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6:25 PM ET, April 19, 2016

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Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
Yahoo reports Q1 revenue of $1.087B, slightly higher than expectations but still down 12% YoY  —  Yahoo earnings: 8 cents per share, vs expected EPS of 7 cents  —  Yahoo announced earnings and revenue Tuesday that slightly topped analyst estimates.  —  The company said it saw adjusted …
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo bidders include Verizon, TPG, and Bain Capital paired with Vista Equity Partners, which involves multiple former Yahoo execs including Ross Levinsohn  —  Yahoo bidders are few and far between, but include Verizon, TPG and a gang of exes  —  As Yahoo prepares to release what is widely expected …
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers:
New York Daily News fires editor who deleted attribution on Shaun King columns  —  #BREAK: Statement from New York Daily News editor Jim Rich regarding @ShaunKing situation >>pic.twitter.com/4KJu7PihAN
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Newsletter theSkimm introduces new subscription service, Skimm Ahead, an iPhone app that costs $2.99 a month, adds event reminders to your calendar  —  Email Newsletter Startup theSkimm Rolls Out Paid Subscription Product  —  New iPhone app will automatically place big news and cultural events on people's digital calendars
New York Times:
How media and entertainment companies are expanding into VR, through investment in VR startups and VR-based news projects  —  Virtual Reality Lures Media Companies to a New Frontier  —  Media and entertainment companies want to help shape the next entertainment platform: virtual reality.
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Debra Birnbaum / Variety:
NPR, This American Life, and HBO among Peabody Award winners  —  ‘Real Sports,’ ‘This American Life’ Among Peabody Awards Winners … “This American Life's” exploration of desegregation and HBO's “Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel's” investigation of the ivory trade are among the winners …
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Paid A Breitbart Editor For Consulting Work  —  Donald Trump's campaign paid the site's national security editor, Sebastian Gorka, $8,000 for “policy consulting” last year.  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's campaign paid Breitbart News national security editor Sebastian Gorka $8,000 for …
Joshua David Stein / Guardian:
New York Observer's food critic Joshua David Stein resigns, following its endorsement of Trump  —  When the New York Observer endorsed Donald Trump, I had to resign  —  I was the restaurant critic.  I could have carried on writing about crudités and borscht.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Netflix promises 100 hours of HDR programming by August, more by 2017  —  Netflix just announced plans to introduce more high dynamic range (HDR)-quality videos to its library this year.  —  Though we already knew Netflix had big plans on the HDR front and that it had recently upgraded the first season of …
D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
Tribune Publishing buys Splash magazine from the Sun-Times  —  The former editor of Splash, Susanna Homan, had already resigned and moved to Tribune to be editor/publisher of the Tribune-owned Chicago magazine  —  Tribune Publishing has a newish boss, Michael Ferro, who used to be the big wig at the Sun-Times.
David Pierce / Wired:
Google launches podcast section in Google Play Music for US users on Android and the web  —  Google Play Will Now Soundtrack Your Life With Podcasts  —  A decade after their inception, podcasts are hitting the mainstream.  You can argue about why (everyone does), but the numbers don't lie.
 
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