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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 …
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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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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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Eriq Gardner / Billboard:
Pandora Reaches $90 Million Settlement With Labels Over Pre-1972 Music — Keith Moon and The Who, John Entwistle, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon and Pete Townshend performing ‘Happy Jack’. — Ron Howard/Redferns — The Recording Industry Association of America has announced that its members …
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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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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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Aaron Sharockman / Tampa Bay Times:
Scripps partners with PolitiFact in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Ohio; political fact-checking now covers 14 states ahead of 2016 presidential election — PolitiFact and Scripps launch partnerships in Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Ohio — PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter is coming to Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Ohio.
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Broadcasting & Cable and @politifact
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Google launches €150m fund for publishers' digital news projects — Internet giant says funding will have ‘no strings attached’, with larger grants needing approval from a council including the Telegraph's Murdoch MacLennan — Google has launched its €150m (£109m) …
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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 …
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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George Slefo / Ad Age:
IAB: Digital advertising revenue reaches record high of $27.5B during first half of 2015, with mobile accounting for 30% of all digital ad spend — IAB: Digital Advertising Hits Record High of $27.5 Billion — Mobile Leads the Pack, Accounting for 30% of All Digital Advertising Spend
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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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