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Litecoin price jumps 20 percent after hoax links the cryptocurrency and Walmart 

The Verge

Litecoin spiked Monday after a false press release claimed Walmart would accept the cryptocurrency | Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Walmart’s official newsroom never included the release, and the company typically uses Business Wire to distribute releases.

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Snap’s deal with Sony Music means it now partners with all three major music labels

The Verge

Snapchat will also start rolling out Sound Lenses, as noted in a press release on the Snap newsroom , featuring pre-selected songs and visual effects that make the subject look like they’re singing. Aside from the Big Three, the platform also partners with Warner Chappell, BMG, Kobalt, and more.

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They Made $30 Million Because Hackers Showed Them the Future

SecureWorld News

Now newsrooms learn about things from live streams, tweets, and posts that bounce around the world in seconds. One of the key exceptions: earnings releases and other material facts about companies. Over the course of the scheme, the hackers stole more than 100,000 press releases. Those times are long gone.

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Wall Street doesn’t care about the Facebook leaks. Mark Zuckerberg does.

Vox

Zuckerberg’s comments also raise questions about how he views the role of the press in reporting on his company to the public. Facebook previously released a public statement attacking the reporting consortium before the articles came out.

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Activision Blizzard and Epic Games halt sales of games in Russia

The Verge

The press release doesn’t specify whether the ban includes both digital and physical games. Epic Games Newsroom (@EpicNewsroom) March 5, 2022. The move bars Russians from any new transactions with the company, which includes both the sales of its games and in-game purchases.

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Amazon gave TV stations coronavirus propaganda, and some aired it

The Verge

These PR strategies have been deployed by corporations for decades, but a disturbing video put together by local news-focused outlet Courier Newsroom demonstrates how effective Amazon’s approach is and why so many companies use similar strategies to seed narratives to news media. Let us go inside a fulfillment centers with our own cameras.

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Seattlepi.com will try newsletter strategy in Hearst’s ‘next phase’ for former newspaper website

GeekWire

” That current audience of more than 1 million readers a month compares with 4 million monthly readers in 2012, according to a press release at the time marking the three-year anniversary of online-only publication. For example, newsroom employment at U.S. Seattlepi.com is far from alone in experiencing this trend.

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