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Seth Stevenson / Wall Street Journal:
Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat, unveils Spectacles, glasses that record up to 10 seconds of video at a time with a tap of a button, to be sold this fall for $130 — IN AN UNMARKED BUILDING on a quiet side street just off the beach in Venice, California, 26-year-old Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel stands in a small conference room.
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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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Wall Street Journal:
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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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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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Twitter sees 34% more viewers in its second NFL Thursday Night Football livestream — Thursday night's National Football League (NFL) contest may have resulted in the New England Patriot's 27 to 0 shutout of the Houston Texans, but how did Twitter fare? According to the sports league …
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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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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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