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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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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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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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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Advisory Council to Google on the Right to be Forgotten publishes final report and suggestions — Google Faces Fight In Europe On Search Delisting — Google's digital policy pantomime on the theme of Europe's so-called ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ (rtbf) ruling has delivered its final conclusions …
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New York Times:
Recent Sony hack sparks industry discussion about changes to MPAA, including refurbishing/selling DC HQ, expanding membership to digital and TV — After Sony Hacking, the M.P.A.A. Considers Major Changes — LOS ANGELES — Fissures revealed by the hacking at Sony Pictures Entertainment …
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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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JeeYeon Park / CNBC:
Pandora plunges more than 20% after missing estimates with $268M in revenue — Pandora plunges more than 20% on revenue miss — Pandora plunged sharply after the music streaming company on Thursday reported quarterly revenue that widely missed expectations as mobile advertising growth slowed.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Family of journalist Austin Tice, kidnapped in Syria in 2012, launches #freeaustintice campaign and pushes for reforms to US hostage policy — Family of journalist missing in Syria campaigns anew for his return — WASHINGTON — With blindfolds to symbolize the plight of captives …
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James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:
Postmedia cuts national writer jobs, offers newsroom buyouts — Postmedia Network Canada Corp. has cut the jobs of several national writers and offered voluntary buyouts to newsroom staff at the Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen and Windsor Star. — Employees learned of the latest round …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Nielsen Pitching New ‘Tweets Per Impression’ Metric to Entertainment Marketers — SAN DIEGO-Nielsen has begun engaging movie studios and TV networks on a new metric-tweets per impression-that gauges the social impact of entertainment marketing efforts. — Erika Faust, VP of client services …
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Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
Gina Rinehart accuses Fairfax management of having ‘no plan’ and sells her 15% stake — Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has sold her 15 per cent stake in Fairfax Media, ending her association with the publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and accusing them of having ‘no plan’ to revitalise the publisher.
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Yuvraj Gurung / Tech in Asia:
NewsHunt, India's news reader app for local languages, raises $40.5M in funding — India's homegrown news reader app NewsHunt has secured INR 2.5 billion (US$40.5 million) in a series C funding round led by New York-based hedge fund Falcon Edge Capital. Existing investors Matrix Partners India …
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