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Sources: Amazon is planning to launch a free, ad-supported video service for its ~48M Fire TV streaming video device users that is being developed by IMDb — Amazon.com is planning to launch a free, advertising-supported video service for the estimated 48 million people who use …
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Jessica Toonkel / The Information:
Sources: Amazon hires former ESPN executive Marie Donoghue to oversee sports for Prime Video — Amazon.com has hired Marie Donoghue, a former ESPN executive, to oversee sports for Prime Video, according to people familiar with the situation. The hire of Ms. Donoghue …
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Awful Announcing and @richarddeitsch
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Trump's economic adviser Kudlow says White House is “taking a look” at whether Google results should be regulated, amid concerns about alleged conservative bias — The Trump administration is “taking a look” at whether Google and its search engine should be regulated by the government …
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James Vincent / The Verge:
Trump accuses Google of rigging its search results to suppress positive news about him and says the situation “will be addressed”
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John Gentile / Punknews.org:
Former LA Weekly staff to launch The LAnd, a new print and digital publication covering race, gender, immigration, politics, culture, and more, by year's end — In the wake of the buyout of the La Weekly and mass firing of the its staff, former staffers, editors, and contributors to LA Weekly …
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@passionweiss and @dannyshap
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed launches a Wirecutter competitor, BuzzFeed Reviews, with the site potentially getting a cut of revenue from products purchased — Digital media company looks to generate revenue from e-commerce — BuzzFeed has launched a new product-review site that recommends products to consumers …
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Digiday, @jbenton and @gustavgoosen
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Quartz launches a twice-weekly cryptocurrency newsletter Quartz Private Key at $15 per month or $150 annually — Newsletter will cost $15 per month, or $150 annually — Quartz is the latest media company attempting to cash in on the growing enthusiasm for cryptocurrency.
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SludgeFeed, @joelight and @rafat
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Progress News Network to launch a daily, 2.5 minute Facebook exclusive newscast aimed at 35+ year-olds on September 4; revenue focus to begin after the midterms — A group of media professionals is launching Progress News Network (PNN), a daily 2.5 minute newscast slated to reach 35-40+ year-olds …
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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Bing announces Bing Spotlight, an AI-powered news aggregator of developing news stories in search results, includes headlines, timelines, and social media posts — There's an avalanche of news these days, and Microsoft wants to help make sense of it all. It today announced Bing Spotlight …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: HuffPost owner Oath has been pitching advertisers on a service that analyzes its 200M+ Yahoo Mail inboxes; source says practice began 10+ years ago — Web giant analyzes more than 200 million inboxes for clues about what products people might buy—a practice much of Silicon Valley has declared off-limits
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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Twitter says it removed a further 486 accounts for engaging in “coordinated manipulation”, following the removal of 284 last week — Following last week's suspension of 284 accounts for “engaging in coordinated manipulation,” Twitter announced today that it's kicked …
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Inside Vox's video series Borders, which seeks to humanize borders using a network of local followers who wanted to participate in the videos' creation — “I was sensitive to saying, 'Here I am, an outsider, a non-expert going to these places and saying I'm here to explain this.'"
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@agolis, @amandablair, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Amazon opens its Prime Book Box service, which sends kids books on a regular basis for $23/box, to all Prime users in the US — Amazon has launched yet another Prime perk for members across the U.S. — The latest benefit isn't a free offering, like many of the other perks that come as part of an annual Prime membership.
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