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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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FishbowlNY, Fortune and @mathewi
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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Facebook, Engadget, Digiday, VentureBeat, The Verge, ZDNet, CNET, Business 2 Community, Business Insider, SlashGear, @digiphile, @gaberivera, App Advice, Tech Times, Search Engine Land, BuzzFeed, The Next Web, Re/code, Marketing Land and @tcarmody
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, UPROXX, all, Fox News, @daweiner, @eriqgardner, BuzzFeed and Wrestlezone
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, @politifact and TVNewsCheck.com
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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MediaPost, Ad Age, warc.com, Search Engine Land, Radio & Television …, Business Wire, The Drum, AdExchanger, Wall Street Journal and Marketing Land
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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The Next Web, Press Gazette, TechCrunch, Financial Times, EconoTimes and 9to5Google
SportsBusiness Daily:
Universal Sports TV Channel Slated To Shut Down Next Month … The Universal Sports TV channel is shutting down next month after nearly a decade in operation. NBC execs told the channel's approximately 75 employees during an early morning meeting in L.A. today.
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VeloNews.com, Cyclingnews.com, Awful Announcing, @kellydomara, @ourand_sbj, Deadline, @jmarthaler and @jasongay
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Business Insider plan more subscription offerings as more outlets turn to paywall strategies — Content paywalls on the agenda for digital news sites — There was a time not long ago when the news business was a roaring economic success. Newspapers sold millions of copies …
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Business Insider
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
Discussion:
Multichannel News, Variety and FierceCable
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
ABC News grew monthly video views from 20M to 100M in 8 months, mostly with repackaged TV content — ABC News' secret to YouTube success: TV content — ABC News has more than 1.5 billion views on YouTube — most of which are happening on TV content that the publisher has repackaged for the online video site.
Jason Lynch / Adweek:
Ahead of December launch, Nielsen unveils its total audience measurement tool that counts viewers across all TVs, DVRs, VODs, PCs, and mobile devices — A First Look at Nielsen's Total Audience Measurement and How It Will Change the Industry — It's been two years since Nielsen …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
YouTube confirms any partner creator who earns cut of ad revenue but does not agree to YouTube Red revenue share deal will have videos hidden — YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don't Sign Its Red Subscription Deal — YouTube made its top video creators an offer …
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