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Sources: Twitter may receive formal bid shortly, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google — Twitter has received expressions of interest from several technology companies and may receive a formal bid shortly, sources said. — The social media company is engaged in conversations …
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Facebook says it overestimated average video viewing time metric by 60%-80% for 2 years, according to information Publicis Media says it obtained from Facebook — Social network miscalculated the average time users spent watching videos on its platform — Big ad buyers and marketers …
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David Fischer / Facebook:
Facebook VP of advertising David Fischer explains video metric miscalculation, apologizes, says the mistake had no impact on billing — Many of you may have seen the reports about our video metric miscalculation - I want to provide further clarity on the issue.
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
The Verge founding team member Chris Ziegler took a job at Apple two months before leaving the website; internal review finds no impact on editorial decisions — Hey everyone — there have been questions about Chris Ziegler and his absence from The Verge in the past few weeks.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Media reporter Paul Farhi asks readers to stop referring to “the media”, an imprecise, unfair, lazy smear — To: Everyone From: Paul Farhi — Folks, I know a lot of you don't like the people who work in my chosen profession, the news business.
Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge rules UVA associate dean Nicole Eramo is a limited-purpose public figure, making it harder to prove defamation in a lawsuit against Rolling Stone — The court has found that UVA dean Nicole Eramo is a limited-purpose public figure and will face a higher bar in proving the story defamed her.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
NPR Planet Money and Netflix alums launching 60dB, an app to aggregate short-form audio stories into playlists tailored to listener interests — Give the people what they want, when they want it, where they want it. It's the mandate of streaming services like Spotify or Netflix …
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Washington Post:
CNN commentator Corey Lewandowski set to get nearly $500K from Trump campaign from April 2015 to December 2016, almost 25% coming as severance after June firing — Corey Lewandowski is set to be paid nearly half a million dollars by Donald Trump's presidential campaign by the end of the year …
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Media Matters for America, @aodespair, @tvietor08, @lisatozzi, @justinbaragona, @sopandeb and Business Insider
Paul Szoldra / Business Insider:
Brian Krebs' site hit by record 620Gbps sustained DDoS attack, nearly twice as big as any previous attack seen by Akamai; the site will be “offline for a while” — Cloud hosting giant Akamai Technologies has dumped journalist Brian Krebs from its servers after his website came under a “record” cyberattack.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
News Corp is testing a new, homegrown content recommendation tool, Project Hamilton, which lets its publications share their stories across sites — When it comes to recirculating readers, many media companies turn to Outbrain and Taboola, sprinkling ads into the mix to also generate revenue.
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@ylichterman, @brendanquinn, @digiday and Talking Biz News
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
iHeartRadio to launch 2 paid music services in January: All Access on-demand and Plus with instant replays, unlimited skips, ability to save songs to playlists — iHeartRadio could be getting more competitive with on-demand music services like Apple Music and Spotify next year.
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
NBC's Lester Holt, who once seemed destined to spend his career as a journeyman, could cement his national reputation moderating Monday's presidential debate — Lester Holt is carrying the weight of the nation. — On Monday, the NBC Nightly News anchor will preside over what may be the …
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