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Twitter says it has suspended 125K accounts for promoting or threatening terrorist acts since mid-2015 — Twitter Steps Up Efforts to Thwart Terrorists' Tweets — For years, Twitter has positioned itself as a “global town square” that is open to discourse from all.
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Twitter To Introduce Algorithmic Timeline As Soon As Next Week — Say hello to a brand new Twitter. The company is planning to introduce an algorithmic timeline as soon as next week, BuzzFeed News has learned. — The timeline will reorder tweets based on what Twitter's algorithm thinks people …
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LinkedIn will stop selling ads on other sites, an offering launched after its $175M purchase of Bizo in 2014 — LinkedIn Shuts Down Its Ad Network 12 Months After It Opened — Overall Ad Business Only Accounted for 21% of Q4 2015 Revenue — Sponsored Webcast
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PayPal stops taking payments for UnoTelly VPN and SmartDNS service, saying service can be used to bypass copyright law — PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services — PayPal is widely known for their aggressive stance towards BitTorrent sites, Usenet providers and file-hosting services …
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Verizon updates go90 video app to exempt it from data caps for customers not on prepaid plan — Verizon just blatantly betrayed net neutrality by excluding its video app from data caps — The FCC's net neutrality rules, passed last year, explicitly ban internet providers from a number …
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The Conversation expands across the U.S., freshly funded by universities and foundations — January was a good month for The Conversation U.S. (TCUS), the American edition of the nonprofit site first launched in Australia as a platform seeking to offer in-depth, reliable takes on the news cycle.
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What a $5 million Super Bowl ad can buy you in digital media (tl;dr: a lot) — Every year, marketing pundit-types ask themselves the question: “Is the Super Bowl worth it?” And when the price tag is $5 million for 30-seconds of airtime, it's a pretty good question — especially …
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Forbes, Adweek and AdExchanger
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Al Jazeera launches live audio streaming service for mobile-first audiences — The web application is primarily aimed at people in the Middle East, Africa and South-East Asia, where video news consumption is limited by poor internet connectivity — A new audio streaming service …
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@niemanlab, @mohamed and Al Jazeera English
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USTelecom drops out of coalition formed to challenge Charter-TWC merger, saying it doesn't oppose merger but suggested some conditions — USTelecom Exits Coalition Challenging Charter-Time Warner Cable Merger — USTelecom, an association representing broadband providers …
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Broadcasting & Cable
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In SEC filing, Lions Gate discloses interest in merging with cable network Starz — Lions Gate to Explore Combination With Starz — Lions Gate Entertainment said it has rekindled merger talks with Starz, a year after cable mogul John Malone set the table for a tie up.
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Publishing company Visual Editions and Google Australia create immersive, interactive ebooks for mobile — The Future of Books Could Be Somewhere Between a Game and an App — In the not so distant future, reading might feel more like a cross between gaming and watching a film.
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Some new writers for Bustle face a probing survey asking about sensitive topics including trauma, sex, and medical issues — Bustle and the Industrialization of Confession — Imagine you just started at a new job. You work remotely and have never met your boss in person.