Breaking industry stories we’ve been following this week:
The Big News: American Airlines suffers delays due to iPad software glitch (Money); The Huffington Post leads in digital news (FishbowlNY); Live Nation taking over Bonnaroo (L.A. BIZ); and Soundcloud making podcasting easier (The Observer)
Talking Points: Mom goes viral for slapping son during Baltimore Riots (CNN) and Al Jazeera America being sued for discrimination (POLITICO)
New Launches: Yahoo to launch 18 shows (FishbowlNY); Japan premieres La Farfa, first plus-sized women’s publication (BuzzFeed); Bloomberg Business launches European online edition, other regional brands to follow (Talking Biz News); Sad Cat Software delivers Bloom, procedural graphics editor (Virtual Strategy Magazine); Instagram launches its first vertical, @music (BuzzFeed); and The New Yorker and WNYC come together to launch national radio show and podcast (CAPITAL)
What’s Next: AOL and NBC announce content partnership (The New York Times); Yahoo‘s Melissa Mayer working on two messaging apps (Business Insider); and VICE gets cable channel (The New York Post)
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