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2:40 PM ET, February 11, 2016

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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 …
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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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
New York Times:
Sources: Pandora has held discussions about selling itself; shares halted  —  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.
Discussion: Variety
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.
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 …
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
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.
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 …
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
 
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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
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
An email newsletter aimed at college students joins over 40 existing New York Times newsletters
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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 and Adweek
 

 
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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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