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Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed withdraws from SXSW after two panels related to gaming and online harassment were cancelled due to threats of violence — BuzzFeed To Withdraw From SXSW Over Canceled Gaming Panels — BuzzFeed plans to withdraw its participation from the South by Southwest Interactive festival …
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South by Southwest …, South by Southwest …, The Daily Beast, Mashable, The Verge, Re/code, The Open Gaming Society, Fast Company, Adweek, The Verge, Guardian, Forbes, 89.3 KPCC, NBC News, Jezebel, Tech Insider, Wall Street Journal, UPROXX, @nick_hanover, Digital Spy, @femfreq, Polygon, @whenindoubtdo, mUmBRELLA, Business Insider, ThinkProgress, @angryblacklady, New York Times, @cindygallop, @waxpancake, @losowsky, @sabrina, @srhbutts, @jguynn, @lauriesegallcnn, @miriamelder, The Next Web and Engadget
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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Vox Media and The Verge will not attend SXSW unless it takes harassment seriously — After the organizers of the SXSW conference canceled an anti-harassment panel due to alleged Gamergate-related “threats of violence,” Vox Media is reevaluating its participation in the SXSW conference.
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Salon, BuzzFeed, @drance, 89.3 KPCC, @imericschneider, Polygon and Tech Insider
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Lena Dunham teams up with Hearst Magazines to monetize Lenny Letter — Before “Girls” creator Lena Dunham became the latest celebrity to launch a newsletter, she hinted that it would eventually be accompanied by some form of advertising. — Nearly a month after the debut of Lenny Letter …
James Vincent / The Verge:
European Parliament rejects amendments protecting net neutrality — The EU has rejected legal amendments that would firmly protect the concept of net neutrality in Europe. The European Parliament voted in favor of the new regulation which proponents says establish an internet …
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EU Press Room, Ars Technica UK, Julia Reda, Gizmodo UK, DSLreports, Techdirt, TechCrunch, BBC, Guardian, Wired.co.uk and Pixel Envy
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter reports 320M MAUs in Q3, an increase of just 4M, and EPS of $0.10 against $0.05 expected; stock down over 10% on lower revenue guidance — Twitter Stock Tanks on Stagnant User Growth, Lowered Expectations — Twitter's user growth has clearly started to slow down, and that continues to hurt the business.
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Fast Company, The Verge, Forbes, Twitter, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, SFist, Pocket-lint, Gigaom, ZDNet, Variety, New York Times, Marketing Land and AdExchanger
Kristen V. Brown / Fusion:
Profile of Milo Yiannopoulos, who trolls online and charms in person, raising provocative questions — The ultimate troll: The terrifying allure of GamerGate icon Milo Yiannopoulos — Perhaps the most shocking thing about Milo Yiannopoulos is that he is utterly charming.
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@kristenvbrown, @devindra and BREITBART.COM
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New York Times Company:
The New York Times Company Names Nick Rockwell Chief Technology Officer — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— The New York Times Company today announced that Nick Rockwell has been named chief technology officer, effective November 16. Mr. Rockwell will be responsible for all technology operations …
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Politico, Media Wire Daily, FishbowlNY, WWD, Poynter and Cision
R. Blake Paterson / The Crimson:
Harvard gets two new student-run online publications, The Tab and Once Daily, a site publishing one must-read story a day — Students Launch Two New Online Publications — As editors of traditional news outlets nationwide debate industry “disruption” and new web outlets crop up every day …
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@romenesko
Ben Williams / Adblock Plus and (a little) more:
Axel Springer serves Adblock Plus website with court papers, demanding they remove forum posts on how to get around Bild's ad block blockade — Smells like censorship, Big Brother — Many of you may be familiar with the fact that Axel Springer, the multi-gazillion-dollar media magnate …
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Digiday
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Paris-based music streaming service Deezer to postpone its $343M IPO indefinitely, cites market conditions — Loss-Making Music Service Deezer Postpones $343M IPO, Citing Market Conditions — Call it the Pandora effect? The problems of the streaming music model? The crush of competition from Apple Music?
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@mathewi and Wall Street Journal
Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Google brings podcasting to Play Music's free and paid tiers, to be available to listeners in a few weeks — Google Brings Podcasting to Play Music, Swinging at Apple's Dominance — From their earliest days, podcasts were linked closely to Apple. Their very name came from an Apple product: iPod.
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Official Android Blog, @mhbergen, Mashable, Android Police, @mlieber, Gizmodo, The Next Web, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, The Verge, Ars Technica UK and Engadget
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter turns to TV ads to increase reach; advertisements debut tonight during World Series — This is Twitter's first television ad campaign — This month Twitter unveiled Moments, the simplified way of browsing tweets that the company hopes will return it to rapid growth.
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TechCrunch, Fortune, @twitter, @lanceulanoff, Marketing Land and @mountpajamaja
Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
Gawker's New Editor Is Alex Pareene, Formerly of First Look and Salon — Despite talk of making Gawker “20 percent nicer,” the newly appointed editor of Gawker.com is an old name — Alex Pareene. — In a memo today, Gawker Media Executive Editor John Cook announced that Pareene …
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Politico, New York Times, FishbowlNY, @leahbeckmann, @samfbiddle, @daveweigel, @pareene and @dangillmor