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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Verizon Wireless to begin selling data cap exemptions to content providers January 25 with beta trial of its new FreeBee Data 360 service — Verizon Wireless selling data cap exemptions to content providers — Video, music, app downloads, and ads can be exempted from caps for a fee.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
The Guardian appoints AOL UK's Hamish Nicklin as chief revenue officer — Former Google executive to be responsible for Guardian News & Media's advertising revenues, its jobs operation and its branded content division — The Guardian has appointed Hamish Nicklin, the managing director …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Starbucks Now Lets You Save The Songs You Heard In-Store To Spotify — Starbucks and streaming service Spotify are expanding their relationship today with the launch of a new digital music experience for Starbucks customers which will allow them to identify songs being played in stores …
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Andrew Giambrone / City Desk:
Washington Post apologizes in detailed editor's note for reporter copying parts of articles from Government Executive website — Post Reporter Lifts Passages from Government Executive Articles — Washington Post reporter Lisa Rein, who covers federal government issues …
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
Netflix Q4: revenue of $1.82B, $43M in profit, 5.59M net new subscribers with 4.04M internationally; stock up 7% after hours — Netflix whizzes past 75 million subscribers thanks to record international growth — Netflix share price is up more than 121 percent in the last year.
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Gerardo Reyes / Washington Post:
Director of Univision's investigative unit Gerardo Reyes declined to interview El Chapo after he asked for editorial control — Why I turned down an interview with ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán — Univision said no, but Sean Penn said yes. — In September 2013, a confidential source acting …
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Brendan James / International Business Times:
Gawker seeks outside funding to fortify finances ahead of Hulk Hogan trial, plans Thursday meeting to ask shareholders to OK new class of shares — Gawker Media Is On The Hunt For Outside Investor Cash — Gawker Media is seeking funding from outside investors and calling an …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Nielsen to add Facebook discussions to its Twitter TV Ratings, to be renamed “Social Content Rankings”, eventually will include Instagram — Nielsen Wants to Watch You Talk to Your Facebook Friends About What You Watch on TV — It is a little hard to remember now …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
After Cancelling Its IPO, Deezer Raises Another $109M From Access And Orange — Deezer, the Paris-based music and other audio streaming service with 6.3 million users that planned but ultimately cancelled an IPO last year, has now tapped existing investors for more funding …
Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
BBC journalist with British-Iranian nationality stopped from flying to US following recent legislation disallowing some dual citizens to use visa waiver program — BBC journalist stopped from flying to US over UK-Iranian nationality — Rana Rahimpour caught by new legislation …
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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Agence France Presse to open bureau in North Korea, will join Associated Press, Japan's Kyodo, and China's Xinhua in having a permanent base in Pyongyang — Agence France Presse to open bureau in North Korea — AFP to join Associated Press, Japan's Kyodo and China's Xinhua in Pyongyang
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
As Facebook changes its algorithms, publishers like Elite Daily who count on it for traffic try to follow by shifting resources to video — Viral publishers, seeing fewer Facebook clicks, shift focus to video — The era of the viral Facebook post that generates a flood of traffic is winding down for Facebook-dependent publishers.
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