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8:10 AM ET, February 11, 2016

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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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Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
Twitter Will Now Put Recommended (Not Newest) Tweets At the Top Of Your Timeline  —  If Twitter is going to fix its growth problem, it's going to have to make some drastic moves — and, with an update today, that means even changing the timeline.  —  Twitter today is unveiling a new Twitter timeline …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
HBO Now has 800K paying subscribers 10 months after launch, short of predicted 1-2M subs  —  HBO NOW, The Network's Streaming Service For Cord Cutters, Has Just 800,000 Subscribers  —  HBO NOW may have scored as one of last year's top streaming apps in terms of revenue …
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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
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 …
Discussion: Wired and Quartz
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 …
Associated Press:
Journalist kidnapped in southern Mexico found dead  —  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A reporter who was kidnapped by armed assailants in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz this week has been found dead, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.  —  Anabel Flores Salazar's body was discovered on a highway …
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
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge lets actor James Woods proceed with suit against anonymous Twitter user who called him a cocaine addict  —  James Woods Gets Judge's Nod to Pursue Man Who Tweeted He Was a “Cocaine Addict”  —  The judge makes a stunning reversal, denying the anonymous defendant's attempt to kill the lawsuit.
Discussion: @realjameswoods
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
An email newsletter aimed at college students joins over 40 existing New York Times newsletters  —  The New York Times has a new email newsletter aimed at college students  —  The New York Times this week has launched a new email newsletter aimed at college students that will feature …
Mike McPhate / New York Times:
Newspaper adviser fired at Mount St. Mary's University in Maryland after controversial article  —  Newspaper Adviser Is Fired After Students' Scoop Roils Maryland Campus  —  When student reporters at Mount St. Mary's University, a small Catholic institution in Maryland …
Pui-Wing Tam / New York Times:
NYT ends its tech blog, Bits, will continue its Bits email newsletter, special sections, and daily reports  —  A New Look and Feel for Bits  —  For nearly a decade, one way The New York Times has shared the story of the technology industry and its impact on our lives has been through a blog called Bits.
Discussion: Nieman Lab, @tcarmody and @mathewi
 
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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
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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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Study finds BBC dominated online news in 2015 with 30% traffic share and 18.9B page views, 3x more than its closest competitor msn.com with 5.6B
Discussion: @similarweb
Guardian:
Telegraph Media Group enlists Deloitte for strategic review
 

 
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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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