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Dana Neuts is Subscription Insider's Editorial Director, covering our daily subscription news as well as member features, case studies, premium content, and reports. Dana is also a writer, editor, marketer and communications professional. Her work has appeared in AARP Bulletin, The Seattle Times, Seattle Business, 425 Business, 425 Magazine, South Sound Magazine, Northwest Travel and more. Her specialties include business writing, community news, senior issues, travel and, of course, subscriptions!

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Tribune Publishing Co. Finally Abandons tronc Brand

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After two-plus years of ridicule and misunderstanding of Tribune Publishing’s new brand, tronc with a lowercase T, the company is taking back its name. The return to Tribune Publishing Co. goes into effect today after the close of NASDAQ trading. The company’s new ticker symbol will be TPCO. Based in Chicago, Tribune owns the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, Hartford Courant, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida’s Sun Sentinel, the New York Daily News, and The Virginian-Pilot among other newspapers.

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High Times Buys Seattle-Based DOPE Magazine for $11.2 Million

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High Times Holding Corp., the owner of High Times magazine, announced it will acquire Dope magazine for $11.2 million. Dope magazine currently publishes eight local editions in six states. Its annual circulation is 1 million, including distribution at cannabis retailers. In addition to the magazine, High Times is acquiring Dope’s website, events business and staff including CEO George Jage and founders Dave Tran, James Zochondi and Evan Carter, reports Media Post. Already this year, High Times acquired Culture magazine, available in 10 markets across the U.S., Canada and the U.K., and Green Rush Daily.

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Weekly Subscription News: Family Plans, Forever21 and FabFitFun

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In this week’s subscription headlines, MoviePass is trying to force lapsed subscribers back into the service, Global Payments acquires a food service SaaS for $415 million, and Nintendo Switch Online’s companion app has already been downloaded 5 million times. Also this week, the Gap pulls the plug on subscription clothing boxes, Telstra is ordered to refund AU$9.3 million for bad billing practices, and subscription box service FabFitFun launches a daily Facebook show.

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Microsoft Launches ‘Surface All Access’ Subscription Bundle

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Microsoft has added a new subscription product to its list of offerings – Surface All Access. Starting at $24.99 a month, subscribers get a Surface bundle with access to Office 365, 24 months of consumer financing at 0 percent by WebBank through Dell Financial Services, equipment protection, in -store training and support. Four of the five Surface bundles are available on October 16. The fifth bundle, the Surface Studio bundle, will be available November 15.

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Five on Friday: Subscription Index, Freemium Success, Top Jobs

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In this weeks edition of Five on Friday, PYMNTS tells us about fitness-as-a-service for business travelers using the subscription model, Zuora publishes the subscription economy index for the second quarter of 2018, Digital Commerce 360 explains why smooth payment processes are key to shopper satisfaction, Hubspot offers freemium success secrets, and LinkedIn posts a variety of top subscription jobs.

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Hackers Find Security Loophole Impacting Nearly 50 Million Facebook Users

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Facebook is in the hot seat again. Last Friday, Facebook disclosed that hackers found a security loophole caused by three separate bugs that affected nearly 50 million Facebook accounts. According to Guy Rosen, vice president of product management, hackers used Facebook’s “View As” feature to steal access tokens, allowing them to take over people’s accounts. Facebook said these tokens are the equivalent to digital keys which allow users to stay logged into the app without having to retype their password each time.

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Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 for All U.S. Staff

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Yesterday was a good day to smile if you are an Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) employee. The company announced it would raise its minimum wage to $15.00 per hour for all U.S. staff, including full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal employees. The change goes into effect November 1. It will impact more than 350,000 employees, including 100,000 seasonal staff and associates hired from temp agencies, as well as Whole Foods employees and other Amazon subsidiaries.

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CollegeHumor to Launch Streaming Subscription Service ‘Dropout’

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Last week, comedy website CollegeHumor announced that it will be launching Dropout, a new streaming video subscription service. The new service will be uncensored and ad-free and feature mixed-media with original programming, animation, comics and other content, reports Variety. Dropout launched last Wednesday in public beta online and in mobile browsers. An expanded launch on iOS and Android is planned for November.

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SiriusXM to Buy Pandora for $3.5 Billion in All-Stock Transaction

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In big acquisition news, last week SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced it would acquire satellite radio station and streaming music subscription service Pandora (NYSE: P) for $3.5 billion in an all-stock transaction. According to SiriusXM, this acquisition will create the world’s largest audio entertainment company with revenue exceeding $7 billion in pro-forma revenue this year. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals. The boards of both companies have unanimously approved the deal. The deal is expected to close during the first quarter of 2019.

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Weekly Subscription News: Indie Games, Dating and Digital Publishing

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In this week’s subscription headlines, Facebook is testing an online dating app in Colombia, the Nintendo Switch Online NES Emulator has already been hacked, and Audi lets its subscribers switch out cars twice a month for just $1,395 per month. Also this week, Mic may be up for sale, Billboard buys entertainment news site Amplify and The Street says Red Hat is stuck as subscription questions loom.

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