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Why distribution deals with unsigned artists are a good path to profitability for music platforms like Pandora and Spotify — Thinking Outside of Pandora's Box — “And you ain't get a coin, [Nas], you was getting f**ked then — I know who I paid, God - Serchlite publishing
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx to Tour, Years After Death, as Holograms — As comedians, Redd Foxx and Andy Kaufman could hardly be more different. Foxx, the pioneering nightclub performer and star of “Sanford & Son,” who died in 1991, was candid, socially conscious and unapologetically obscene.
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Mark Joyella / TVNewser:
Univision Crew Turned Away from Trump Campaign Event — Journalists from Univision say they were turned away from a Donald Trump campaign event in Doral, Florida today. — Lourdes Del Rio, a Univision anchor, said no reason was given by the campaign when they were refused permission to cover the event.
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business:
Twitter's first Promoted Moments native advertising campaign rolls out this weekend — Twitter Rolls Out Advertising on New ‘Moments’ Feature — First Promoted Moment to run this weekend for movie ‘Creed’ — Twitter Inc. isn't wasting any time making money from its newest feature, called Moments.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
FBI Doesn't Allow Huffington Post Reporter Into Director's Talk After Critical Article — Other journalists were permitted to cover it.
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Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Vivendi Increases Stakes In Telecom Italia To 20 Percent — DIJON, France- Aiming to expand its activities in Southern Europe, Paris-based Vivendi has upped its stakes in Telecom Italia to 19.9 percent. — Vivendi became Telecom Italia's biggest shareholder in June after buying 14.9 percent of the leading European telecom.
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.
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District court dismisses Wikimedia v. NSA internet surveillance case brought by ACLU for broad coalition, says plaintiffs failed to show they were monitored — CASE WAS BROUGHT ON BEHALF OF WIKIMEDIA, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS, OTHERS — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal district court granted …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ESPN videos unavailable on YouTube because of rights issues related to YouTube Red launch — ESPN Videos Go Dark on YouTube — Nearly all of ESPN's video content on YouTube has become unavailable, because of unresolved rights issues related to the upcoming launch of the YouTube Red subscription service.
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The Verge, TechCrunch and Digiday
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Charter Quietly Offers Skinny Bundle Aimed at Cord Cutters — Charter has very quietly launched a skinny bundle of basic TV channels in an attempt to keep users from cutting the cord. Charter's new “Spectrum TV Stream” service costs $13 a month, and includes a free Roku 3 player …
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Scott Dance / Baltimore Sun:
AOL completes $248M acquisition of mobile advertising technology company Millennial Media — AOL closes deal to absorb Millennial Media … Millennial Media disappeared from the New York Stock Exchange on Friday after a majority of its stockholders tendered their shares to AOL …
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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Sources: Disney nears deal that would give it small direct stake in Vice Media — Disney near deal to buy a stake in Vice Media — Vice Media is getting another big media backer as it prepares to launch a major TV offensive, The Post has learned. — Disney is poised to take a small stake …
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