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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Deezer IPO filing shows firm spends 75%+ of revenue on rights holders, fails to make money on 40.2% of subscribers — Deezer's IPO Filing Shows Both Potential and Problems — The financial information in Deezer's filing for a public stock offering provides rare transparency …
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
iOS ad blocker Crystal will get a flat monthly fee to let through ads that are on Adblock Plus owner Eyeo's paid whitelist — Propelled By Apple, Ad Blocking Cottage Industry Emerges — Software promises to block ads, and in some cases allow “acceptable” ones
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AppleInsider, Consumerist, @eringriffith, @moral_hazard, @hardaway, @eringriffith and The Awl
Associated Press:
EU urges Thai military government to respect freedom of speech and democracy as it drafts new constitution — EU calls on Thai government to allow critical voices to be heard — BANGKOK (AP) — The European Union urged Thailand's military government on Thursday to respect freedom of speech …
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bangkokpost.com, bangkokpost.com and ThaiVisa News
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with SF Chronicle editor-in-chief Audrey Cooper on experimentation, crowdfunding, incubators, and offline events to attract new readers — The San Francisco Chronicle looks to crowdfunding, incubators, and offline events to attract new readers — The Hearst-owned San Francisco Chronicle sits in a hub of tech and innovation.
Bloomberg Business:
Behind the fake traffic schemes using bots for fraudulent ad clicks that will cost advertisers $6.3B this year — The Fake Traffic Schemes That Are Rotting the Internet — Marketers thought the Web would allow perfectly targeted ads. Hasn't worked out that way.
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Tamara Lush / Associated Press:
AP, other media outlets ask Florida judge to unseal records in Hulk Hogan suit against Gawker — Media companies want Hulk Hogan records unsealed — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A group of media outlets is asking a Florida judge to make records in the Hulk Hogan sex video case public.
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411MANIA, Cageside Seats, Poynter and @benmullin
Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Netflix announces in-app subscriptions for iPhone and iPad, offers same monthly rate as on the web — Netflix adds in-app subscriptions for iPhone and iPad — Now you won't even need to get off the sofa to find your laptop before you start binge-watching Netflix.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix studies viewing data to determine when subscribers commit to TV shows, finds contrary to conventional wisdom, none get hooked on pilot — Netflix Data Reveals Exactly When TV Shows Hook Viewers — And It's Not the Pilot — Netflix crunched cold, hard viewing data …
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The Verge, Netflix, Gizmodo, Tubefilter, The A.V. Club, TechRadar.com, TIME, New York Daily News, Sydney Morning Herald, Engadget, Tech Insider, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Wired.co.uk, Fast Company, Washington Post, Exstreamist, BGR, WebProNews, Business Insider, moviepilot.com, Multichannel News and UPROXX
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
ONA receives $800K Knight Foundation grant to expand programs for local journalists — ONA will expand its programs for local journalists with Knight funding — The Online News Association plans to make a push into local with new funding from Knight Foundation.
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Journalism.co.uk and Poynter
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Trump's understanding of political media is better than his competitors, and the outsized attention he gets creates political momentum — The media's Trump conundrum — Donald Trump was telling the truth. “It's a simple formula in entertainment and television,” he explained before a crowd of thousands in Dallas last week.
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New York Times, New York Magazine, @pmarca, The Huffington Post, @ron_fournier, @deechteooms, @shannonpareil and @daviduberti
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
FanDuel acquires eSports fantasy platform AlphaDraft, which will continue operating — FanDuel Acquires eSports Company AlphaDraft, Also Jumps Into Competitive Video Gaming — Aren't business rivalries fun? — Just one day after fantasy sports site DraftKings announced …
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Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Business Wire, HEITNER LEGAL, VentureBeat and Wall Street Journal
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
An insiders take on the partial relaunch of Gigaom, six months after the original shut down — How Gigaom died and then came back to life again, kind of — On a Monday night in March, Gigaom, the site where I'd worked for four years, abruptly shut down.
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