Mediagazer: Filing: Sean Parker and Klaus Hommels leave Spotify board as ex-Disney COO Thomas Staggs, ex-YouTube exec Shishir Mehrotra, others join ahead of rumored IPO (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Filing: Sean Parker and Klaus Hommels leave Spotify board as ex-Disney COO Thomas Staggs, ex-YouTube exec Shishir Mehrotra, others join ahead of rumored IPO — As Spotify inches its way to a public listing, the streaming music company — which now has 140 million users — has made some significant changes to its board of directors.

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Barnes & Noble beats estimates with Q4 sales of $821M, down 6.3% YoY, narrows its net loss to $13.4M, and is testing new store formats; stock up 7%+ — Read next … Despite the rising dominance of online retailer Amazon, Barnes & Noble isn't ready to leave the traditional bookstore for dead.

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Chris Stergalas / Washington-Baltimore News Guild:

Baltimore City Paper's editorial staff has joined the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, which also represents members of the Baltimore Sun and Washington Post — Baltimore City Paper's editorial staff has joined the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, the — union representing members …

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Jack Shafer / Politico:

Trump has left the WH communications director job open since mid-May, when Michael Dubke resigned, suggesting he wants the job for himself to control messaging — He wants to be communications director. — Trump doesn't really want to be president. If he did, he'd nominate candidates …

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Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web:

Yahoo's News Digest app, which delivered news updates twice daily, to shut down June 30 — Under former CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo failed to build anything truly exciting over the past five years - except for a single truly notable app, Yahoo News Digest. Now, under the reign of its new owner Verizon …

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Shareen Pathak / Digiday:

Profile of 14-year-old media consultancy MediaLink, an industry connector and its move into recruitment as the company's revenue reaches $54M/year — A longtime ad sales chief, who has made several pilgrimages to Cannes Lions, is reliant on MediaLink to set much of his itinerary for a week of meetings and parties along La Croisette.

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