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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Sources: following initial findings from sexual harassment investigation, Lachlan, James, and Rupert Murdoch have agreed to remove Roger Ailes, disagree on when — Roger Ailes's tenure as the head of Fox News may be coming to an end. Rupert Murdoch and sons Lachlan and James …
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Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Netflix Q2: international net subscribers 1.5M versus its forecast of 2M, misses on quarterly revenue with $2.11B; stock down 15%+ — Netflix now has 83.18 million subscribers after adding just 160,000 subscribers in the U.S. and 1.52 million abroad last quarter, missing the modest expectations it set back in April.
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Vindu Goel / New York Times:
As Yahoo puts itself up for sale, early employees known as “surfers” recall building the company's directory — SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Back in the mid-1990s, before Google even existed, the world's best guides to the internet sat in Silicon Valley cubicles, visiting websites and carefully categorizing them by hand.
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Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
An open internet and independent journalists proved essential to everyone in Turkey during the recent coup attempt, including Erdogan — ANTALYA, Turkey — When I was stuck at the airport in this city in southern Turkey, on Friday night, I had many things to worry about.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Yahoo Q2: $1.3B revenue, up 5% YoY, in line with expectations, $482M writedown on Tumblr; Mayer notes success in cutting costs as bid deadline hits — Internet company, in the midst of final talks to sell itself, takes impairment charges totaling $482 million for Tumblr
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
BuzzBot, an automated bot for FB Messenger from BuzzFeed, will gather and distribute news on the RNC by interacting with attendees, requesting photos, videos — Amanda Hickman was living in New York City in 2004 when the Republican National Convention got ugly.
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Adweek:
Private equity firm Beringer Capital acquires Adweek and its nine blogs, including TVNewser and FishbowlNY; terms not disclosed — Beringer Capital, a private equity firm that invests in digital media and marketing services, has reached an agreement with Mediabistro Holdings to acquire Adweek.
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple addresses song matching and auto-deletion issues by incorporating iTunes Match's audio fingerprint feature into Apple Music — Apple begins rolling out iTunes Match with audio fingerprint to Apple Music subscribers — One of the biggest complaints about Apple Music over the past year …
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Maryann Yin / GalleyCat:
Petition asking Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to create open environment for journalists at the RNC, DNC, gets 20K signatures — The 2016 presumptive presidential candidates of the Democratic and Republican parties have been presented with a petition. This petition calls for Hillary Clinton …
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Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg:
Russia's Mail.ru, owner of piracy-plagued social network VKontakte, signs music licensing deal with Universal, after deals with Warner and Sony to settle suits — Social-media site operator settles Universal Music litigation — Its VKontakte site was labeled ‘notorious’ by U.S. government
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Eamonn Forde / Guardian:
While music labels criticize YouTube, unknown artists see it as a great promotional tool — But with countless artists and enterprises using the site as a springboard to success, things aren't so simple — s artists, record labels, music publishers and managers line up to lobby the US Congress …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC News partners with Facebook to live-stream its RNC and DNC convention coverage; Facebook will share exclusive real-time data during major speeches — ABC News plans to deliver around-the-clock live coverage on Facebook for the 2016 Republican and Democratic national conventions under a partnership with the social giant.
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