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2:50 PM ET, March 30, 2016

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Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
Genius adds “report abuse” button and says the web annotation tool does not enable abuse, in response to controversy and letter from US Rep. Katherine Clark  —  Genius responds to Congresswoman Katherine Clark's letter on preventing abuse  —  Over the past few days …
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Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Annotation Startup Genius to Launch Advertising Business  —  Company known for its music lyric database hires first revenue chief  —  Genius, the music-lyric storehouse and budding Web annotation platform, has accumulated millions of visitors and a stockpile of venture capital cash.
Discussion: Digiday and FishbowlNY
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Inside the launch of Bloomberg's new tech-and-travel series Hello World, and Bloomberg's plans for two more web series to launch within weeks  —  Bloomberg's Hello World tech-and-travel show trades talking heads for Vice-like filmmaking  —  For Bloomberg, making video for the web means rethinking everything …
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
UK's Times and Sunday Times merge websites, which will be updated three times a day to focus on reporting, opinion, and analysis instead of breaking news  —  The Times of London is swearing off breaking news  —  British national newspaper The Times has been behind a hard paywall since 2010.
Philip Oltermann / Guardian:
Academic journal: Associated Press entered into two-way cooperation with Nazis in order to retain access, allowed regime access to photo archive for propaganda  —  Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis  —  Exclusive: German historian shows how news agency retained access …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Spotify raises $1B in convertible debt, led by TPG and Dragoneer  —  Spotify Raises $1 Billion in Debt Financing  —  TPG and Dragoneer Investment Group lead the Spotify debt deal  —  Music-streaming site Spotify AB has raised $1 billion in convertible debt from investors …
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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Obama calls for better journalism but has contributed to problems with jail threats, subpoenas, stonewalling of FOIA, and end runs around traditional media
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Fullscreen to launch streaming service April 26, featuring 800 hours of content, including programming from YouTube stars and older TV series for $5 per month  —  Fullscreen Enters Crowded Subscription Video Marketplace  —  Digital media company believes young fans will pay $4.99 a month for Web originals featuring YouTube stars
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
New York Times won't retract or post a correction to NFL story  —  The New York Times will not retract a story about the National Football League's research into player concussions that also suggested ties bettwen the NFL and the tobacco industry.  —  A lawyer for the league demanded …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh and his assistant sentenced to prison in Hanoi in renewed push against independent media and free expression  —  Vietnamese Bloggers Sentenced to Prison in a Renewed Crackdown on Free Expression  —  A prominent Vietnamese blogger and his assistant …
Discussion: bangkokpost.com
Gederts Gelzis / Reuters:
Latvia shuts down pro-Kremlin website Sputnik, drawing Moscow rebuke  —  Latvian authorities have shut down the local version of Russian pro-Kremlin news website Sputnik, drawing an immediate rebuke from Moscow.  —  The Latvian domain of the Russian-owned news site Sputniknews.lv was shut …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Yahoo to skip lavish NewFront event this year, host private event May 4 amid losses in video  —  Yahoo Scales Back NewFronts Event With Smaller, Less Flashy Affair  —  Yahoo is cutting back on the NewFronts razzle-dazzle this year, after the company pulled the plug on long-form original series and refocuses its media strategy.
 
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Dan Rys / Billboard:
Tidal claims 3M paying global subs, with 1.35M on the hi-fidelity $20/month tier, and Kanye West's last album surpassed 250M streams within 10 days of debut
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Instagram increases video length limit for users from 15 seconds up to 60 seconds, part of a greater expansion into video for the social network
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Sony to launch 4K movie streaming service, Ultra, on April 4; titles to sell for $30 and won't be available for rental
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SoundCloud launches SoundCloud Go music subscription service for $9.99 per month in US
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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