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4:10 PM ET, April 27, 2016

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation for $3B+, would likely merge DreamWorks with Universal Pictures  —  Comcast in Talks to Buy DreamWorks for More Than $3 Billion  —  Deal would join DreamWorks with Comcast's Universal Pictures  —  Comcast Corp. is in talks …
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Q1: beats expectations with revenue up 5.3% to $18.79B, profit up to $2.13B, adds 53K video customers  —  Comcast Profit Tops Estimates  —  Cable giant continues to add video customers despite weak pay-TV market  —  Comcast Corp. reported better-than-expected financial results …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Arianna Huffington joins Uber's board, raising questions about Huffington Post editorial boundaries despite her recusing herself from coverage of Uber  —  Arianna Huffington is an Uber board member: Huh?  —  Editors in chief of news organizations are well advised to steer clear of corporate entanglements.
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Esquire removes satirical article by “Prof. Jeff Jarvis” after request from real Jeff Jarvis  —  Esquire removes satirical article after criticism  —  Late on Tuesday night, Esquire.com removed a satirical article written by Rurik Bradbury that it had published online earlier in the day.
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Tribune Publishing's Michael Ferro criticizes Gannett for pressing for board decision on $400M takeover bid before he can unveil strategic plan on May 4  —  Tribune Publishing Chairman Michael Ferro says Gannett is ‘trying to steal the company’  —  Chicago's Tribune Tower.
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
None of the changes Twitter made over the past year have broadened the appeal of the core service  —  Nothing Twitter is doing is working  —  Twitter reported its first-quarter earnings today, and they came in under expectations: the company's haul of $595 million was less than the $607.8 million …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:   Twitter's ad revenue problem is because of its user growth problem, lacking enough scale to compete with Facebook and Google
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Twitter reports mixed Q1 with $595M in revenue, up 36% YoY but less than $608M expected, 310M MAUs, up 3% YoY; stock drops 13%+ after hours
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
YouTube debuts non-skippable, 6-second Bumper ad unit, to complement existing ad formats  —  YouTube introduces six-second Bumper ads  —  YouTube announced a new ad format today that's all about brevity.  —  In a blog post, Product Manager Zach Lupei said YouTube has been exploring formats …
Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:
Google is letting the TV show ‘Silicon Valley’ post fake news to search results  —  If you search “Silicon Valley” or “Silicon Valley HBO” on Google, you'll find some nuggets about Stanford's damaged robots, Hooli's soaring stock price, and an unexpected CEO change at Pied Piper.
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Source: Facebook is offering some content creators around $250K for 20 live video posts per month over a three-month period  —  As Social Shifts To Video, Content Creators Win Power And Dollars  —  The social platforms are all competing for quality video, but only a select few can deliver it.
Joan E. Solsman / The Wrap:
Sources: Amazon Studios is in early-stage talks with VR companies about making original VR content  —  Amazon in Talks to Create Virtual Reality Content (Exclusive)  —  Amazon is in talks with virtual-reality companies about developing original virtual-reality content, multiple people familiar with the matter told TheWrap.
 
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