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9:05 PM ET, April 18, 2022

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Bloomberg:
Filings: three Alex Jones companies, including Infowars, filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas on Sunday, after they were found liable in Sandy Hook lawsuits  —  Companies owned by far-right radio host Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy after being hit by a flurry of lawsuits.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Report: Microsoft is working on a program to let select brands advertise within free-to-play Xbox games, such as on a billboard, and won't take a revenue cut  —  The ads supposedly wouldn't disrupt gameplay  —  Microsoft is reportedly working on a program that will let brands showcase …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
A US appeals court reaffirms that scraping publicly accessible content on the internet is legal, ending a landmark case LinkedIn brought against rival Hiq Labs  —  Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling.
Alistair Gray / Financial Times:
Kantar: UK users canceled ~1.5M subscriptions to Disney+, Apple TV+, Now, and others in Q1 2022, due to inflation; 58% of households kept at least one service  —  About 1.5mn accounts terminated within three months as inflation squeezes finances  —  British households have cancelled video subscriptions …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Stem, which offers music rights management software for independent artists, raises $20M from QED Investors and Block, bringing its total funding to nearly $40M  —  Jordan Higa was waiting for her flight when she stopped to ask her travel companion how much they would spend on tickets to see BTS perform live.
Discussion: Variety and @lucas_shaw
Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
How Barnes & Noble, with book sales up 14% from pre-pandemic, went from a threat to industry anchor by letting store managers choose books to promote and more  —  To independent booksellers, the enormous chain was once a threat.  Now it's vital to their survival.  And it's doing well.
Nick Kostov / Wall Street Journal:
French music streaming service Deezer plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a €1.05B valuation and says it has 9.6M subscribers and had €400M in 2021 revenue  —  French music streaming service is merging with a special-purpose acquisition company, aiming to go public
David Hume Kennerly / New York Times:
Photojournalist David Hume Kennerly on the power of graphic images in Ukraine and other conflicts: “The best photographs of war might make us want to look away”  —  The following images depict graphic violence.  —  A couple of weeks ago I came across the graphic images …
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company:
Netflix debuts the Exploding Kittens animated comedy series and a game for Android and iOS, launching a series and a game across a single IP for the first time  —  The streaming industry has grown exponentially in the past several years.  Where there was once only Netflix, now there's Disney Plus …
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
CBS shareholders settle for $14.75M in a lawsuit that claimed the company misled investors by failing to disclose sexual harassment allegations against Moonves  —  Paramount Global (PARA.O) has agreed to pay $14.75 million to shareholders of the former CBS Corp in a proposed class action claiming …
Nancy Tartaglione / Deadline:
Netflix partners with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture for a one-time, $250,000 grant to support five female Arab filmmakers  —  Netflix is partnering with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) to support five Arab women filmmakers.  The pact will see the streamer provide a one-time grant …
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
 
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Spotify's recent Podsights and Chartable acquisitions are raising concerns over the availability of third-party podcast metrics for advertisers and publishers
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Most broadcasts on BBC Three, which relaunched as a live TV channel in February to focus on young viewers, are failing to attract more than 100K viewers
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Tom Hals / Reuters:
The New York Times sues an anti-immigration author for the cost to defend itself against his 2020 defamation lawsuit, a first under NY's expanded anti-SLAPP law
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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