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Sources: Twitter building new product to let users share tweets longer than 140 characters, enabling publication of long-form content on the platform — Twitter Plans to Go Beyond Its 140-Character Limit — Twitter is building a new product that will allow users to share tweets that are longer …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Axel Springer's $343M purchase of Business Insider sets new high mark in digital publisher sales, beating AOL's 2011 purchase of Huffington Post for $315M — Sold! Axel Springer Bets Big on Digital, Buys Business Insider. — Earlier this year, German publisher Axel Springer tried and failed to buy the Financial Times.
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Kenneth Wong / Bloomberg Business:
Axel Springer Buys 88% of Business Insider for $343 Million — German media company Axel Springer SE agreed to buy an 88 percent stake in Business Insider Inc. for $343 million. — Axel Springer already owns a 9 percent stake in New York-based Business Insider, which runs …
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Financial Times CEO John Ridding on the paper's acquisition by Nikkei and how journalism shot itself in the foot by going for mass-reach, low quality — The Financial Times and the Future of Journalism — In a generally depressing decade for newspapers, the Financial Times …
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Apple:
Apple Music, iTunes Movies, and iBooks now available in China, music free for three months then 10 RMB/month, movies start at 5 RMB, iBooks from 0.5 RMB — Apple Brings Apple Music, iTunes Movies & iBooks to Customers in China Starting Today — Apple® today announced that Apple Music™ …
Allison Schiff / AdExchanger:
IAB is forming Ad Blocking Working Group and plans to distribute code that detects ad blockers — Ad Blocking - Unlike Fraud - Comes At The User's Behest — If ad blocking is war, long-tail publishers will likely be its earliest casualties. — “Ad blocking is a threat to the whole industry …
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's Head of News Partnerships, Liz Heron, joins The Huffington Post as Executive Editor, will jointly steer site alongside Arianna Huffington — Huffington Post Names Liz Heron Executive Editor — Ms. Heron was Facebook's head of news partnerships
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast launches web video service Watchable with 30 partners including Vice, Vox, and Buzzfeed — Comcast Launches Watchable: Can Web Video Help Save Cable TV? — Cable giant debuts service with 30 content partners, available on set-tops, apps and online
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Rhiannon Williams / Telegraph:
Zane Lowe: 'I'm not sure that Apple Music needs Beats 1' — The Beats 1 and former BBC DJ said he is uncertain as to why Apple's streaming service Apple Music needs his station Beats 1 — DJ Zane Lowe has admitted he's unsure if Apple Music needs the digital radio station Beats 1 …
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The Next Web and Digital Spy
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
YouTube announces Shopping ads, which overlay the video player, with testing this fall — YouTube Introduces Shopping Ads — YouTube videos are going to get more shoppable, with the company announcing a new ad unit today called Shopping ads. — The Google-owned video site has been moving …
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Shannon Bond / Financial Times:
Activist opposes Media General's planned acquisition of Meredith — Media General, the US television station owner, is facing pressure from an activist shareholder to call off its proposed $3.1bn deal to buy Meredith and instead sell itself to Nexstar Broadcasting Group.
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Wall Street Journal:
Digital measurement firm ComScore to acquire TV measurement firm Rentrak in all-stock deal — Measurement Firm ComScore to Acquire Rentrak — Merger could create more formidable rival to No. 1 player Nielsen — Measurement firm comScore Inc. on Tuesday said it agreed to acquire rival Rentrak Corp …
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Brent Lang / Variety:
21st Century Fox Taps Investor Jeffrey Ubben to Join Board — Senior Film and Media Reporter @BrentALang — 21st Century Fox has tapped ValueAct Capital founder Jeffrey W. Ubben to join its board, bringing the number of directors from 12 to 13. — Ubben made headlines last month by buying …
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