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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:

President Biden signs the ByteDance-TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law, after the Senate passed it by 79-18; the House passed the legislation 360-58 on April 20 — The divest-or-ban bill is now law, starting the clock for ByteDance to make its move. The company has an initial nine months …

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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
TikTok suspends the rewards program in TikTok Lite while the company tries to resolve EU concerns over the potentially addictive nature of Lite for children

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Meta, Google, Snap, and Amazon all benefit from the US TikTok ban; Mark Zuckerberg criticized TikTok's Chinese roots in 2019, part of Meta's broader campaign

Discussion: Fast Company, @willoremus@mastodon.social and Ad Age

Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:
Biden signing the TikTok divestment bill starts a 270-day countdown for a sale or a US prohibition; sources say ByteDance sees divestiture as a last resort

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Whether TikTok is banned or not, this is the end as we know it for the loss-making app, which may lose focus due to advertiser, creator, and staff uncertainty

Discussion: The Cool Down, Wired and CNBC, more at Techmeme »

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Indian streaming service JioCinema launches an ad-free subscription plan with the lowest tier costing $0.35/month for a single device, undercutting rivals — JioCinema, the popular Indian on-demand video-streaming service, introduced a new monthly subscription plan on Wednesday, with the lowest tier costing just 35 cents.

Discussion: Reuters, The Indian Express, Bloomberg and Variety

Meta Investor Relations:

Meta reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $36.46B, net income up 117% YoY to $12.37B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.24B for March 2024 — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024.

Discussion: Andy Barr on LinkedIn, Fast Company, @edludlow, The Verge, New York Times, Financial Times, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, more at Techmeme »

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:

Meta's stock dropped 15%+ after hours on weak Q2 revenue guidance and higher FY 2024 capital expenditures due to increased AI infrastructure investments — Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis …

Discussion: City A.M., Roderick Mann on LinkedIn, The Information, The Wrap and Fortune, more at Techmeme »

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:

Warner Music Group sells Uproxx, HipHopDX, and other assets to a new company, Uproxx Studios, formed by Jarret Myer, Rich Antoniello, and will.i.am — In February, Robert Kyncl - CEO of Warner Music Group - confirmed that WMG was in active discussions to sell its ‘owned and operated’ media properties UPROXX and HipHopDX.

Discussion: UPROXX Studios, Maria Weaver on LinkedIn, Forbes, Billboard, Digital Music News and The Hollywood Reporter

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

Proxy filing for TKO Group Holdings: Endeavor's Ari Emanuel received a pay package of nearly $65M in 2023, the year that Endeavor merged UFC and WWE — TKO, the owner of the WWE and UFC, disclosed its executive pay packages in its proxy filing. — Endeavor's $21 billion deal to merge …

Discussion: The Wrap, Variety and Deadline

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:NEW!

A look at US investigative outlet The Lever, which has 19 staffers after launching in 2022 with two staff, 112K subscribers, and paying subscribers up 16.5% YoY — The Lever's “bread and butter” reporting is “how corporate power is making everything worse for the rest of us”.

New York Times:

Sources detail NPR's struggles with declining audiences, falling sponsorship revenue, internal conflicts over turning things around, and a diversity push — NPR employees tuned in for a pivotal meeting late last year for a long-awaited update on the future of the public radio network.

Discussion: @benmullin, @michaelmagras@mstdn.social, @ri.woche@threads.net, @davidfolkenflik, @benmullin, @benmullin, @_eileenie_@threads.net and @yonetteajoseph@threads.net

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
An interview with NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who defends NPR and accuses critics of “bad faith distortion” of her past comments about the First Amendment

Discussion: Fox News, Inside Radio, @edbmarsh, @jonathanturley and The Hill

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:

Reddit says its Dynamic Product Ads, which use “shopping signals” to automatically show relevant ads to users, are entering public beta globally — Reddit says its “communities are naturally commercial.” — Reddit has made it clear that it's an ad-first business.

Discussion: @drrjv@vmst.io, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @arstechnica@mastodon.social and Social Media Today, more at Techmeme »

Robbie Farias / Austin American-Statesman:

A photojournalist for TV station Fox 7 Austin was arrested after an altercation with state troopers at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas — A photojournalist with FOX 7 Austin was arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday.

Will Sommer / Washington Post:

The founder of The Gateway Pundit says its parent company is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as it faces lawsuits claiming it promoted bogus election claims — Gateway Pundit, the popular far-right blog, is filing for bankruptcy as it faces lawsuits alleging it promoted bogus claims …

Discussion: The Guardian, The Gateway Pundit, @checkmyads@threads.net, CNN, @yonetteajoseph@threads.net, @asfleischman, NPR, HuffPost and Mediaite

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:

Apollo-backed US investment group Concord increases its bid for Hipgnosis Songs Fund, to $1.5B, just over the last offer from Blackstone — Offer for music rights group rises to $1.5bn as Apollo-backed investor beats rival's bid — Hipgnosis Songs Fund has found itself at the centre …

Discussion: City A.M., CMU, Billboard, Music Business Worldwide and Digital Music News

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Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Members of the iHeart Podcast Union file an unfair labor practice claim against iHeartMedia; the union represents around 100 producers, hosts, and others

Discussion: RADIO ONLINE, @wgaeast, @iwriteok, Writers Guild of America … and Radio & Television …

Tom Jones / Poynter:
How the Columbia Daily Spectator, the independent student newspaper of Columbia University, is covering the tense protests over the Israel-Hamas war

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, Wall Street Journal, @nicdawes, The Hill, @will_bunch, @poynter, Rhode Island Current, @mukta_jo, @samaakhu, The Indian Express, GQ, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CBS News and New York Times

E. Alex Jung / New York Magazine:
A profile of Mehdi Hasan, whose aggressive interviewing helped him get an MSNBC show, as he now embraces the “canceled” label to launch his Zeteo substack

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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox's Tubi partners with DAZN to launch FAST channels DAZN Women's Football and DAZN Ringside, which features boxing and MMA, in the US

Discussion: Tv Technology, The Desk, StreamTV Insider, Media Play News, Digital Trends and WORLD SCREEN

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CNN:
Memo: Semafor elevates Max Tani to media editor; Ben Smith says Tani will play a big role producing and appearing at Semafor's media summit and other projects

Discussion: Washington Post, HuffPost, @maxwelltani, @semaforben, New York Daily News, The Daily Beast, The Hill, Forbes and Reuters

Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The UK's Channel 4 commits to make more shows outside England, after calls to increase its quota to make 9% of shows in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, potentially complicating hiring in Hollywood as firms try to protect trade secrets and other info

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
US prosecutors charge two founders of Samourai Wallet, saying the crypto mixing service facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions

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