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Twitter reports 320M total MAUs, no change from previous quarter, quarterly revenue up 48% YoY to $710M, meeting expectations — Twitter's User Growth Goes Nowhere As It Meets Revenue Expectations Of $710M — Twitter today reported its fourth-quarter earnings — one of the most important quarters …
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Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
Twitter Will Now Put Recommended (Not Newest) Tweets At the Top Of Your Timeline — If Twitter is going to fix its growth problem, it's going to have to make some drastic moves — and, with an update today, that means even changing the timeline. — Twitter today is unveiling a new Twitter timeline …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
HBO Now has 800K paying subscribers 10 months after launch, short of predicted 1-2M subs — HBO NOW, The Network's Streaming Service For Cord Cutters, Has Just 800,000 Subscribers — HBO NOW may have scored as one of last year's top streaming apps in terms of revenue …
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Brent Lang / Variety:
Time Warner Q4: misses estimates with revenue down 6% YoY to $7.1B; HBO revenue up 6% to $1.4B; Warner Bros. down 13% to $3.3B
Time Warner Q4: misses estimates with revenue down 6% YoY to $7.1B; HBO revenue up 6% to $1.4B; Warner Bros. down 13% to $3.3B
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Associated Press:
Journalist kidnapped in southern Mexico found dead — MEXICO CITY (AP) — A reporter who was kidnapped by armed assailants in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz this week has been found dead, Mexican authorities said Tuesday. — Anabel Flores Salazar's body was discovered on a highway …
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Committee to Protect …, Daily Mail, The Tico Times, PRI, @raju, Lawyer Herald, Amnesty International USA, Democracy Now, telesurtv.net and VICE News
Mike McPhate / New York Times:
Newspaper adviser fired at Mount St. Mary's University in Maryland after controversial article — Newspaper Adviser Is Fired After Students' Scoop Roils Maryland Campus — When student reporters at Mount St. Mary's University, a small Catholic institution in Maryland …
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Washington Post, @willmcavoyacn, Student Press Law Center, The Rural Blog, ThinkProgress, @asimendinger and @byrontau
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge lets actor James Woods proceed with suit against anonymous Twitter user who called him a cocaine addict — James Woods Gets Judge's Nod to Pursue Man Who Tweeted He Was a “Cocaine Addict” — The judge makes a stunning reversal, denying the anonymous defendant's attempt to kill the lawsuit.
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Pui-Wing Tam / New York Times:
NYT ends its tech blog, Bits, will continue its Bits email newsletter, special sections, and daily reports — A New Look and Feel for Bits — For nearly a decade, one way The New York Times has shared the story of the technology industry and its impact on our lives has been through a blog called Bits.
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Nieman Lab, @tcarmody and @mathewi
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Political reporting focusing on predictions instead of issues produces often-wrong conclusions — Political Reporters Know Nothing — I just got back from several days in New Hampshire, attending political rallies across the state and observing thousands of voters in their natural habitat.
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@nickriccardi, @ryanlcooper, @yesevamoore, @nickconfessore, @olivianuzzi and @jonathanshainin
Áine Kerr / Storyful Blog:
Storyful Managing Editor Aine Kerr to become Facebook's manager of journalism partnerships — Storyful's Managing Editor on Moving on to the Next Challenge — Nothing can prepare you for the psychological torment and raw adrenaline that comes with joining a scrappy startup.
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Storyful Blog, Reuters and @jimbrady
Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
First Look Media Keeps Building, Adds Comics Site The Nib to Stable of Web Properties — First Look Media, the digital media company funded by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, has been slowly adding properties and growing its business since launching in 2013.
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First Look Media, @jeremyscahill, @jessesingal and @mattbors
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Facebook debuts auto-captioning for video ads, says having captions can increase video view time by 12% — Facebook wants advertisers to get a lot better at silent video — People are now watching 100 million hours of video on Facebook every day — but many of those users …
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AdExchanger, Forbes, Ad Age, Adweek, International Business Times and Marketing Land
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
BBC and Kenyan startup Ongair create BBC Drop, a personalized news app for Africa, Android only for now — The BBC pilots a mobile-friendly website with content tailored to young African audiences — Swipe to skip, swipe to like, swipe to share: these are the familiar smartphone motions …