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Skype will soon let you record your calls

sudshr47 July 17, 2018

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Get ready, podcasters. Skype will let you record your calls soon. 

It’s been almost 15 years since Skype, the over-the-internet audio call and video chat app, first launched. Since then, it’s been acquired by eBay for $2.5 billion, then Microsoft for $8.5 billion. Skype is also now available on a multitude of desktop and mobile operating systems.

But somehow, through all these years, Skype has been missing a basic feature: call recording. Users have constantly sought out workarounds after their requests for this feature to be baked into the software have seemingly gone ignored. But now, for the first time, Skype’s finally getting a built-in recording feature. Read more…

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Get your trusted midterm elections news from us, says Apple

sudshr47 June 25, 2018

Apple News has a new old mission: Curating political news and analysis by paying a team of experienced human editors to quality-assess journalism, rather than letting unchecked algorithms run wild and exaggerate anything — no matter how awful, obnoxious or untrue. ‘Fakebook’ eat your heart out. Apple says human curation is not a new direction […]

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Taiwan-based media startup The News Lens raises Series C for its international growth plans

sudshr47 June 20, 2018

The News Lens launched in 2013 as an independent news site for Taiwanese readers disenchanted with the country’s tabloid-ridden media. Now it has 9 million monthly unique readers, offices in Taipei and Hong Kong and just announced it has raised a Series C. The Taipei-based startup did not disclose the exact amount of the round, […]

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People are switching from Facebook to WhatsApp for news

sudshr47 June 15, 2018

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With all the hot water Facebook has been in for the role of news on its platform, it looks like the social media giant is getting what it wanted.

A new study from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found that the use of Facebook for news has declined. Instead, people are turning to messaging apps — most notably WhatsApp — to receive and share news.

The study’s data come from surveys conducted by YouGov of representative sample populations in countries around the world. 

Researchers found that social media use for news is down 6 percent in the United States, which is almost all due to a decline in the use of Facebook for news. Specifically, the use of Facebook for news on a weekly basis declined 9 percent from 2016 to 2018, and 20 percent amongst “younger groups.” Read more…

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Tronc starts its new digital strategy with a majority stake in product review site BestReviews

sudshr47 February 8, 2018

 Tronc, the company formerly known as Tribune Publishing, announced today that it now owns a majority stake in BestReviews, which publishes in-depth reviews of consumer products. In another announcement today, Tronc said that it intends to use fun…

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Rupert Murdoch wants Facebook to pay publishers, which is adorable

sudshr47 January 22, 2018

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Should Twitter pay me for my tweets?

Sure! I post great stuff, which is why people go on Twitter — to find great stuff. I, and everyone else who post good stuff, should get paid. 

Is Twitter going to pay me for my tweets? Hahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha. No. 

Yet that exact situation is what Rupert Murdoch proposed for Facebook. On Monday, the media mogul released a statement calling for Facebook to begin paying “trusted publishers.”

“If Facebook wants to recognize ‘trusted’ publishers then it should pay those publishers a carriage fee similar to the model adopted by cable companies,” Murdoch wrote.  Read more…

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Facebook became your news diet. Now, it’s going to serve you junk.

sudshr47 January 17, 2018

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Forget about media outlets and Facebook — worry about readers. 

Facebook’s 2 billion monthly users have come to rely on the social network as a way to keep up with the news. Now Facebook is limiting the reach of news publishers, leaving a vacuum to be filled with… well, it’s anyone’s best guess.

The change is simple. Facebook is going to show users more posts that their friends and family have either created, shared, or commented on. In turn, Facebook is reducing the reach of pages including news outlets. That may sound innocuous, but the shift turns up the dial on the signals that help amplify fake news. And there’s no way to tell how bad this is going to get — not even Facebook knows for sure. Read more…

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11-year-old girl’s dream to become a journalist gets the support of the Washington Post

sudshr47 January 12, 2018

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Children really do have a way of reminding us all—even in the bleakest of times—that there are good things in the world. 

This 11-year-old girl’s silent efforts to prepare for a future career in journalism are so impressive, The Washington Post invited her to spend a day with them. 

Liam Stack—a reporter at the New York Times—tweeted that he’d found out his cousin’s 11-year-old daughter had secretly downloaded The Washington Post app two years ago, and had been a “loyal reader” since then. 

Today I learned that my cousin’s 11 year old daughter somehow downloaded The Washington Post app — without my cousin’s knowledge — at the age of 9 and has been a loyal reader for the last two years.

— Liam Stack (@liamstack) January 11, 2018 Read more…

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