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6:00 PM ET, October 10, 2024

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Bloomberg:
Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services  —  Apple will begin selling TV+ subscriptions through Prime later this month, Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Amazon Prime Video …
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Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Prime Video's head says Amazon's sports investments are part of a move to build the next generation of an entertainment service, beyond just movies and TV shows  —  In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant's hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Study: five major US newspapers gave the latest filing in Trump's indictment over the 2020 election a small fraction of the coverage they gave Clinton's emails  —  In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, major newspapers are giving former President Donald Trump's federal criminal indictment …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Google tests a “quick view” feature that displays full recipes without leaving Search; the company says it has agreements with participating recipe bloggers  —  Google is testing yet another feature aimed at keeping users on search results pages — this time targeting the popular recipe blog industry.
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Kyle Chayka / New Yorker:
An interview with Taylor Lorenz about “dancing on the grave” of legacy media, the creator economy coming for journalism, resigning from WaPo, and more
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Filing: the FT reports 2023 revenue up 5% YoY to £444M, operating profit down 33% YoY to £9M, and 1.4M paid subscribers, of which 1.3M were digital subscribers  —  The Financial Times made more than half a billion pounds in revenue for the first time in its history in 2023.
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
PayPal formally launches PayPal Ads, which looks to help US marketers tap into data about transactions across PayPal's platforms, including Venmo and Honey  —  - PayPal is set to launch an ads business, starting in the US.  — The company intends to offer ads across its own properties, as well as retailers.
Sacha Biazzo / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at issues at Global Press, which trains women journalists in the developing world and is terminating 37 reporters' contracts amid a fundraising crunch  —  A nonprofit that trains women journalists in the developing world is recalibrating its model amid a fundraising crunch.
Discussion: Global Press Journal
Bloomberg:
Sources: Legendary Entertainment is in advanced talks to buy out Dalian Wanda's stake in the studio; Legendary and Apollo would take control after the deal  —  - Wanda acquired Legendary for about $3.5 billion in 2016  — An announcement could come as soon as in coming days
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Yahoo Sports and The Athletic partner to launch a hub with free coverage of women's sports on the Yahoo Sports site and, “in the coming months”, on the app  —  - With women's sports, “there's a ton of attention, but there's still room to grow in terms of distribution and audience,” he added.
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
The Boston Globe reports 281K digital subscribers, up 6.5% YoY; paid print circulation in the year to September 2024 was 57K on weekdays and 102K on Sundays  —  Paid circulation growth at The Boston Globe has leveled off, as a modest increase in digital subscriptions has barely been enough …
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
DirecTV plans to launch a free, ad-supported streaming service called MyFree DirecTV on November 15 as a mobile app and on some streaming devices and smart TVs
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Guardian launches product recommendation site The Filter following a trial lasting several months, as it chases affiliate revenue
Discussion: The Guardian
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9
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Gary Miles / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pulitzer winning investigative reporter and author Donald L. Barlett, half of the famous Barlett and Steele team at The Philadelphia Inquirer, dies at age 88
Jay Peters / The Verge:
X updates its Creator Revenue Sharing program to pay creators based on engagement with their content from Premium users, not how many see ads in their replies
 

 
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Financial Times:
Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code from some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live
 
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