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12:15 PM ET, August 5, 2015

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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Yelp and ProPublica partner to offer patients information on hospitals, nursing homes, and dialysis clinics  —  Coming to Yelp: A bigger dose of data on health-care facilities  —  Yelp is adding a ton of health-care data to its review pages for medical businesses to give consumers more access …
Ben Popper / The Verge:
How MLB Advanced Media got a head start online, navigated partnerships, and emerged as the most reliable name in streaming, on pace to earn $900M in 2015  —  How baseball's tech team built the future of television  —  It was the first week of April, 2015, and New York's Chelsea Market …
Discussion: Fast Company
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
MLB Advanced Media to spin out streaming video unit valued at over $3B, signs deal giving NHL up to 10% equity in the new company named BAM Tech
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Sources: Apple's licensing deals include permission to create up to five additional radio stations like Beats 1  —  Apple's music deals allow for new Beats stations at any time  —  While Apple Music may have gotten off to a less than stellar start, Apple's 24/7 radio station Beats 1 has lived …
Dan Kennedy / Nieman Lab:
New Haven Independent launching a low-power FM radio station, WNHH, seeking to build community and sustainability  —  In New Haven, a low-power FM experiment seeks local conversation — and financial sustainability  —  John Dankosky stood before the 20 or so fledgling radio hosts who had crowded …
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
A Sale of The Economist Is Unlikely to Change Its Voice  —  Journalists at The Economist speak, half-jokingly, of a mythical, perfect sentence for the news and business weekly.  It is some version of this:  —  “Wrong.”  —  That implies, said Chris Anderson, who worked there for seven years in the 1990s …
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Steven Scheer / Reuters:
Taboola signs three-year strategic partnership with Gannett  —  U.S.-Israeli firm Taboola, whose technology directs users to related content on the Internet, said on Wednesday it signed a three-year exclusive strategic partnership with USA Today publisher Gannett (GCI.N).
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish Sheds 81,000 Pay-TV Subs in Q2, As Sling Fails to Offset Satellite Losses  —  Dish Network's Sling TV over-the-top service now has more than 250,000 subscribers — but the company dropped more satellite TV customers than that over the first half of 2015.
Ellen Emmerentze Jervell / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer Q2 revenue up 7%, continues to pursue digital expansion  —  Axel Springer Posts Drop in Second-Quarter Earnings  —  Publisher continues to pursue digital expansion after losing out on buying the Financial Times  —  FRANKFURT— Axel Springer SE said its second-quarter earnings …
Chelsey Dulaney / Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner Q2 beats estimates, revenue up 8.2% to $7.35B, also up at Turner, HBO and Warner Bros  —  Time Warner Earnings Tops Views  —  Media company helped by higher revenue from videogames, licensing, HBO Now  —  Time Warner Inc. 's profit easily topped Wall Street expectations in the second quarter …
Davey Alba / Wired:
Inside Jukin Media, which finds, licenses, and sells potentially viral videos and is aiming for $15M-20M in revenue this year  —  Inside the Company That's Made Viral Videos Big Business  —  Nate Granzow settles into his chair and taps a few keys on his keyboard.  Two large computer screens blink to life.
Discussion: Boing Boing
 
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