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4:50 PM ET, February 11, 2016

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Time Inc Acquires Viant, Owner Of Myspace And A Vast Ad Tech Network  —  It looks like Myspace is becoming a big-media property once again.  Today during its quarterly earnings report, Time Inc announced that it has acquired Viant, a profitable company that has built a large ad tech business …
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New York Times:
Sources: Pandora has held preliminary discussions about selling itself; shares halted briefly  —  Pandora Is Said to Have Held Talks About Selling Itself  —  Pandora Media, the largest Internet radio service, has held discussions about selling the company, according to people briefed on the talks.
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TechCrunch:
Pandora Has Mixed Q4 Earnings With $336M Revenue And 3.8% Growth To 81.1M Listeners  —  Amidst rumors that it's trying to sell itself, Pandora missed on its Q4 2015 earnings report where it said it had 81.1 million listeners, up from 78.1 million in Q3 but down from 81.5 million a year ago.
Discussion: Pandora
Sean O'Kane / The Verge:
Quartz's new iPhone app uses a chat interface and push notifications to deliver curated news stories  —  Quartz's new app wants to text you the news  —  For a brief moment during development, the first app from Quartz — the four-year-old business news publication owned by The Atlantic …
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Twitter's problem isn't that it stopped growing; it's that people expect it to keep growing  —  Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions  —  Twitter is the world's most important social network.  —  That might sound like the ravings of an addict …
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TechCrunch:
Twitter reports 320M total MAUs, no change from previous quarter, quarterly revenue up 48% YoY to $710M, meeting expectations
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google to expand right-to-be-forgotten link removal to all domains when viewed from EU  —  Google To Remove Right-To-Be-Forgotten Links Worldwide, For Searchers In European Countries  —  Google plans to censor European “Right To Be Forgotten” links on sites worldwide …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump settles with Univision over Miss USA Pageant  —  Donald Trump and Univision have settled the lawsuit that arose when Univision dumped Trump's Miss USA pageant telecast.  —  “The terms of the settlement are confidential,” the two sides said in an announcement Thursday afternoon.
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Publishers see improved revenue from Instant Articles after changes to ad policies; some now generate same amount per view as their own mobile sites  —  Facebook's Instant Articles Advertising Fixes Win Over Publishers  —  It's getting easier to generate ad revenue from the platform, publishers say
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Thomson Reuters to auction IP and science unit, reports $417M net income on $3.14B revenue for Q4  —  Thomson Reuters to auction IP and science business  —  Thomson Reuters has put its intellectual property and science business up for sale in an auction that analysts say could fetch $3bn …
Discussion: Reuters
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Trinity Mirror's new aggregation app Perspecs offers 10 stories each day with three different perspectives on each story  —  ‘Three sides to every story’: Behind Trinity Mirror's news-aggregation app  —  When launching a mobile news app, publishers don't usually start by aggregating other publishers' news.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A profile of Pacific Content and how it creates branded podcasts without ads for companies  —  Pacific Content's podcasts are all sponsored by companies — but at least there aren't any ads  —  To Steve Pratt, one of the biggest benefits of branded podcasts is that they don't contain advertising.
Discussion: RAIN News
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Media buyers push for a common platform across TV networks to target viewers based on collective data amid fears of major companies erecting walled gardens  —  As TV Gets Its Data On, Walled Garden Problem Looms  —  Media buyers push for common platform across networks for data-driven ad targeting
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Dish to disable DVR ad-skip for 7 days after broadcast to resolve Fox suit  —  No precedent on consumers' right to stream content they already paid for.  —  Fox and Dish have settled a years-long copyright dispute over several Dish viewing features, including the Hopper ad-skipping DVR …
Discussion: Variety, Deadline, Reuters and FierceCable
 
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Washington Post launches Re-Engage feature that provides personalized recommendations when mobile users stop engaging with content on article pages
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
How Facebook and Google dominate digital advertising, and why other tech companies struggle
Discussion: Street Fight
Ashley Armstrong / Telegraph:
Johnston Press says it is in advanced talks to buy the i newspaper for £24M, deal would create the UK's fourth largest print publisher
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
An email newsletter aimed at college students joins over 40 existing New York Times newsletters
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Facebook debuts auto-captioning for video ads, says having captions can increase video view time by 12%
Discussion: Ad Age, Facebook, MediaPost and Adweek
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
Discussion: CNNMoney and The Wrap
 

 
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds

Financial Times:
Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its valuation a few months ago; SpaceX prepares a tender offer that would value the company at $250B+

Jibin Joseph / PCMag:
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time
 
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