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August 15, 2016, 6:30 PM
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Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Twitter debuts Promoted #Stickers for brands, starting with Pepsi; clicking on a Promoted Sticker takes you to tweets containing the same sticker  —  Platform Pursuing Its Turn Toward the Visual  —  Twitter has introduced its first “#Promoted Stickers” campaign, with Pepsi as its inaugural customer.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
KGI: Apple planning three new iPads in 2017 including a 10.5" iPad Pro, and an iPad with flexible AMOLED in 2018 at the earliest  —  Noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a new research report outlining his expectations for the future of Apple's iPad lineup, predicting three new iPads ranging …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Sources: Twitter in talks with Apple to bring its app to Apple TV, hoping to fully capitalize on its live-streaming deals with NFL, MLB, NBA, Wimbledon, others  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Last March, Twitter and Facebook, along with other tech companies, faced off over which of them would get the rights …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Linux bug lets attackers remotely hijack internet traffic on phones running Android 4.4 or later  —  Off-path attack means malicious hackers can be located anywhere on the Internet.  —  An estimated 80 percent of Android phones contain a recently discovered vulnerability that allows attackers …
The Intercept:
New Zealand intel requested and received emails, Facebook chats of Fiji pro-democracy activists from NSA; first publicly confirmed PRISM target is a NZ citizen  —  Tony Fullman is a middle-aged former tax man and a pro-democracy activist.  But four years ago, a botched operation launched …
Kate Conger / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn files suit against 100 anonymous data scrapers, invoking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act  —  LinkedIn is trying to lock down its exclusive relationship with its users.  —  The professional networking company filed suit against 100 unnamed individuals last week for using bots to harvest user profiles from its website.

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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
The White House has blocked CNN from traveling with President Trump on Air Force One on Saturday to Knoxville, TN, jeopardizing the rotational TV pool

Christofer Hamilton / The Wrap:
Parrot Analytics: global demand for Spanish- and Portuguese-language streaming series has risen 25% since 2024, with demand rising 100%+ in East Asia and Turkey

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Paramount prepares to close the WBD deal by setting a date to distribute stock warrants in a new entity, but says the closing date is not yet certain

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