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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 …
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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
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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
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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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Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Business Insider, The Wrap and The Verge
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
HBO, Discovery invest in VR startup OTOY to produce original holographic content, terms not disclosed
HBO, Discovery invest in VR startup OTOY to produce original holographic content, terms not disclosed
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OTOY, Home Media Magazine and Engadget
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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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Netflix Media Center, Home Media Magazine, Forbes, Variety and The Verge
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.
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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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Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal:
Source: News Corp files complaint to European Commission accusing Google of leveraging its dominance in search for news articles — News Corp Files Formal Complaint to European Commission over Google — U.S. tech giant accused of leveraging its dominance in the search for news articles
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