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Esther Zuckerman / The Atlantic Wire:
Amazon Wants to Create Appointment TV Online, Not Follow Netflix Binging   —  Though Netflix may have emerged as the frontrunner when it comes to original streaming content, what with the successes of House of Cards and Arrested Development, don't expect Amazon to be following in its footsteps entirely.
Jun 19, 2013, 7:50 AMIn context
Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:
Reuters Fired Its Indicted Social Media Editor After Bad Social Media Editing   —  Thomson Reuters could handle its deputy social media editor, Matthew Keys, being indicted on federal hacking charges.  But after a week in which he was harshly criticized for inaccurate tweets to his 35,000-plus followers …
Apr 22, 2013, 10:05 PMIn context
Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:
News Feed Is Facebook's New Jackpot   —  “Advertisers want really rich things like big pictures or videos,” Mark Zuckerberg said on the last earnings call for his social network, “and we haven't provided those things historically.”  Well, even though he didn't say the word “advertiser” …
Mar 7, 2013, 5:40 PMIn context
J.K. Trotter / The Atlantic Wire:
Fake Google Glass eBay Auction Pulled After Bids Soar Past $15,000   —  Your plan to simply buy your way into the Google Glass early-adopter contest has been foiled.  On Wednesday morning an eBay auction immediately began raising eyebrows for how much bidders were driving up its price …
Feb 27, 2013, 12:00 PMIn context
Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:
Randi Zuckerberg Says Her Book Will Be a ‘Crazy’ Look at the ‘Front Lines’ of Facebook   —  Taking the next logical step in her quest to gin up as much celebrity as possible for being related to the CEO of Facebook and not much else, Silicon Valley media “personality” Randi Zuckerberg is writing …
Feb 14, 2013, 8:50 PMIn context
Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:
Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York Times Fakery   —  Elon Musk's long-awaited blog post take-down has arrived with what he claims is the data to prove New York Times John M. Broder reporter committed some sort of journalistic malpractice to run a bad review of the Tesla Model S's range capability.
Feb 14, 2013, 2:35 PMIn context
Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:
The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million New Show   —  With Netflix's foray into original, high quality programming today, the streaming TV network wants to turn into the HBO of Internet TV, but can the network afford it?  Putting together a big production with famous actors like House …
Feb 3, 2013, 10:37 PMIn context
Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire:
China May (or May Not) Be Behind the Twitter Hack   —  You may not have heard, but roughly 250,000 Twitter accounts may have been compromised by hackers.  There's a theory that — if you read between the lines — Twitter is implying the Chinese are to blame for compromising their security.
Feb 2, 2013, 11:45 AMIn context
Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:
Why Amtrak's New Wi-Fi Upgrade Won't Fix Amtrak's Terrible Wi-Fi   —  Amtrak has announced plans to test an upgrade of its notoriously inconsistent onboard Wi-Fi to faster 4G networks, but because the fix still uses Wi-Fi from a wireless company on a moving train, the best commuters can hope …
Jan 14, 2013, 1:20 AMIn context
Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:
Update: Apple Never Denied the Cheap iPhone Rumor After All   —  About those cheap iPhones that weren't, it turns out Apple's Phil Schiller might not have said the exact words that “they will never be the future.”  —  Update 3:00 p.m.: So, Schiller never said anything about cheap iPhones to the Shanghai Evening News, turns out.
Jan 11, 2013, 3:20 PMIn context

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