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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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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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Wall Street Journal:
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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WWD, Time Inc., Reuters, Reuters, Benzinga, Wallstreet.org, MarketWatch and Talking New Media
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 — 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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New York Times, Forbes, TechCrunch, USA Today, Fast Company, Fortune, @carlquintanilla, @film_girl, @sarahfrier, Mashable, Business Insider, Digital Trends, Ad Age, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, @mathewi, Reuters, The Wrap, @arjunbasu, AdExchanger, @carnage4life, @gungnirdev, @oliyoung, @jyarow, Financial Times, @jamesrbuk, @sarahfrier, @jandawson, @benedictevans, @jguynn, @sarahfrier, Twitter, Business Insider and VentureBeat
Mark Scott / New York Times:
Source: Google to expand right-to-be-forgotten link removal to all domains when viewed from EU, starting February — Google Will Further Block Some European Search Results — Google is about to change how people view its search results in Europe. — The American technology giant …
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BBC, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Reuters, Street Fight, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, ValueWalk, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, Search Engine Land and Engadget
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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Mediaite, Deadline, The Wrap, Reuters, The Hill, Washington Times, Hollywood Reporter, Talking Points Memo and Variety
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.
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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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Columbia Journalism Review, The Lawrence Journal-World, KCUR and Lebanon Daily Record
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
Leo Barraclough / Variety:
NBCUniversal launches Hayu, a reality TV subscription video-on-demand service in UK, Ireland, and Australia for £4, €5, and A$6 per month — NBCUniversal Launches Reality Streaming Service Hayu in U.K., Ireland, Australia — NBCUniversal Intl. has launched Hayu …
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Hollywood Reporter, RadioTimes, Telecompaper, Digital TV Europe, NEWS.com.au, Digital Spy, Gizmodo Australia and Guardian
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.