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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.
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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American Press Institute, Poynter, Associated Press, @mathewi and @nathanjurgenson
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 …
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The Daily Dot, The Verge and Engadget
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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BuzzFeed:
Leaked documents reveal Ecuador's president used almost $4.7M from intelligence budget to remove derogatory content from Youtube, Facebook, Vimeo, Dailymotion — Ecuador's President Used Millions Of Dollars Of Public Funds To Censor Critical Online Videos — Exclusive: BuzzFeed News …
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The Verge, Bitcoinist.net and @willardfoxton
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 …
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Music Business Worldwide, Music Ally, Fortune, 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.
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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Bangkok Post, Bangkok Post and ThaiVisa News
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.
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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