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Twitter and Bloomberg sign licensing deal increasing Twitter data available in terminals and offering a curated feed of financial tweets — Bloomberg and Twitter Sign Data Licensing Agreement — Bloomberg adds enhanced custom alerts and tools to its Twitter offering
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Sources: Cablevision to be acquired by European telecoms company Altice for $17.7B including debt — Altice to buy Cablevision for $17.7B including debt: Sources — Acquisitive Netherlands-based telecoms company Altice will buy U..S. cable television provider Cablevision for $17.7 billion including debt, sources told CNBC.
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La Presse to drop weekday print edition beginning January 1, 2016, push readers to La Presse+ tablet edition — Quebec's La Presse to scrap weekday print edition to focus on app — La Presse will scrap its weekday print edition starting Jan. 1, staking its future on its popular tablet app …
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SEC filing indicates BuzzFeed aims to raise an additional $100M to add to earlier $200M from NBCUniversal — Buzzfeed could raise another $100 million in current funding round — Buzzfeed could raise an additional $100 million as part of its current funding round, according to documents that the company filed with the SEC today.


Public library in New Hampshire votes to continue supporting Tor for anonymous browsing despite concerns from DHS, police and local government — West Lebanon library to keep backing Tor — From left, Mary Sorens, of West Lebanon, N.H., Carla Gericke, of Manchester, N.H., Jason Sorens …


Warner Bros. Sells Digital Content Distribution Service to Vubiquity as It Trims Costs — Warner Bros. is outsourcing its digital content distribution business as it fights to trim overhead costs. — The studio sold its Digital-End-to-End managed content service to Vubiquity …
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Amazon offers Prime members Washington Post National Digital Edition subscriptions free for six months, then $48 per year — Jeff Bezos (finally) pumps up the Post with Prime — In a potentially game-changing move, Amazon will begin offering free to dirt-cheap subscriptions to The Washington Post …
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The Washington Post aims to become a nationally dominant paper through Amazon customers
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Open State Foundation has uploaded Politwoops' archive of 1M deleted politician tweets to the Internet Archive — Open State preserves Politwoops' history on the net — In a move to preserve the public record for everyone, Open State has uploaded its complete Politwoops archive …
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How Recode, Reuters, Popular Science, The Week, Mic, The Verge, and USA Today's FTW have continued talking with readers after shutting off comments — What happened after 7 news sites got rid of reader comments — Recode, Reuters, Popular Science, The Week, Mic, The Verge …
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AT&T Taps Former Sirius XM, Cisco Exec as Video and Internet CTO — Enrique Rodriguez joins telco after former DirecTV CTO Rômulo Pontual exits — AT&T has hired Enrique Rodriguez as executive VP and chief technical officer for its Entertainment and Internet business …
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Publishers need to focus on sustainable business models and journalism that works in tandem with that model — Popping the Publishing Bubble — Over the last few weeks and months there has been increasing alarm that today, September 16, is a critical one for publishers — and by critical …
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Kim Dotcom gets support fighting US extradition in Megaupload copyright case from Larry Lessig — Presidential Candidate Lawrence Lessig Steps Up To Assist Kim Dotcom — After failing in a last ditch attempt to have their extradition hearing delayed once again, next week Kim Dotcom …
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Turkish magazine Nokta raided, copies of latest issues confiscated after charges of “insulting the Turkish president” and “making terrorist propaganda” — Turkish magazine raided, copies collected for insulting Erdoan … Turkish magazine Nokta has been raided …
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