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Isaac Salier-Hellendag / Facebook:
Facebook rolling out redesigned Notes with options for images, captions, other formatting — Updates for Facebook Notes — We're rolling out an update to make notes on Facebook more beautiful and customizable. Notes are now an even better way to write a longer post and share with anyone …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources: YouTube finalizing plans to bundle Music Key and ad-free videos for $10/month, could launch at end of October — YouTube Is Prepping Its Subscription Launch: Two Services, One Price — YouTube, which spent the first 10 years of its life as a free service, is getting ready to start selling tickets.
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Android Police, Engadget, @xpangler, Digital Trends, @pkafka, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, 9to5Google, Android and Me and BetaBoston
Bob Lefsetz / The Lefsetz Letter:
Apple Music broke Clayton Christensen's rules for disruptive innovation, trying to please old customers as well as new ones — Apple Music's Functionality Failure — They broke Clayton Christensen's rule. The other night, I decided to play some MP3s. Retro, I know.
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@felixsalmon, @dasan, @vajrang, @benthompson and Business Insider
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Amazon's Twitch to add video uploads, playlists in 2016 to more directly compete with YouTube — Amazon's Twitch to add video uploads in new battle with YouTube — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitch just strayed into direct competition with YouTube. — Emmett Shear, chief executive of Amazon's Twitch division …
Jo Ellison / Financial Times:
Since Vogue's online relaunch in August 2014, it has grown audience figures by 80 percent, with 4M uniques in the last two weeks — Vogue goes viral — What happens when the world's glossiest magazine goes digital? Jo Ellison reports from inside Vogue.com
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Study of millennials' news reading habits shows majority don't pay for news and many use a subscription service paid for by someone else — Guess what: Millennials aren't all the same when it comes to news consumption — Millennials tend to get lumped into a big group when it comes …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Netflix plans to serve as its own studio for more shows, strengthening its control over distribution rights — Netflix to Make More Shows of Its Own — Streaming service wants to produce and own more programs — Shift would help company offer same lineup of shows worldwide
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FierceOnlineVideo News, The Verge and Business Insider
Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
Fusion Joins Sling TV Lineup — Part of $5/Month ‘World News Extra’ Add-On Pack — Fusion, a network focused on millennials, said it has launched on Sling TV, Dish Network's OTT-TV service for cord-cutters and cord-never. — Fusion is offered on Sling TV's “World News Extra” add-on pack …
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Broadcasting & Cable
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Deezer IPO filing shows firm spends 75%+ of revenue on rights holders, doesn't generate revenue from 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 …
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Fortune, Music Business Worldwide, Music Ally, GlobalCapital, Music Week, ChinaPost.com.tw and Interactive Investor
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.
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TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Steven Musil / CNET:
CNN partners with NextVR to offer VR livestream of Oct. 13 Democratic presidential debate — Democratic presidential debate to be live-streamed in virtual reality — CNN promises a “front row seat” to next month's debate through 3D immersive virtual reality.
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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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