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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources: Axel Springer within weeks of closing deal for full control of Business Insider, valuing it about $560M — Axel Springer Wants to Buy Business Insider for Around $560 Million — German publishing giant Axel Springer is closing in on a deal to buy Business Insider …
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Netflix-like e-book subscription service Oyster to shut down; part of team moving to Google Play Books, including CEO and co-founders according to sources — Oyster, a Netflix for Books, Is Shutting Down. But Most of Its Team Is Heading to Google. — Oyster, a company that provides …
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Sophia Yan / CNNMoney:
New York Times not available in Thailand on Tuesday after local printer declines to print it because of sensitive story about country's monarchy — Why you can't find today's New York Times in Thailand — The international edition of The New York Times wasn't printed Tuesday in Thailand.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait announces global technology coverage reorganization under Brad Stone — Brad Stone, author of ‘The Everything Store,’ to lead Bloomberg's tech coverage — Brad Stone, the Bloomberg Businessweek senior writer and author of “The Everything Store …
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Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
Google's appeal against global enforcement of right to be forgotten removals rejected by French data protection authority CNIL — French data regulator rejects Google's right-to-be-forgotten appeal — Search engine's attempt to block French order to apply delistings to its google.com domain …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
NYT makes 50 of its best pieces of journalism free to read — The New York Times on Monday lifted its paywall for some of the paper's best journalism published during the last four years, part of a larger celebration marking the Times' recent 1 million digital subscriber milestone.
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Bloomberg Business:
Streaming Music Service Deezer Plans IPO to Challenge Spotify, Apple — Proceeds earmarked for expanding sales, entering new markets — Music service said to be seeking valuation of $1.1 billion — Deezer SA filed for an initial public offering to raise funds as the French music-streaming service seeks …
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Matt Miller / Esquire:
The Onion launches StarWipe, a parody of celebrity gossip sites, led by senior The A.V. Club editor Sean O'Neal — ‘StarWipe’ Is The Onion's Answer to Soulless Celebrity Gossip — It's like ClickHole, only with way more Bieber and Kardashian. — STARWIPE
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Simple.tv to launch ShowDrive, a cloud DVR to store/stream up to 1K hours of TV, in UK within weeks, cost £1/month for 100 hours, £5/month for 1K hours — Aereo's Heir: Simple.tv to Launch New Cloud DVR Called ShowDrive (Exclusive) — Aereo may be dead, but that doesn't stop …
Jiayue Huang / USA Today:
Brian Williams returns to air on MSNBC Tuesday for Pope coverage — Broadcaster Brian Williams will return to the air Tuesday, easing into a far less prominent but familiar position of anchoring breaking news. — The former chief anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News …
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Diane Bartz / Reuters:
US Copyright Office says that Pandora's pact with Merlin can be used to calculate US royalties for independent musicians — Pandora wins round at U.S. Copyright Office — Pandora Media Inc said on Monday it was pleased that the U.S. Copyright Office agreed that the company's pact with Merlin Network …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The Daily Show hires former Circa EIC Anthony De Rosa — When “The Daily Show” begins its push to spread comedic news beyond its once-a-day television show this fall, it'll have help from a real newsman: Anthony De Rosa, the former editor in chief of the mobile news startup Circa.
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