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11:20 AM ET, February 11, 2016

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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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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 …
Sean O'Kane / The Verge:
Quartz launches iPhone app with curated news delivered as text messages and push notifications  —  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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
How Facebook and Google dominate digital advertising, and why other tech companies struggle  —  The Reality of Missing Out  —  When it comes to ad-supported services, pundits everywhere are fond of the adage “If you're not the customer you're the product”.
Discussion: Street Fight
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Newsweek lifts paywall, retains digital subscription for exclusive and early access to current issue  —  Newsweek Is Dropping Its Paywall  —  The Magazine Isn't Dropping Digital Subscriptions, However  —  How Successful Marketers Prepare for the Holidays
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.
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 Reports Mixed Quarterly Results Due to Movie Flops  —  Box office bombs like “Pan” and “In the Heart of the Sea” weighed down Time Warner's fiscal fourth quarter …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
HBO Now has 800K paying subscribers 10 months after launch, short of predicted 1-2M subs
 
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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
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
BBC and Kenyan startup Ongair create BBC Drop, a personalized news app for Africa, Android only for now
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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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