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2:55 PM ET, March 21, 2025

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Yahoo strikes a deal to sell TechCrunch to media investment firm Regent, which acquired PCWorld publisher Foundry earlier this week  —  Yahoo on Friday said it has struck a deal to sell TechCrunch, the 20-year-old tech journalism site, to Regent, a media investment firm.
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Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch says the Regent deal is structured to ensure minimal disruption to its operations and Yahoo is keeping a small interest in the company  —  If you haven't heard the news, TechCrunch has a shiny new home.  After years under Yahoo's ownership — which, in turn, is backed by Apollo Group — the brand is now in fresh hands.
Paris Martineau / The Information:
Source: US Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham plan to introduce a bipartisan bill with wide support that would make Section 230 expire on January 1, 2027  —  In June 1995, two young congressmen reached across the aisle to introduce legislation that would become the defining legal protection …
Reuters:
UK's CMA fines Sky, BT, IMG, ITV, and the BBC a combined £4M+ after they admitted “to breaking the law” by “colluding” on pay rates for freelancers  —  Britain's competition regulator fined four sports broadcast and production companies about 4 million pounds …
Alex Reisner / The Atlantic:
A look at LibGen, one of the largest online pirate libraries, with 7.5M+ books and 81M+ research papers, allegedly used by Meta and OpenAI to train AI models  —  Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI.  Search through them here.  —  When employees at meta started developing …
Alban Kacher / Reuters:
French media regulator Arcom orders Eutelsat to stop broadcasting Russian channels STS and Channel 5, after finding the channels had ties to a sanctioned entity  —  French media regulator Arcom has ordered Eutelsat (ETL.PA) to cease broadcasting Russian channels STS and Channel 5 …
Discussion: The Desk and Euractiv
Jared Newman / Cord Cutter Weekly:
Fubo discontinues Essential, its $85 per month plan with no regional sports, for new customers, after launching it in December 2024  —  Hey there!  I'm Jared Newman, and this is Cord Cutter Weekly, my newsletter on how to save money on TV and make the most of streaming.
Discussion: @rodoinvesting and The Desk
Bloomberg:
Good Good Golf, which has 1.75M+ YouTube subscribers, raised $45M led by Creator Sports Capital, with Peyton Manning's Omaha Productions and 50+ others joining  —  The startup's YouTube channel has attracted more than 1.75 million subscribers  —  Retired quarterback Peyton Manning …
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
A jury convicts two men, whom US prosecutors say are Russian mobsters, of involvement in an Iran-backed plot to kill US-based journalist Masih Alinejad  —  Two men who U.S. prosecutors say belong to a Russian organized crime group were convicted of involvement in an unsuccessful Iran-backed plot …
 
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Paul Liu / The Keyword:
Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal
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CEO Phil Spencer says Microsoft Gaming is embracing trial and error as the company bets on a different kind of game-to-film adaption with A Minecraft Movie
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
As Spotify pushes its new video monetization program, sexually explicit videos have appeared on its top podcast charts, violating the company's terms of use
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New York Times:
Sources: former WaPo executive editor Leonard Downie and ex-managing editor Bob Kaiser emailed Jeff Bezos in February, urging him to cut ties with Will Lewis
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney shareholders overwhelmingly reject a proposal for Disney to cease participation in the Human Rights Campaign's annual LGBTQ Corporate Equality Index
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard that lets AI agents work across different parts of the customer's buying process

Bloomberg:
Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual content

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed
 
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