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Peter Kafka / Recode:

Quartz ends three-year-old Next Billion conference, lays off three, will focus on projects like new subscription business — It will focus on projects like a new subscription business instead. — Quartz, the digital business news publisher, is going to stop putting on a high-end technology conference.

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Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:

LA Weekly is up for sale, Voice Media Group announces, as part of a realignment that began when a new ownership group took over four years ago — The owners of the LA Weekly announced today that the venerable Los Angeles alt weekly is the chain's next paper to be offered for sale.

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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Snap to enable ad targeting using 3rd-party data from offline purchases, after signing deal with Oracle Data Cloud, following lead of Google, Facebook, Twitter — Mobile app company follows lead of Google, Facebook and Twitter by working with Oracle Data Cloud

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