynter, USA Today, Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, TVNewser, Washington Post, @atompkins and @poynter
Travis J. Tritten / Stars & Stripes:
NBC's Brian Williams apologizes for false story about being shot down by enemy fire in Iraq after soldiers protest
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John Herrman / The Awl:
Media companies are turning to apps and services instead of the traditional web for distribution — The Next Internet Is TV — I was talking to someone who works at one of those half-dozen or so apps that we tend to associate with teenagers: the ones that were built around some novel concept …
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JeeYeon Park / CNBC:
Pandora plunges more than 20% after missing estimates with $268M in revenue — Pandora plunges nearly 20% on revenue miss — Pandora plunged sharply after the music streaming company on Thursday reported quarterly revenue that missed Wall Street expectations and weaker-than-expected sales outlook.
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Business Wire, Mashable and GeekWire
Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
FCC's vague general conduct rule against harming consumers could be a loophole — The FCC's net neutrality proposal is awesome, but has a loophole — Credit: Gigaom illustration adapted from Shutterstock — Credit: Gigaom illustration adapted from Shutterstock
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
ISPs, wireless carriers, and Washington insiders react to FCC's net neutrality proposal
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Pew Research Center:
Majority of investigative journalists believe the US has collected their phone, email, or online data — Investigative Journalists and Digital Security — Perceptions of Vulnerability and Changes in Behavior — About two-thirds of investigative journalists surveyed (64%) …
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Poynter, Journalism.org, @pewjournalism, @pewresearch, IRE.org, @digiphile, @jesseholcomb, @davidherzog and FishbowlNY
The Verge:
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo takes personal responsibility for company's troll problem, vows stronger action against harrassment — Twitter CEO: ‘We suck at dealing with abuse’ — Dick Costolo says trolls are costing Twitter users — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is taking personal responsibility …
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Michael Wolff / GQ:
A look at the candidates for Guardian top editor: Janine Gibson, Katharine Viner, Emily Bell, and Ian Katz — The poisoned chalice: who will succeed Alan Rusbridger? — Having transformed his paper from Fleet Street also-ran to international white knight (and money pit), Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger is stepping down.
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Gregory Ferenstein / VentureBeat:
Wearable World incubator acquires tech blog ReadWrite — VentureBeat has learned that Say Media has sold the technology blog ReadWrite to Silicon Valley-based incubator Wearable World for an undisclosed amount. — We reached out to Wearable World CEO Redg Snodgrass, and he confirmed that our sources were correct.
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Eva Holland / Longreads Blog:
How Ta-Nehisi Coates built the best comment section on the internet—and why it can't last. — Ta-Nehisi Coates started blogging for The Atlantic on August 4, 2008. His first post was titled “Sullivan... McArdle... Fallows... Coates???” and it laid down his terms from the start: “My only rule, really, is simple,” he wrote.
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Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed's plans to join Snapchat's Discover news feature fell apart over creative differences — Why The BuzzFeed-Snapchat Discover Deal Fell Through — When Snapchat last month debuted its Discover feature — a new section within the app that shows articles and videos from a range of media companies …
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