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Mobile Minutes: Pandora to expand; Twitter’s Quality Filter; Disney throws a curveball; Facebook traffic to news sites

27313Pandora nears deals for on-demand streaming
Pandora Media Inc. is aiming to start expanding its internet-radio service as soon as next month, offering its hallmark free tier as well as two new monthly subscription options that will mark its foray into on-demand music streaming, said people familiar with the matter.
Read more on The Wall Street Journal

Twitter rolls out quality filter feature for all users
Twitter has announced that it has begun rolling out what it calls a Quality Filter feature for all of its users. The new feature allows users to filter their notifications in order to only see mentions from people that they’re following.
Read more on International Business Times

What’s behind Disney’s $1B investment in major league baseball’s digital arm
Disney is a conglomerate known for throwing big bucks at content powerhouses like Marvel and Lucasfilm, so its $1 billion investment in Major League Baseball’s BAMTech video unit last week was something of a curveball.
Read more on Variety

Facebook traffic to US news sites has fallen by double digits, report says
A leading web analytics company says in a new report that traffic from Facebook to some of the top news publishers declined at double-digit rates in the second quarter of this year.
Read more on Fortune