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Re/code:
Sources: Pandora close to buying ticketing agency TicketFly for $450M in cash and stock — Pandora Appears Close to a $450 Million Deal for Ticketfly — Pandora appears close to a deal to buy Ticketfly, a ticketing agency that specializes in smaller venues, for around $450 million.
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Seeking Alpha, Business Insider and Radio Ink Magazine
Lisa Campbell / Bookseller News:
Waterstones, the UK's largest book retailer, removes Kindles as sales continue to decline — Waterstones is removing Kindles from stores — Waterstones is removing Amazon's Kindle devices from many of it stores as sales “continue to be pitiful”. — The company's m.d James Daunt …
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Guardian, Telecompaper, Ars Technica UK, @stuartdredge, Engadget, Good E-Reader, TrustedReviews, Telegraph, Bookseller News and Publishers Lunch
New York Times:
New York Attorney General opens inquiry into fantasy sports sites, asks DraftKings and FanDuel for internal data and details on how they prevent fraud — New York Attorney General Opens Inquiry Into Fantasy Sports Sites — The New York attorney general began an inquiry Tuesday into the prospect …
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The Hill, FSTA, Deadspin, VatorNews, SBNation.com, Legal Sports Report, CalvinAyre.com, FanDuel Newsroom, NBC News, Engadget, Business Insider and ThinkProgress
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter Moments Are Like Snapchat's Live Stories, Except They're on Twitter — Let's say you're a person who doesn't care about Twitter's stock price, org chart or MAU growth. What's the best way to describe “Moments,” the new multimedia feature the company launched today? — It's like Snapchat's Live Stories.
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Re/code, @brianstelter, @jank0, TechCrunch and App Advice
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Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Twitter releases editorial guidelines for Moments, stating rules to keep curators free from bias and conflicts of interest
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
News organizations including BuzzFeed, The New York Times and The Washington Post have signed up to use Twitter's new product, Moments
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New York Times, Ad Age, Poynter, Refinery29, Adweek, BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Globe and Mail, VentureBeat, Engadget, Variety, FishbowlNY, Forbes, WWD, @jayrosen_nyu, @antderosa, @fedecherubini and @niemanlab
Madhu Muthukumar / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter launches Moments, formerly Project Lightning, its event-based curation of tweets, videos, and images, on iOS, Android, and desktop web
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The Verge, SiliconANGLE, WebProNews, TechnoBuffalo, Android Police, @brianstelter, @antderosa, @brianstelter, Guardian, SportsBusiness Daily, BetaNews, Net Worked, MacStories, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, VatorNews, SocialTimes, Telegraph, The New York Observer, Digiday, Neowin, Silicon Republic, The Drum, Gizmodo, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, CNET, SiliconBeat, TechCrunch, Tech Insider, @digidave, all, Washington Post, SlashGear, @gettyimages, Android Central, @bychrismarch, @mwandf, @bohan, @magicandrew and @jess
Emily Nussbaum / New Yorker:
As TV evolves, viewers struggle with whether to embrace or resist its commercialism — The Price Is Right — Ever since the finale of “Mad Men,” I've been meditating on its audacious last image. Don Draper, sitting cross-legged and purring “Ommmm,” is achieving inner peace at an Esalen-like retreat.
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The Awl, @kbandersen, @freddiedeboer, @pomeranian99, @michele866 and @sethdmichaels
Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Sources: Media General drops plans to buy Meredith for $2.4B — Media General drops bid to acquire Meredith — Media General's $2.4 billion agreement to acquire Meredith Corp. is dead, two sources close to the deal said. — One day after The Post reported exclusively …
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Media Wire Daily and GoLocalProv.com
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Johnston Press announces closures of 11 free titles to focus on ‘digital offering’ — Johnston Press has announced the closures of 11 free newspapers. The regional publisher has axed eight free print titles in the Midlands and folded a further three into paid-for titles in the North West and South.
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Reuters, @pressgazette, Johnston Press plc and HoldTheFrontPage
ProPublica:
Verizon merges its cellphone tracking supercookies with AOL's ad network, will be able to match users' online habits with personal details — Verizon's Zombie Cookie Gets New Life — Verizon is giving a new mission to its controversial hidden identifier that tracks users of mobile devices.
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Techdirt, The Next Web, The Verge, Engadget and SlashGear
Wall Street Journal:
Increasing concerns about Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone's health raise succession questions; seven-person trust will control Viacom and CBS after his death — Battle Brews Atop Media Giant Viacom — Concern about health of Chairman Sumner Redstone sparks questions over who will succeed him
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New York Times, @jbflint, @richbtig, @keachhagey, @asharma, @keachhagey, @pkafka, @joshsternberg and @edmundlee
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Walt Disney Co. owned cable network ABC Family to be renamed Freeform beginning 2016 — ABC Family Changing Name to Freeform — Disney network aims to attract more young viewers turned off by wholesome image — Another well-known cable network name is being disowned.
Agence France-Presse:
Freed Canadian Jazeera journalist Fahmy leaves Egypt — Cairo (AFP) - Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian journalist with Al-Jazeera television freed from an Egyptian jail last month after a presidential pardon for broadcasting “false” news, announced Tuesday he was leaving the country.
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Associated Press
Ben Wolford / Medium:
Latterly, a small, ad-free digital magazine for narrative international reporting, buys travel-oriented Compass Cultura, which had a similar business model — Notes on the world's tiniest media empire — How Latterly purchased Compass Cultura — I remember where I was when Compass Cultura was born.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hulu Gets ‘Inside Amy Schumer,’ Other Viacom Shows Exclusively in Major New Pact — Hulu has doubled the amount of content it is licensing from Viacom, with an expanded pact giving the Internet TV service exclusive subscription VOD rights to all past and future seasons of Comedy Central's …
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Variety, CNNMoney, Deadline, Multichannel News, Los Angeles Times, SlashGear, FierceCable and Hollywood Reporter
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