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3:45 PM ET, January 30, 2024

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Sources: TikTok plans to open studios in several cities, including LA, where creators can livestream and sell products, a strategy that worked for Douyin  —  When TikTok creators start a livestream to chat about their new favorite hairbrush, dog toy or cleaning product, they're usually doing so from a setup in their own home.
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Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:
TikTok is testing a feature that could make all posts shoppable, by identifying objects in videos and prompting users to “find similar items on TikTok Shop”
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Memo: TechCrunch plans to wind down TC+, its paid subscription product launched in 2019 as ExtraCrunch, and lays off ~8 employees, amid media industry-wide cuts  —  The Yahoo-owned publisher first launched TC+ in 2019  —  Technology publisher TechCrunch laid off around eight staff members Monday …
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
The Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa's independent student newspaper, purchases two weekly local newspapers, the Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun and Solon Economist  —  Student journalists in Iowa will now have more chances to hone their reporting skills while strengthening local news.
Matthew Kish / Oregonian:
The Oregonian plans to appeal a court order to not publish info from docs that a lawyer accidentally sent it, saying prior restraint goes against 1A  —  A federal judge on Friday ordered The Oregonian/OregonLive not to publish information from documents it obtained last week from an attorney …
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
The US Chamber of Commerce sues the FCC to overturn rules that prevent digital discrimination in access to broadband services, saying that they are overly broad  —  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and two Texas business groups sued the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday seeking …
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Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
The US sentences IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn to five years in prison for leaking the tax returns of Donald Trump and other Americans to media outlets  —  A former U.S. Internal Revenue Service contractor was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison for leaking the tax records …
 
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Michael Hardy / Texas Monthly:
A look at the decline of Austin American-Statesman, as Gannett steadily slashes staffing and budgets despite the paper winning a Pulitzer for Uvalde reporting
Nathan Wilk / OPB:
The Eugene Weekly plans to return to print on February 8, rehiring essential staff after $150K in donations, following an alleged embezzlement in December 2023
Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal:
Reed Hastings donates $1.1B worth of his Netflix shares, or ~40% of his stake, to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a popular charity among tech founders
Christopher Kuo / New York Times:
Ukraine's foreign ministry criticizes HBO for casting Milos Bikovic in The White Lotus' season three, saying without evidence the Serbian actor supports Russia
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Plex raised new funding, larger than the $50M funding it raised in 2021, and expects to be profitable by the end of 2024
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Bloomberg starts providing AI-generated summaries of companies' earnings calls on its terminal; the company has more than 310,000 subscribers to its terminal
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Sirius XM acquires rights to SmartLess, a podcast by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes, sources say for $100M+; Amazon previously paid $60M-$80M
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Mail Online executives on rolling out its new £4.99 per month Mail+ tier to all UK users, the £12.99 per month Mail+ Editions app, and more