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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 can provide 100% of the ad revenue and analytics data to publishers, add up to a good deal, 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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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.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Why Facebook is starting a new partnership with 9 news publishers — Right now you're probably reading this story on CNNMoney, but someday you could be reading it within Facebook's app. — On Wednesday, Facebook will start letting a select number of news organizations publish stories directly to the social media site.
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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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Business Insider and ZDNet
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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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
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
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Q&A with NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet on the highs and lows of his first year, wall between news and ad departments, and anonymous sources — One Year Later, 11 Questions for Dean Baquet — Talk about a tumultuous 12 months. — A year ago, Jill Abramson was still the executive editor of The Times.
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Guardian:
Trinity Mirror's UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d thought to be facing axe as jobs set to go — Digital media brands set to be sacrificed with staff roles in UK expected to be lost ahead of company's expansion in North America — Trinity Mirror is understood to be preparing to close digital media brands UsVsTh3m …
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Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest:
McClatchy Reorganizes, Adding National Revenue and Video Teams, While Putting New Accent on Data Management — While redesigning all of its newspapers and digital products, The McClatchy Co. is also in the midst of a major corporate overhaul. NetNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp examines …
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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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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
SoundCloud localizes for Brazil, its first non-English market, and hires Facebook head to monetize music — SoundCloud is finally making its audio-streaming service more accessible to non-English speakers, with the news that it's localizing its platform for Brazilian Portuguese.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
AT&T to offer Hulu to its customers through its websites and mobile apps later this year to drive Hulu subscriptions — AT&T Will Begin Offering Hulu To Its Customers Later This Year — Hulu and AT&T announced an expanded deal today designed to bring the video streaming service …
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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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