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Michael Reckhow / Facebook Media:
Facebook launches Instant Articles on iPhone, with interactive features like videos and maps, names NYT, BuzzFeed, Guardian, and six other partners — Introducing Instant Articles — As more people get their news on mobile devices, we want to make the experience faster and richer on Facebook.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Facebook's Instant Articles, which can provide 100% ad revenue and analytics data, add up to a good deal to publishers, at least for now — Facebook Starts Publishing the New York Times, BuzzFeed and More With Its ‘Instant Articles’ Program — Hey Web publishers! Facebook is coming in peace.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Instant Articles build on insights from its Paper app, load 10x faster than mobile web articles — Facebook Starts Hosting Publishers' “Instant Articles” — After months of rumors, Facebook today unveiled “Instant Articles”, a program that natively hosts publishers' content …
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Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Facebook Instant Articles: A Slippery Slope For Google To Do The Same, Hurting The Web? — Facebook's pitch to host publisher content sounds great for improving user experience. But if Google follows in doing the same thing, it might not so great for the web.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Tim Armstrong says AOL to remain in content business, denies spin-off of Huffington Post, says TechCrunch won't be sold and will retain editorial independence — CEO Tim Armstrong Says AOL Is Staying In The Content Business (And He's Not Selling TechCrunch) — It was an interesting day at AOL.
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Brendan Sasso / National Journal:
Privacy advocates fear AOL's ad technologies will allow Verizon to better track users across devices — Verizon's AOL Deal Could Lead to New Privacy Problems — AOL's advertising technologies could help Verizon better track users across devices. — Verizon's $4.4 billion purchase …
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MediaPost, New York Times, Business Insider and Bloomberg View
BuzzFeed:
Sources say Verizon has no plans to spin off AOL's editorial properties including TechCrunch and Engadget, with Huffington Post's future less certain — Verizon Likely To Retain TechCrunch And Engadget — Sources say Verizon has no plans to spin off the tech blogs once the $4.4 billon acquisition is approved.
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Forbes, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Variety and FishbowlNY
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Although Tim Armstrong's vague memo emphasized content and touted new opportunities, Verizon deal is about ad-tech and arose from few options for AOL
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Sources: AOL in talks to spin off HuffPost, primarily with Axel Springer, at a valuation over $1B
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Douglas Martin / New York Times:
William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ Dies at 92 — William Zinsser, a writer, editor and teacher whose book “On Writing Well” sold more than 1.5 million copies by employing his own literary craftsmanship to urge clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan.
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Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Exclusive: Cablevision to drop $1 bid for NY Daily News - source — It was one dollar too much for Cablevision Systems Corp (CVC.N). The cable company is planning to pull out of the auction process for the New York Daily News after spending hundreds of hours analyzing a potential deal, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Jack Bouboushian / Courthouse News Service:
Disney, CBS Win Battle with FCC Over Disclosure — (CN) - The FCC cannot expedite the public disclosure of contracts and documents relevant to its review of the proposed AT&T-DirecTV merger, the D.C. Circuit ruled. — The Federal Communications Commission is tasked with reviewing merger proposals …
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Press Gazette:
Prince Charles ‘black spider’ memos published today following Guardian's ten-year FoI battle — Secret letters sent by the Prince of Wales (pictured, Reuters) to government ministers will be published today following a ruling by the UK's highest court. — Charles' correspondence with ministers …
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Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Labour advisor claims Conservative officials threatened BBC executives with far-reaching reforms if election coverage didn't “fall into line” — Tory officials threatened BBC during election, says Miliband's strategist — Tom Baldwin says senior BBC executives faced repeated threats …
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@harryslaststand and @ashrouen
Reuters:
Alibaba, Wanda heads' investment firms lead $129 mln fundraising in LeTV sports firm — May 13 Wanda Group's Wang Jianlin and an investment firm founded by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's Jack Ma took part in a 800 million yuan ($129 million) funding round for a little-known sports entertainment company backed by local tech firm LeTV.
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
ESPN President John Skipper on Bill Simmons: “It Was Business” — The chatter at ESPN's upfront presentation Tuesday morning centered on Bill Simmons, conspicuously absent since ESPN president John Skipper abruptly announced Friday that he would not renew Simmons' contract.
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