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Netflix expands to 130 new countries including India, Vietnam, Turkey, South Korea, Poland, and Russia, but not China; stock up over 5% — Netflix officially arrives in India, Russia, Vietnam and more - totaling 130 new countries — At the opening keynote at CES, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings …
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The Wall Street Journal becomes 19th publisher and first US newspaper to get a spot on Snapchat's US Discover and will post eight items each weekday — The Wall Street Journal is the first American newspaper to get a spot on Snapchat Discover — The Wall Street Journal became …
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As Twitter weighs a longer character count, users reiterate preference for an edit function — Edit Tweets? Users Debate a Missing Twitter Feature — Never mind longer tweets, many Twitter users are saying. What about an editing function? — After reports on Tuesday that Twitter …
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Twitter's “Beyond 140” feature is a plan to host content inside its walled garden, instead of linking to blogs and other websites — Twitter Isn't Raising the Character Limit. It's Becoming a Walled Garden. — Tweeters are freaking out—again—about another report that Twitter …
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MLive Media Group in Michigan cuts 29 content positions across state, primarily in management and newspaper production — Cuts coming to MLive, 2016 edition — ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, January 6, 2016. Columbia Journalism Review's Anna Clark broke the news of cuts at MLive to journalist jobs there, in this post on Twitter.
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Egypt to try 6 reporters for allegedly defaming minister — CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian prosecutor has referred six local journalists to trial for allegedly spreading “false news” that defamed the justice minister. — Prosecutor Fathy Bayoumi said Wednesday that the six were sent to court …


Report: total global media spending to rise 5% each year for the next five years, print newspapers and magazines to decline as digital takes over — Books and newspapers will do just fine in 2016. Magazines? Not so much — The reign of the consumer magazine—glossy, beautiful …
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As problems persist with new distributor, Boston Globe rehires old distributor to handle some newspaper routes — Globe splits deliveries between two companies — After more than a week of confounding problems getting newspapers to subscribers, The Boston Globe has turned …
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US consumers bought 241.4M albums last year, down 6% from 2014, streamed 317.2B songs, nearly double that of 2014 — Adele Album Resists the Streaming Trend in Music Sales — For the last few years, the prevailing theme in the recorded music business has been that CD and download sales …
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Sony to launch 4K video streaming service Ultra in US this year, will bring Sony content to Bravia TVs — Sony to launch 4K streaming service in US this year — Sony will launch a 4K video streaming service in the U.S. this year, seeking to give consumers access to more content to watch on 4K TVs.
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Twitter misses deadline to pay $50K fine for hosting what Turkey's telecoms regulator defined as terrorist propaganda — Twitter misses deadline to pay Turkey's $50,000 terrorist propaganda fine — Twitter has missed the deadline for paying a $50,000 fine imposed on it by the Turkish government …
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Interview with Steve Patrizi, Imgur's vice president of marketing and revenue, on how the image-sharing site plans to make money with Promoted Posts — How Imgur is taking on Facebook and Twitter as ‘geek culture’ goes mainstream — Imgur, which began in 2009 as a university side project …