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Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:
Sources: Comcast to drop proposed Time Warner Cable takeover deal after FCC staff recommends hearing; announcement as soon as Friday — Comcast Plans to Drop Time Warner Cable Deal — Comcast Corp. is planning to walk away from its proposed takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc. …
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Digidave:
Felix Salmon's report on the death of journalism as a career is greatly exaggerated — At Perugia this year Felix Salmon gave a talk: “The end of journalism as a career?” — In typical fashion, anytime a headline ends in a question mark the answer is almost always “no.”
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@cwarzel, @losowsky, @scottros, @mikeisaac, @jjhenning, @romenesko and @dlboardman
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Felix Salmon / Fusion:
Building a career in digital journalism still requires old-fashioned subject-matter expertise — Is there any such thing as a career in digital journalism? — One of my obsessions these days is the question of whether there's any such thing as a career in digital journalism.
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Bloomberg View, @jim_newell, @mikeisaac, @taylor_owen, @sulliview, @silvermanjacob, @caseyjohnston, @jackshafer, @siegel, @tomgara, @mikeisaac, @jbarro, @aubernalevy, @tylrfishr, @erikhinton, @sarahfkessler and @derekwillis
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon revenue up 15% YoY to $22.72B, posts net loss of $57M after $108M profit a year ago — Amazon Swings to Loss Despite Jump in Sales — E-commerce firm's cloud computing business posts revenue of $1.57 billion — Amazon.com Inc. finally revealed financial details …
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VentureBeat, Reuters, CNBC, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet and Business Insider
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook Hits 4 Billion Daily Video Views in Q1; Mobile Ad Revenue Grows 80% — Facebook posted revenue slightly below Wall Street expectations for the first quarter of 2015, but the social giant is still seeing solid growth — especially on the mobile and video front.
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New York Times, Fast Company, Facebook, TechCrunch, Forbes, Reuters, CNBC, SocialTimes, .rising, Benzinga, The Next Web, TechCrunch, The Wrap and VentureBeat
Shannon Bond / Financial Times:
US mobile advertising spending jumped 76% to $12.5B in 2014, makes up 25% of total internet ad revenues — Mobile advertising spend in US jumps 76% — Mobile advertising spending in the US jumped 76 per cent to $12.5bn last year, overtaking display ads to become the second-largest online ad format …
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IAB.net, @raju, MinOnline and Marketing Land
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Minda Smiley / The Drum:
US internet ad revenues reached an all-time high of $49.5bn last year
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Yelp wins dismissal of lawsuit over quality of its reviews — (Reuters) - Yelp Inc has won the dismissal of a lawsuit that claimed it deceived shareholders by overstating the authenticity and quality of consumer reviews on its website, and thereby enabled insiders to sell company stock at inflated prices.
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Law360
BBC:
BBC Three's online-only move postponed until 2016 while awaiting Trust's approval of proposals — BBC Three move ‘delayed until 2016’ — Plans to move BBC Three online have been delayed as the corporation waits for the BBC Trust to approve its proposals.
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broadcastnow.co.uk, Hollywood Reporter, mirror, FemaleFirst, Recombu, ATV Today, NME.COM and Variety
Jacob Harris / Medium:
A farewell note to The New York Times from Jacob Harris, a member of the interactive news team, with a 2006 story about pushing data analysis into the newsroom — Leaving the New York Times — I'm not a fan of burying the lede, so let me just get straight to the point.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, FishbowlNY, @emilybell, @derekwillis, @donohoe, @nytnickc, @derekwillis, @ofadam, @tessamuggeridge, @harrisj and @mathewi
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Channel 4 News launches 4NewsWall using animated GIFs — Standalone site on Tumblr, aimed at 16- to 34-year-olds, aims to recreate bulletin's ‘feisty spirit’ — Channel 4 News has launched a “4NewsWall” displaying stories using animated GIFs. — The standalone site is hosted on Tumblr …
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The Drum, Wired.co.uk and Digital Spy
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice, Disney, Vox, The Onion, and others partner with Facebook to develop sponsored videos — Facebook Lines Up 7 Branded-Content Video Partners Including Vice, Disney — Facebook teamed with seven media partners — including Vice Media, Disney's Oh My Disney digital division and Electus Digital …
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Facebook for Business, Mashable, SocialTimes, Marketing Land, Yahoo! Finance, @jasonabbruzzese and GeekWire
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Freelancer safety coalition has nearly tripled in 2 months — Since a group of news organizations signed onto a list of freelancer safety guidelines months ago, dozens more organizations have rallied to the cause. — The guidelines, which were released in February, set forth a list …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Hulu Scores More Exclusives With First-Ever Turner Deal — In its battle with Netflix and Amazon for streaming video marketshare, Hulu today announced its first-ever licensing agreement with Turner Broadcasting, which sees the streaming video service gaining exclusive subscription rights …
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Variety, Multichannel News, Adweek, Hulu Blog and The Verge
Michael Geist Blog:
The Great Canadian Copyright Giveaway: Why Copyright Term Extension for Sound Recordings Could Cost Consumers Millions — Randy Bachman, the well-known Canadian musician, found himself embroiled in a public fight with Prime Minister Stephen Harper last year when Harper used his song …
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Music Week and Intellectual Property Watch
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