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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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