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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.
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Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski charged with simple battery for grabbing ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields — Trump campaign manager charged with battery — Corey Lewandowski faces a misdemeanor charge related to incident with former Breitbart reporter.
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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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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 — “With video on the web, the most important thing is that you meet the audience eye to eye.”
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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.
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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 — Obama Criticizes the Media, but His Administration Is Part of the Problem — It's hard to imagine a politician loving …
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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 …
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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
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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 — Instagram Is Expanding Videos to 60 Seconds — The Facebook-owned photo app is placing a bigger emphasis on video this year.
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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 — Tidal Claims Three Million Global Subscribers, Finally Releases Kanye's ‘Pablo’ Stream Numbers — The one-year anniversary …
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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 …
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