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Texas AG says the state and nine others have filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming Google illegally hurt competition in the ad tech market — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday that he's leading a lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant of taking illegal actions …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku and WarnerMedia have reached an agreement to distribute HBO Max on the Roku platform, starting Thursday — Roku and WarnerMedia have reached an agreement for the distribution of the HBO Max on the Roku platform — nearly seven months after the streaming service launched.
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Inside Warner Bros.' plan to debut movies on HBO Max, as CEO Ann Sarnoff says partners were not told before because of fears the news would leak — As the long-delayed DC Comics sequel finally debuts — on HBO Max and in theaters — it serves as the litmus test for an unprecedented release strategy.
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Business Insider, @aaroncouch, @getfandom, @boomborks, @griffschiller, @ser_jon_arryn, @theflitecast, @thatrebecca, ScreenRant and IndieWire
Jack Morse / Mashable:
Twitter says it will stop prompting users to Quote Tweet, restoring the standard RT functionality, and says QT use increased but overall sharing dropped by 20% — Well, it was worth a shot. — Twitter announced Wednesday that it will cease prompting users to quote tweet in lieu of the standard retweet.
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Substack launches Substack Reader, an RSS reader for tracking newsletter subscriptions and other feeds, in beta — Substack Reader is now available in beta — If you're worried about all your newsletter subscriptions getting lost in your inbox, Substack may have a solution.
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Jacob Cohen Donnelly / A Media Operator:
A publisher of newsletters on digital media discusses the product and philosophical reasons he is leaving Substack, including lack of control over email lists — It was almost a year ago that I wrote a piece about me getting ready to leave Substack. I was spending the holiday season rebuilding the site on WordPress.
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Fred's Newsletter, @prsarahevans, @iankar_, @jarroddicker, @tomcritchlow, @mathewi and @annehelen
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Pubs like BI and WaPo are partnering with non-publisher brands in sectors like health to attract new subs; WSJ now has 40+ bundling partnerships in 25 countries — It's a new era of subscription bundling and it's a lot more sophisticated than selling readers on a two-for-one deal.
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Press Gazette, @_bmturner_ and @jackmarshall
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Facebook rolls back temporary post-election change that lifted news from authoritative outlets over hyperpartisan sources — Facebook confirmed that it has in the past few days rolled back a change that lifted news from authoritative outlets over hyperpartisan sources after November's election …
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@slpng_giants, @kantrowitz, @davidbauer and Reuters, more at Techmeme »
Paresh Dave / Reuters:
The Nation, Genius Media Group, and The Progressive sue Google, alleging it has unlawfully stifled advertising competition; they are seeking class-action status — OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Online publishers including Genius Media Group and news website The Nation alleged …
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Washington Post:
WaPo's revenue performance service Zeus integrates Scroll, the ad-free network of premium publishers, which Zeus customers can activate if they choose — Zeus Performance, The Washington Post's revenue performance platform, is taking the next step in its evolution as the premium monetization framework …
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@washpostpr, @arctictony and @jarroddicker
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
The book publishing industry faced a turbulent year amid the pandemic and questions about staff diversity, but books continued to sell — NEW YORK (AP) — Book publishing in 2020 was a story of how much an industry can change and how much it can, or wants to, remain the same.
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@steffdaz and @davidwelky
David Pierce / Protocol:
A look at Reelgood, which lets users watch content from 300+ streaming services in the same app and says it now has 6M users, up from 2M at the start of 2020 — David Sanderson's journey to fix the future of TV started with a simple and extremely familiar problem: He canceled cable and suddenly couldn't find anything to watch.
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