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Sources: Pandora has held preliminary discussions about selling itself — 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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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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Time Inc. Q4: revenue down 2% to $877M on profit of $17M; digital ad revenue up 17% YoY to $102M; print and other ad sales down 6.6% to $328M — Time Inc. Reports Profit Decline but Gives Optimistic Sales Guidance — Magazine publisher to acquire marketing firm Viant, owner of MySpace
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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 …
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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.
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Jonathan Shorman / Topeka Capital-Journal:
KU student newspaper sues administrators, alleging funding cuts after critical editorial — Administration signed off on cut to fees for The University Daily Kansan — The student newspaper at the University of Kansas sued KU administrators Friday, alleging they approved funding cuts …
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
CBS meets Q4 estimates with net earnings of $251M on $3.9B in revenue, driven by licensing and distribution — CBS Reports Record Fourth Quarter Revenue — Network ad sales up 8% — CBS reported record revenues during the fourth quarter. — Net earnings were $261 million …
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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
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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Twitter reports 320M total MAUs, no change from previous quarter, quarterly revenue up 48% YoY to $710M, meeting expectations
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Viacom bets on new hires for MTV News, including Jamil Smith from The New Republic, to revive the network's brand — Viacom Reboots MTV News in First Step Toward Reviving Network — MTV may be about to invoke memories of Kurt Loder and Tabitha Soren. — At MTV, those two correspondents …
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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 …
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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 …
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