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Kelly Liyakasa / AdExchanger:
Google and AppNexus sever ties with ComboTag, the partner company behind Adblock Plus' ad exchange; ComboTag says the exchange will still go ahead — Google has severed its relationship with ComboTag, the Israeli startup that sourced buyers for Adblock Plus' recently launched Acceptable Ads Platform.
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Adblock Plus launches a marketplace for Acceptable Ads, will get 6% revenue from ads and publishers will receive 80% — Adblock Plus is launching a new service that... uh, puts more ads on your screen. — Rather than stripping all ads from the internet forever, Adblock Plus is hoping …
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Aoife White / Bloomberg:
EU publishes proposals for new copyright rules which would allow news publishers to demand payment from aggregators like Google News — Copyright plan may curb online use of news articles, content — EU also seeks to bolster rights of music performers, authors
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Mark Scott / New York Times:
New EU proposals would make VOD content from services including Netflix, Amazon Prime, and BBC iPlayer more readily available across all member states — Siim Teller is a big fan of the British Broadcasting Corporation. A 37-year-old Estonian, he got hooked on the documentaries …
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Spotify hits 40M paid subscribers, up 10M in five months, compared to Apple Music's growth of about 4M over roughly the same period — Spotify today confirmed it has reached the 40 million paid subscriber milestone. — In a tweet shared by Spotify's official Twitter account today …
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Rafat Ali / Skift:
Travel news site Skift expands into food and drink coverage, will host and distribute Chefs+Tech newsletter written by veteran journalist Kristen Hawley — The future of dining out, as told by the Chefs+Tech weekly newsletter. — Skift Take: Chefs+Tech is a natural expansion of the Skift umbrella …
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Politico:
More details emerge about CNN commentator Corey Lewandowski's involvement with Trump's presidential campaign; he is advising its top officials — Ousted Trump campaign manager playing a widening role behind the scenes. — Among the Trump campaign staffers and VIPs mingling in a back room …
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Fact-checking debates in real-time is a burden moderators are not as well suited to handle as seasoned staffers at Politifact or The Washington Post — Presidential debate moderators often go into hiding as they prepare to carry out their thankless jobs. But Fox News' Chris Wallace caused …
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Jason Leopold / VICE News:
VICE files FOIA lawsuit against the IRS, demanding it turn over Trump's tax returns, and against the FBI, seeking info on two controversial campaign comments — For more than a year, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has claimed that he would “love” to release his tax returns …
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
New Twitter app launches on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Xbox One, as the site prepares to stream its first NFL game on Thursday — Twitter also built apps for Amazon and Xbox. — On Thursday, Twitter will stream its first NFL game, a Thursday Night Football matchup between the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets.
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NorthJersey.com:
After purchasing North Jersey Media Group in July, Gannett to make 200+ staffers redundant — North Jersey Media Group announced Wednesday an ambitious restructuring designed to make its newsroom and sales department more responsive to the growing digital demands of readers and advertisers.
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
UK Parliamentary committee finds ex-News of the World editor Colin Myler, legal manager Tom Crone, in contempt over phone hacking evidence given to government — Parliamentary standards committee finds against newspaper's former editor and legal manager over evidence they gave
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook's VP of product management Adam Mosseri says the company is actively working on tech to prevent fake news stories from showing up in Trending section — Following the controversial firing of the editorial team who managed the Trending Topics that appear next to Facebook's News Feed …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat and The Next Web