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Flipboard acquires fellow content aggregator Zite from CNN

The Next Web - Way back in March 2011, we covered the launch of Zite, a free, personalized iPad magazine that promised to get “smarter” the more you use it. And now, more than two years after Zite was acquired by CNN, its news aggregation competitor Flipboard has snapped it up in a deal originally thought to be valued at around $60m, though Flipboard has since revealed that this number is “inaccurate”. Indeed, CNN now reports that this figure is more likely to be what the deal will eventually be worth.

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Oh boy, Flipboard was leaking user data for 9 months

If you use the Flipboard to get your daily dose of current events, you probably should stop reading this and go change your password.

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AT&T's fight to buy CNN, HBO could decide how you stream TV and movies

AT&T faces off with the Justice Department Monday in federal court hoping to succeed in its $85.4 billion bid for Time Warner.

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CNN is blaming Apple for a bug that spammed iPhone users with the same push notifications

At about 5pm ET on Tuesday, numerous people with iPhones received an Apple News push notification with a CNN headline about the false missile alarm in Hawaii.
Then they got the notification again. And again.
In a tweet, CNN's PR department said that their "server log shows CNN sent only one" alert and that they are "working with Apple to identify their issue."

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