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Behind the online battle between notable tech figures including a16z partners and Balaji Srinivasan, and the journalists who tweet and report on the industry — Late last fall, the New York Times was preparing a bombshell article about Coinbase, a financial exchange that had become …
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@nickconfessore, @rmac18, @paulbradleycarr, @harrymccracken, @jeffjarvis, @micsolana, @nbj914, @markskrikorian, @yudhanjaya, @mgsiegler, @matthaber, @intelligencer, @riceid, @dskok and @tomgara, more at Techmeme »
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Amazon signs multi-year deal with the WNBA giving Prime Video exclusive global streaming rights to 16 regular season games and the Commissioner's Cup game — Amazon and the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) announced a multi-year agreement giving Prime Video exclusive global streaming rights …
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WNBA.com, @caiti326, @ramonashelburne, The Verge, Engadget, The Streamable and Cord Cutters News
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TikTok launches #FactCheckYourFeed, a media literacy campaign with creators and public figures discussing recognizing fake news, balanced news diets, and more — TikTok has always been a place that inspires creativity and brings joy. Every day we are blown away by the inspirational …
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Discord announces Stage Discovery, a tool to help people find communities through live audio events, and says it will soon test paid, ticketed audio events — If you're new to Discord, you might be thrown off by the lack of an endless feed peppered with ads.
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UK's Channel 4, commercially funded but owned by the government, could be privatized in the next three years, the British culture secretary says — British culture secretary repeats view that Tory sell-off of public broadcaster is not ‘ruled out’ — The culture secretary, Oliver Dowden …
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Roku will debut Roku Originals on the Roku Channel on May 20, starting with 30 Quibi shows — Quibi is coming back from the dead next week... sort of. — On May 20, Roku will debut the first batch of Roku Originals — a collection of 30 shows originally produced for Quibi …
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Profile of DeShuna Spencer, who founded the streaming service kweliTV in 2015 to focus on Black stories; kweliTV now has 43,000 users despite lack of VC funding — New York (CNN Business)When DeShuna Spencer sat in front of her TV to scroll through her options, she noticed a glaring problem …
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Slate launches an audiobook store, partnering with Penguin-Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and Hachette, with titles accessible via podcast apps — Including from Penguin-Random House, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins — Slate is getting into the audiobooks business.
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Hot Pod News, Podcast Movement and Slate
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Knight Foundation announces $3M initiative to help local news outlets expand AI use; it will initially fund four projects to address knowledge and skill gaps — A new, $3 million Knight initiative will help local news organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to drive success.
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@partnershipai, @pcheung630, @knightfdn, @browninstitute and @dankennedy_nu
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Vizio says Q1 profits from its Platform+ business, which sells viewer data and ad space, hit $38.4M, up 152% YoY; profit from its hardware division was $48.2M — Vizio is finally a public company, after its — 2015 plan for an IPO was derailed during a messy acquisition attempt from LeEco that
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@kylerankin, @karlbode, @benlikestocode, @samfbiddle, @joshbloch and Ars Technica
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A reporter covering protests against Myanmar coup has been jailed for three years for “incitement”, among the first guilty verdicts against media by the junta — (Reuters) - A journalist who reported on protests against this year's coup in Myanmar has been jailed for three years for incitement …
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Podcaster Joe Budden fires his co-hosts Rory Farrell and Jamil “Mal” Clay, and the future of his eponymous six-year-old show appears uncertain — Podcaster Joe Budden has fired his co-hosts and friends, Rory Farrell and Jamil “Mal” Clay, according to social media posts and audio leaked online.
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HipHopDX News, @joebudden, @joebudden, @joebudden, Complex, The Wrap and New York Post