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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Expands Search To All 2 Trillion Posts, Surfacing Public Real-Time News — Facebook is ready to challenge Google and Twitter for control of real-time news search and the news itself. Starting today with a rollout to US English language users, Facebook Search will return anything you're allowed …
Julia Boorstin / CNBC:
Vice will launch TV network in US and Europe in 2016, revenue nears $1B this year, says CEO Shane Smith — Vice to launch TV network in US, and a dozen in Europe — Vice CEO Shane Smith has built an empire around content aimed at millennials. Now, he says he's bringing that content to many more TV networks around the globe.
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@rafat, Fortune, FishbowlNY and @mathewi
Cat Zakrzewski / TechCrunch:
Pandora Shares Down 20% In After-Hours Trading After Company Posts Q3 Loss — After the market closed Thursday, online music streaming service Pandora reported a third quarter loss of $85.9 million. — The company lost 40 cents per share. Pandora met street estimates and posted an adjusted profit of 10 cents per share.
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Bloomberg Business, Globe and Mail, @richbtig, @corvuscap, ZDNet, @richbtig, @joan_e, Re/code, 24/7 Wall St., CNET, TheStreet.com and Pandora
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Eriq Gardner / Billboard:
Pandora Reaches $90 Million Settlement With Labels Over Pre-1972 Music
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Ars Technica, The Hill, Tennessean.com and Variety
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
Amazon Handily Beats Analyst Expectations With $25.4B In Sales, Stock Spikes 11% — Amazon — once again — surprised investors by beating analyst expectations for its third-quarter earnings report, bringing in $2.54 billion in net sales and earnings of 17 cents cents per share.
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Amazon.com, Publishers Weekly, Pocket-lint, Forbes and Re/code
Tom Corrigan / Wall Street Journal:
Investor group led by Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh secures control of studio in bankruptcy hearing — Kavanaugh-Led Group Clinches Control of Relativity — Hollywood studio now separate entity from TV business, which was sold to senior lenders — Investors led by Relativity Media LLC's founder …
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bizjournals, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Deadline and Variety
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Fired Los Angeles Times publisher Austin Beutner urges local ownership of newspapers but says he's not involved in ongoing talks to buy paper — Fired Los Angeles Times publisher urges local ownership — Austin Beutner, the Los Angeles Times publisher who was recently fired by Tribune Publishing …
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Chicago Tribune, LA Observed, 89.3 KPCC, @daviduberti, @brianstelter, @lemonverbena_, @daviduberti, Politico and FishbowlNY
Anna M. Phillips / Tampa Bay Times:
Florida judge rules Hulk Hogan's legal team can search Gawker computers, servers, emails, text messages for terms: “racist”, “Hulk Hogan”, “DVD details” — Judge: Hulk Hogan can investigate leak of racist rant — ST. PETERSBURG — Hulk Hogan's legal team …
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Hollywood Reporter, Fox News, Fusion, @zackwhittaker, @kashhill, @eriqgardner, CNNMoney, UPROXX, all, @daweiner, BuzzFeed, Wrestlezone and Bleacher Report
Adam Popescu / The Verge:
Medium's next phase will be facilitating connections between writers and brands, CEO Ev Williams says — Ev Williams on Medium's future, his new venture fund, and listening to his gut — Ev Williams has said that Medium is a platform, not a publisher. Despite its title and apparent initial focus …
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Véronique Hyland / New York Magazine:
Kate Lanphear Will Step Down As Maxim EIC — Kate Lanphear's bold experiment at Maxim sounds like it has run its course. The T and ELLE vet and O.G. street-style star is stepping down from her editor-in-chief position, per a release from the magazine. Lanphear has been in the job …
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FishbowlNY, WWD, Fashionista, Racked and Jezebel
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Liberty Global in talks to buy Cable & Wireless Communications, which serves the Caribbean, Panama, Monaco, and the Seychelles — Malone's Liberty Global in Talks to Buy Cable & Wireless Communications — Deal could value company at more than $5 billion, be reached by early November
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Light Reading, Variety and Multichannel News
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Lena Dunham's Lenny is the first celebrity-run site that might threaten traditional media outlets as the Internet increasingly displaces the middleman press — Lena Dunham and Lenny: Self-Publishing Celebrities as News Competition — Few would doubt Lena Dunham has many awards coming …
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@awallenstein
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
More articles are shared via text than Twitter, email, or Facebook in BuzzFeed's News app — You're probably underestimating how much your articles are being shared via text message — Last fall, in our Predictions for 2015 package, Jamie Mottram of Gannett predicted we'd see an increase in SMS sharing.
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Q&A with Vox CEO Jim Bankoff on valuations, acquisitions, and partnerships with large media corporations — Media People: Vox Media's Jim Bankoff — Jim Bankoff, chairman and chief executive officer of Vox Media, isn't exactly a typical start-up ceo.
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