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Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Yahoo scraps Alibaba spinoff plan, will spin off core assets including stake in Yahoo Japan; Max Levchin resigns from board — Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo said on Wednesday that it had dropped a plan to spin off its $31 billion stake in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company.
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CBS CEO Les Moonves says Apple puts live TV plans on hold; source says media firms want more money for their programming — Apple Said to Suspend Effort to Develop Live TV Service — Focus instead will be on App Store as platform for others — Media companies resist channel package at $30 to $40 a month
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Oliver Darcy / The Blaze:
Leaked Memo: BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief Says It's ‘Entirely Fair’ to Call Trump a ‘Mendacious Racist’ — BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief Ben Smith wrote in an email to his editorial staff Tuesday that calling Republican frontrunner Donald Trump a racist on social media does not violate the company's ethics guidelines.
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Arianna Huffington announces The Huffington Post will no longer relegate Trump to its entertainment section, noting his impact on other candidates
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Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Spotify to test allowing some musicians to temporarily withhold music from ad-supported version of the service — Spotify to Allow Some Musicians to Withhold Music From Free Service — Last year Taylor Swift pulled her entire catalog from Spotify because the streaming service …
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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook changes advertising policies for Instant Articles to allow publishers to include more advertising in each article and to sell Facebook-only campaigns — Facebook Bends to Publishers, Tweaks Instant Articles Advertising — Publishers said restrictions made it too hard for them to generate revenue
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The Whip
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Diane Rehm, host of her self-titled news show that aired nationally on NPR for two decades, plans to retire after 2016 election — Diane Rehm, an NPR staple, eyes retirement from broadcasting — Diane Rehm, the host of one of public radio's longest-running and most popular news discussion programs …
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Tribune Media Invests $25 Million in Dose and OMGFacts — Venture founded by Emerson Spartz specializes in identifying, creating viral content — Emerson Spartz began his media career with the Harry Potter blog he created at the age of 12. Fast forward 16 years and he is still channeling …
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Robert Channick / Los Angeles Times:
Eli Broad: No deal in works to buy Los Angeles Times — The Los Angeles Times buiding and the former Times Mirror Square in a view from the Los Angeles city hall observation deck. — Addressing rumors fueled by a tweet from media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Los Angeles investor Eli Broad said …
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Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap:
Mashable to Distribute First Feature Film “CodeGirl” — Mashable and FilmBuff are partnering to distribute and promote the documentary “CodeGirl,” written and directed by Lesley Chilcott, on Mashable and the social news site's AppleTV app. — “CodeGirl” chronicles teams of high school girls around …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Time Out to cut about 40 staff in UK and US — Listings title aims to focus on digital as it becomes a global multimedia business — Time Out is to cut about 40 staff at its UK and US operations as part of a strategic refocus of the listings magazine into a global multimedia business.
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Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times:
ESports video streamer Azubu gets nearly $60 million in debt sale — Azubu is competing with Twitch and YouTube to be the go-to app for watching people compete in video games. — Azubu Inc. is taking on Twitch and YouTube. Those two huge online distributors of video about video games have deep pockets.
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Duncan Robinson / Financial Times:
Brussels explores a ‘snippet tax’ that would hit Google News — Google faces another regulatory confrontation with Brussels after the European Commission said it will examine whether services such as Google News should pay newspapers for displaying snippets of their articles.
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