Mediagazer: Sources: Apple to debut Amazon Prime Video app on Apple TV at WWDC; one source says the app may launch this summer (John Paczkowski/BuzzFeed)

6:30 PM ET, May 11, 2017

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John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:

Sources: Apple to debut Amazon Prime Video app on Apple TV at WWDC; one source says the app may launch this summer — And Apple TV — which has been banned from Amazon since late 2015 — is returning to the retailer's virtual shelves. — Managing Editor, BuzzFeed San Francisco

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / WWD:

The NYT will publish a print-only, stand-alone kids' section aimed at nine to 12-year-olds this Sunday, the latest installment in a new print initiative — Sunday's New York Times will include a special print section for kids. — The New York Times for Kids

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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Sony Pictures Entertainment names Tony Vinciquerra, formerly of Fox Networks Group, its CEO, as the company shifts toward TV — LOS ANGELES — Hollywood has a new mogul. — Sony Pictures Entertainment, bedeviled in recent years by movie misfires, a devastating cyberattack and executive ejections …

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Twitter announces a new deal for year-round NFL content that includes a 30-minute live digital show that will air five nights per week — Twitter lost the deal to stream the NFL's Thursday Night Football games this year to Amazon, but today the company is announcing a new multi-year agreement …

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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:

BuzzFeed Motion Pictures' Jessica Chambers docuseries, based on a BuzzFeed investigation, will air on the Oxygen channel, the studio's first TV show pickup — ‘What Happened to...Jessica Chambers’ will examine the death of a Mississippi teen, whose story was first told in an investigative piece …

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Elsa Keslassy / Variety:

Cannes Film Festival allows two Netflix movies into competition this year but will require future films to screen in French theaters — PARIS - A week before its opening ceremony, the Cannes Film Festival said Wednesday that the Netflix movies “Okja” and “The Meyerowitz Stories” …

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Rishika Sadam / Reuters:

Verizon to buy 5G spectrum holder Straight Path Communications for $3.1B — Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N), the No.1 U.S. wireless carrier, is buying wireless spectrum holder Straight Path Communications Inc (STRP.A) for an enterprise value of about $3.1 billion, ending a bidding war with rival AT&T (T.N).

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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:

A 2015 Gawker post based on Michael Lynton's emails from Sony Pictures hack is deleted from Gawker archive; Denton says takedown was confidential by court order — The deleted article on Gawker, which is no longer in operation, published leaked emails from Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton.

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Google acquires Owlchemy Labs, the VR-focused game studio behind Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, for an undisclosed sum — Google announced today that it's acquiring Owlchemy Labs, the VR-focused studio that created Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality.

Discussion: Owlchemy Labs, Forbes, ValueWalk, Mashable, The Next Web, Engadget, Android Police, SlashGear, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Google, Polygon, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Seeking Alpha and ZDNet, more at Techmeme »

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

FCC's website has been flooded with 128K+ identical fake anti-net neutrality comments via its public comment system API — Several people we spoke to denied they had posted comments to the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) feedback pages. — A bot is thought to be behind the posting …

Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:

Amid the White House's credibility issues, substitute press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders faces the same challenge as Sean Spicer, with incongruous claims — Trump tells NBC he planned to fire Comey — When White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders held her first press conference …

Discussion: @carloslozadawp, @brianstelter and @braddjaffy

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:

Sources: TPG Capital in talks to acquire 10% of Vice Media for just over $500M; other prospective bidders include CVC Capital Partners — A US private equity group which owns a stake in Airbnb is in talks about buying a shareholding in Vice Media, the millennials-focused news and entertainment group …

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