Topic: Partnerships

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    Amazon Forces Refund Changes on Angry Sellers (Aug 2, 2017)

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    Snapchat is Partnering with College Newspapers for Campus Content (Aug 1, 2017)

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    Lyft Partners with Amtrak to Offer First and Last Mile Options for Train Riders (Aug 1, 2017)

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    Samsung Reported to be Opening Samsung Pay to Other Device Vendors (Jul 27, 2017)

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    Facebook Provides Official Update on Progress Working with News Organizations (Jul 20, 2017)

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    Microsoft Teases a Cortana-Powered Thermostat Made by Johnson Controls (Jul 19, 2017)

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    Facebook Confirms News Subscriptions Coming in October (Jul 19, 2017)

    Campbell Brown, the former news anchor Facebook appointed as head of News Partnerships in January, has finally confirmed what’s been rumored for some time now, namely that Facebook is readying a subscription product for newspapers. It sounds like it will adopt the familiar though not universal approach of allowing readers to access ten articles before having to pay for a subscription to a given publication, though it’s not clear that the ten articles will include those readers read separately in their browsers, so that will be a key point for papers to nail down before signing up. Another will be payments and how those will work, since Facebook still doesn’t have credit card details from the vast majority of its users. Since some publications don’t allow any free articles before the paywall kicks in, this won’t be a perfect or universal solution, but on paper should neutralize one of the big criticisms of Facebook’s gobbling up of news consumption. However, given that this has been in the works for some time, and the largest publications will be aware of that, the recent PR push by the News Media Alliance against both Facebook and Google suggests that it certainly won’t assuage all their concerns. Update: also today, Facebook announced analytics for Instant Articles with support from Nielsen, to allow publishers to compare results from their IA and web-based versions. The lack of comparable analytics has been another bugbear for the news organizations using IA, so this should check another box in resolving those concerns, at least on paper.

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    ★ Uber Joins Forces with Yandex in Russian Ride Sharing Market (Jul 13, 2017)

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    Google’s Second Generation Pixel XL Renders Leak, with LG as ODM (Jul 11, 2017)

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    Spotify Signs Deal with Sony Music, Leaving Just Warner Among Majors (Jul 11, 2017)

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    Stripe Partners with Alipay, WeChat Pay (Jul 10, 2017)

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    Apple Disputes Imagination Tech Account of Unwinding of Relationship (Jul 7, 2017)

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    Amazon and DISH Reportedly Discussing IoT or Other Wireless Partnership (Jul 6, 2017)

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    Amazon’s Alexa Now Has 15,000 “Skills” (Apps) (Jul 5, 2017)

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    Apple News Reportedly Readying Ad Platform Integration for Publishers (Jul 5, 2017)

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    Baidu Fleshes out its Open Platform for Autonomous Driving (Jul 5, 2017)

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    Uber’s Leasing Company Referrals in NYC Lead to Predatory Contracts (Jun 27, 2017)

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    ★ Sprint Enters Exclusive Talks with Charter, Comcast for Partnership or Merger (Jun 27, 2017)

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    ★ Apple Leases Cars from Hertz for Autonomous Technology Testing (Jun 26, 2017)

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    Sprint’s Virgin Mobile Goes iPhone-Only in Relaunch (Jun 22, 2017)

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