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Friday 25 October 2013

The flip-flop over beheadings: Facebook finds being a media entity isn’t as easy as it looks


by Mathew Ingram
Oct 23 2013, 6:05pm PDT
Facebook originally allowed users to post videos of beheadings, arguing that it was similar to a TV news network, but now the company has removed them -- making it unclear how strong its commitment to free speech is.
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by Jeff John Roberts
Oct 23 2013, 11:19am PDT
The SEC finally presented, and unanimously approved, a long-awaited plan to let companies raise money on the internet from small investors. The plan is now open for public comments before a final version goes into effect.
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by Mathew Ingram
Oct 23 2013, 10:46am PDT
The BBC is the latest broadcaster to sign a partnership deal with Twitter that will allow the British media entity to embed video clips -- complete with pre-roll ads -- in its Twitter stream.
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by Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 23 2013, 8:24am PDT
More creators can now take advantage of YouTube's paid subscriptions. As of Tuesday, free channels that have over 10,000 subscribers and meet some other criteria can create paid channels and charge monthly fees for them.
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by Jeff John Roberts
Oct 22 2013, 3:37pm PDT
A patent troll is using patents from 1998 owned by the Shoah Foundation and USC to sue a wide rang of companies; the latest targets include the New York Times. The troll appears to claim that it owns a method for digital libraries.
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by Mathew Ingram
Oct 22 2013, 11:59am PDT
Fortune editor Adam Lashinsky's response to readers -- who were upset about a LinkedIn post he wrote pointing to a paywalled article -- shows a lack of understanding of both paywalls and how to use social platforms.
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by Jeff John Roberts
Oct 22 2013, 11:21am PDT
Big publishers like Time and USA Today are posting "stories" on their web sites that are really ads. Taboola, a company responsible for distributing those ads, is promising more transparency by better labeling the paid-for stories.
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by Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 22 2013, 9:21am PDT
Amazon and MGM announced a deal Tuesday to make more MGM movies, as well as the History Channel hit Vikings, available for streaming on Prime Instant Video. Previously, Vikings had been available exclusively through Amazon’s European streaming service Lovefilm. It’s not available for streaming on Netflix. Movies included […]
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by Janko Roettgers
Oct 21 2013, 5:41pm PDT
Netflix now has more than 40 million subscribers worldwide, and with strong results, it is now looking to expand into large additional markets in 2014.
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by Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 21 2013, 3:15pm PDT
The San Francisco-based iOS publishing platform Inkling has acquired Open Air Publishing, a New York-based publisher of iOS how-to books.
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by Jeff John Roberts
Oct 21 2013, 1:03pm PDT
As Twitter prepares for its IPO, some points to its paucity of patents as a sign of long term strategic weakness. In fact, the opposite may be true.
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by Mathew Ingram
Oct 21 2013, 11:29am PDT
Protection for journalists via a so-called "shield law" seems like a good idea, but as Josh Stearns of Free Press notes, any such law needs to cover acts of journalism, not just journalists
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by Katie Fehrenbacher
Oct 21 2013, 11:16am PDT
After you tune into Apple's event on Tuesday and learn about the latest in conspicuous consumption, why not check out the Al Gore-backed 24 Hours of Reality online broadcast? We chat with Gore about the project.
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by Janko Roettgers
Oct 21 2013, 7:00am PDT
Netflix still sends DVDs to around seven million customers. So when will the company pull the plug on DVD subscriptions and finally go online-only?
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by Chris Albrecht
Oct 21 2013, 3:35am PDT
From the stage at our Mobilize Conference, Netflix VP of Product Innovation, Todd Yellin tells how the company is looking to integrate phones into TV watching.
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