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5:35 AM ET, July 16, 2015

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Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:
Netflix supports Charter's Time Warner Cable merger after Charter pledges not to charge peering fees for content providers through 2018  —  Netflix to Support Charter Acquisition of Time Warner Cable … Netflix Inc. will support Charter Communications Inc.'s $55 billion acquisition …
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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Netflix Shares Spike 10% After The Company Reports 3.3M New Subs, Better-Than-Expected Q2 Profit  —  Netflix Shares Spike 10% After The Company Reports 3.3M New Subs, Better-Than-Expected Q2 Profit  —  Today following the bell, Netflix announced its second-quarter financial performance …
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Twitter's new preview cards could help publishers better highlight stories by providing extra room for art, video, and text, and get around 140-character limit  —  Twitter's new article preview cards could be a boost for publishers  —  Publishers may be able to get more value …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Former AOL exec Ran Harnevo raises $20M for Bkstg, a musician-fan app, expected to launch later this year  —  Bkstg, Backed by $20 Million in Funding, Promises to Connect Musicians and Their Fans  —  Justin Bieber blew up on YouTube and dominates Twitter.  He also visits Instagram and recently started appearing on Snapchat.
Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama:
NewsHunt acquires BuyT for integrating contextual product recommendations  —  News and content app NewsHunt has bought BuyT, a product discovery and recommendation platform, which will be integrated with NewsHunt for delivering product recommendations to NewsHunt users, and help it improve its mobile advertising based monetization.
Ross Miller / The Verge:
The Apple Watch is now a remote for Hulu  —  Hulu has updated its iOS app to add Apple Watch support, and no, it's not for watching TV on your wrist.  No one wants to watch TV on their wrist.  The app, instead, functions as a basic remote, letting you pause, turn captions on / off …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Fox Broadcasting's head of original digital programming, launches digital TV studio Insurrection Media  —  Kiliaen Van Rensselaer Leaving Fox Broadcasting to Launch Digital TV Studio (Exclusive)  —  Startup Insurrection Media is backed by Allen DeBevoise's Third Wave Capital Partners
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Flipagram cuts deal with Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, and more for clips, raises $70M Series B led by Sequoia; John Doerr, Mike Moritz join board  —  Flipagram Raises $70M, Scores Record Label Deals Thanks To 30M+ Music Hungry Users  —  It's a mix of Instagram and YouTube...maybe a bit of a old school RockYou component.
Discussion: VentureBeat, Variety and The Next Web
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
How 98-year-old Forbes Media generates 70% of its revenues from digital  —  Five years ago, Forbes Media's total traffic amounted to 12 million visitors a month.  Now it gets close to 36 million visitors, with 18 million on mobile.  —  Mark Howard, chief revenue officer of Forbes Media …
Discussion: @raju
John Jewell / The Conversation:
Murdoch newspapers have a long history of teaming up with conservative governments to target public media like the BBC  —  Bad news week for BBC as Murdoch press sharpens claws  —  Sang Tan / AP/Press Association Images  —  It's to be yet another week of crisis, inspection and introspection …
Discussion: Telegraph
Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
Marlene Sanders, the first woman to anchor a prime-time network newscast, dies at age 84  —  Pioneering TV journalist Marlene Sanders dies  —  LOS ANGELES—Marlene Sanders, one of the first female broadcast TV journalists, died of cancer Tuesday at age 84.
 
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Harper's magazine employees vote to end their union, had been affiliated since 2010 with UAW
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Sasha Frere-Jones to launch entertainment vertical at the LA Times
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Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
Skift nears profitability, is focusing on trends and the future of travel
Steven Morris / Guardian:
Brighton council rapped for attempt to charge £200 recording fee for interview
Discussion: @al_therrien
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Ex-BBC director general Lord Birt says cuts to BBC budget five years ago led to reduction in original UK content, expects new cuts will lead to further decline
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Browser policies, boost in Google search rankings, better analytics are slowly pushing news organizations to adopt HTTPS for secure, encrypted connections
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices “without hanging up and rejoining” via its Android, iOS, and web apps

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
The US awards Micron up to $6.1B under the CHIPS Act, to support an up to $125B investment to build a “megafab” in New York and Idaho over the next 20 years
 
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