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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Disney will not bid for Twitter, leaving Salesforce as the last potential bidder — Cross another potential Twitter buyer off the list: Disney isn't pursuing a bid for the social platform, either. — Sources familiar with Disney, which was mulling a possible Twitter purchase last week …
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Twitter board consulting advisers on how to deal with internal disagreement over possible sale, with Ev Williams in favor of and Dorsey against it — A few days before Twitter's Sept. 8 board meeting, as the company's finance team readied a presentation, it received conflicting directions on a crucial question.
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Sources: Google will not make a Twitter bid and Apple also an unlikely suitor; Twitter's stock down about 10% after hours — Amid speculation, the tech giants have other aims — According to sources close to the situation, Google does not currently plan to make a bid for Twitter.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The Atlantic endorses Clinton, its third endorsement in 159 years, but the impact of editorials against Trump remains unclear — The Atlantic magazine has made only two presidential endorsements in its 159-year history: one for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and one for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
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Cora Lewis / BuzzFeed:
Fusion's newsroom prepares to unionize with Writers Guild of America, East; management sends email saying move “would not be beneficial” for staff or company — Update: Management responds with company-wide email stating unionization “would not be beneficial for you or Fusion.”
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Nielsen: vice presidential debate drew 37.2M viewers across nine TV channels, the lowest number since the 2000 Cheney-Lieberman debate — Tuesday night's vice presidential debate drew a smaller audience than the VP debates in 2012 and 2008, according to overnight Nielsen ratings.
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
BuzzFeed attacked by hacker group OurMine after publishing story identifying a member; group alters articles, claims to have seized database, threatens release — A number of BuzzFeed posts were vandalized by hackers this morning in apparent retaliation for a story that claimed to expose a member of their group.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Roku updates Direct Publisher Platform, lets publishers create channels without writing code, offers to handle all video ad sales for 40% cut — Roku today isrolling out new tools that will make it simpler for anyone to bring their video content to its media player lineup, without having to write any code.
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Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight, where data-driven political journalism attracted 10M unique visitors last month — Photo: Harry Enten speaks during the FiveThirtyEight Live podcast in San Francisco, California, this June (Peter DaSilva / ESPN Images)
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Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web:
Amazon rolls out Prime Reading, giving Prime members free access to more than 1,000 Kindle books and magazines including Sports Illustrated — In addition to faster shipping for products from its online store, Amazon's Prime subscription plan offers numerous benefits, including unlimited photo storage …
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Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:
Sources: over next 2-5 years, AT&T will expand into original programming via acquisitions; CEO Stephenson has target list of 40+ companies, some worth $2B-$50B — @MoritzDispatch , More stories by Scott Moritz — Largest U.S. pay-TV provider wants to cut programming costs
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Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors:
Shazam launches an iMessage app for easily identifying and sharing songs — Popular music-detecting app Shazam today rolled out an update that adds support for the service within Messages, so users can send new artist and song discoveries directly to friends and family members.
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