Thursday 4 July 2013

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Twitter will tailor ads based on your browsing — but you can opt out

Twitter is going to start serving ads based on your internet surfing habits -- but unlike other companies, it's offering you privacy settings that let you opt out of the system.

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Boxee sold to Samsung for under $30M

Boxee, which provides over-the-top TV services, has reportedly been sold to Samsung.

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Want to publish an ebook for iOS? Surprising tips from iPad publisher Open Air

iPad publisher Open Air sells 10 to 30 times as many books through Apple's App Store as it does through the iBookstore. Here, Open Air CEO Jon Feldman shares some lessons he's learned from publishing books for iOS.

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Magine gets $19M to expand cloud TV service to Germany and Spain

Magine is making waves in Sweden for its affordable, cloud-based cable TV service -- now the service is expanding to more places.

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Netflix gets more PBS shows, including exclusive on kids’ show Super Why!

Netflix has expanded its licensing agreement with PBS and got exclusive streaming rights to The Bletchley Circle and Super Why!. Last week, Amazon also made a deal with PBS to add more shows to Prime Instant Video.

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Top jobs of the week in digital media

Looking for a job in digital media? Each week we highlight some of the most interesting positions posted to paidContent's job board. Check out the latest gigs at media companies across the country.

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Andrew Sullivan may not have met his Daily Dish goal yet, but in many ways he has already won

Andrew Sullivan says that based on current conversion rates for his subscription-driven political blog The Daily Dish, he doesn't expect to hit his goal of raising $900,000 -- but despite that, he has still achieved a lot that is worth celebrating.

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Goodbye Google Reader, we’ll miss you

July 1 has come and gone, and so has Google Reader. Our post-mortem.

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J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore.com loses CEO as Redmayne heads back to HarperCollins

Virtual Harry Potter community and digital bookstore Pottermore.com is losing its CEO: Charlie Redmayne has been appointed CEO of HarperCollins U.K. So what does this mean for Pottermore?

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Six months in, Andrew Sullivan’s Dish hits 28,000 paid subs and revenues of $715k

Since politics blog The Dish went independent six months ago, it's raised $715,000 and has about 28,000 paid subscribers. That's close to its goal of $900,000 for the first year, but most of the subscriptions came very early on.

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Appeals court calls for “fair use” ruling in Google Books case

In a major new ruling in the Google Books case, the Second Circuit decertified a class action and told Judge Denny Chin to rule on whether Google's book scanning is fair use.

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Six digital publishing startups to watch

Want some different options for blogging and digital publishing? Here are six startups to check out.

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Welcome to the world’s largest book publisher: Penguin-Random House merger complete

Penguin and Random House have completed their merger, resulting in the world's largest book publisher: Penguin Random House.

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