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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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Streaming Music Platform SoundCloud to Cut 40 Percent of Staff

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In a blog post from SoundCloud co-founder and CEO Alex Ljung last week, SoundCloud announced it would cut 173 jobs and consolidate its team into its Berlin and New York offices, closing its London and San Francisco offices. The job cuts represent approximately 41 percent of the company’s workforce of 420 employees, reported Business Insider. Ljung said the company needs to cut costs and grow advertising and subscription revenue to reach profitability and to remain in control of the streaming music platform’s future.

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Payment Processor Vantiv to Buy Worldpay for $10 Billion

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On July 4, Worldpay Group PLC announced via the London Stock Exchange that it had been approached by Vantiv Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Bank about a possible acquisition. The companies were given until August 1 to make a firm offer or to withdraw themselves from consideration. News of a potential sale drove up stock prices by about 23 percent, reports The New York Times, bringing the company’s value to about $10.5 billion or 8 billion pounds.

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This Week’s Subscription News: Albums, Amazon and Anti-Spam

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In this week’s subscription news, Think Progress leaves Medium, moving its content back to WordPress platform as of August 1, new Tidal subscribers were locked out of streaming Jay Z’s new album ‘4:44,’ and Verizon launches an anti-spam call subscription service. Also this week, we’re reading about Amazon’s next Prime Day, a Photobucket decision that will cause billions of online error messages, and what Headspace will do with $37 million.

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Amazon Primes the Pump for Its Third Annual Prime Day on July 11

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Last week Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that its third annual Prime Day will be next Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Expanding to China, India and Mexico, Prime Day will be available in 13 countries, so Prime members in those countries will get access to hundreds of thousands of deals for 30 straight hours, starting at 6 PM Pacific Time/9 PM Eastern on July 10. Amazon says that nearly 40 percent of lightning deals worldwide will come from small businesses and entrepreneurs on Prime Day too.

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Five on Friday: Managing Churn, Business Podcasts & Effective Meetings

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With the Fourth of July on Tuesday, this was a short week, but were still bringing you a full weeks worth of subscription content. In this weeks Five on Friday, Multichannel Merchant explains four steps to manage voluntary customer churn, AllBusiness recommends business podcasts every entrepreneur should listen to, Facebook is working with publishers to create an in-app subscription option by year end, Venmo is testing a physical debit card for payments, and Inc. offers its top tips for successful meetings (hint: 10 AM is the golden hour for meetings).

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Yahoo Mail Releases Major Redesign Including Ad-Free Subscriptions

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Last week Yahoo introduced the new Yahoo Mail to help its 225 million users get more organized with a faster, more personalized and streamlined email experience, reports TechCrunch. The redesigned Yahoo Mail includes more robust search functionality by contact name, date or keyword; colorful themes, stationary, emojis and GIFs, and views to organize content like photos and documents visually. Also, Yahoo Mail will launch more quickly and use less memory to make it more reliable and agile for developers, TechCrunch says.

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Microsoft Reorganization Shifts Focus Toward Growing Cloud Business

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For the last week, news organizations have been eagerly anticipating an announcement of a major reorganization at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) which, reportedly, would include thousands of layoffs. According to GeekWire, on July 3, an internal memo to staff from Executive Vice President of Worldwide Commercial Business Judson Althoff, Executive Vice President of Global Sales, Marketing & Operations Jean-Philippe Courtois, and Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Marketing and Consumer Business Chris Capossela outlined the reorganization of its consumer and commercial businesses, but it did not mention the layoffs.

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Tinder Launches Tinder Gold, a Members-Only Premium Subscription

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If you’re looking for love – or lust – in all the wrong places, Tinder wants to help. That’s why they’ve created Tinder Gold, “a first-class swipe experience.” With Tinder Gold, members get access to the dating app’s exclusive features including Passport, Rewind, Unlimited Likes, five Super Likes per day, one Boost per month and more profile controls, said the announcement. The biggest perk, however, is the new “Likes You” feature where you can see who likes you before you swipe, because who wants to risk swiping right when the other person may not swipe back? Tinder will start testing Tinder Gold in Argentina, Australia, Canada and Mexico first, and it will eventually roll out to all users.

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Updates: Vive, New York Times, Apple Music, Vimeo and Toronto Star

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Periodically, we do a round-up of past stories to give readers an update on what subscription companies we’ve covered previously are doing now. Here are a few companies that have been in the news recently. In this round-up, we’ve got updates from Vive on their Viveport virtual reality subscription, a newsroom walkout at The New York Times, Apple Music’s new annual subscription offer, Vimeo bailing on its planned OTT subscription, and Toronto Star discontinuing its Star Touch tablet app.

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This Week’s Subscription News: Reuters, Record Labels & Reorganization

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In this week’s subscription news, News Corp and Facebook are in advanced talks about subscriptions, Reuters launches its own custom content studio called Reuters Plus, and Bloomberg News is the latest news organization to endure staff cuts amid a reorganization. Also this week, we’re reading subscription headlines about Surf Air’s expansion into Europe, FOX’s success with six-second ads, and Vice Media’s new meal kit service with Chef’d.

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