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10:20 AM ET, November 4, 2011

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Darren Murph / Engadget:
B&N launching Nook Tablet for $249 on November 16th, and we've got the dirty details  —  Sitting down?  Good.  Come November 16th, Amazon's Kindle Fire will have company.  We've wrapped our paws around a stash of documents confirming the impending launch of the first bona fide tablet in the Nook line …
Wall Street Journal:
Google Ponders Pay-TV Business  —  Pilot Project in Kansas City Would Rival Cable, Satellite  —  Internet giant Google Inc. is considering a plan to offer paid cable-TV services to consumers, a move that could unleash a new wave of competition within the traditional TV business.
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
AP issues staff guidelines on retweets, no ‘personal opinions’ allowed or implied  —  The Associated Press has added a new entry on retweeting to its social media guidelines.  Staffers are reminded to keep their opinions to themselves. … Disclaimers — like “retweets do not constitute endorsements” …
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
CBS turned down an ad-based Apple TV deal  —  CBS CEO Les Moonves is known to occasionally drop pieces of information that he's not supposed to on his company's earnings calls, and this quarter was no exception.  When asked about CBS's appetite for striking deals with new streaming providers …
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
HLN Finally Launches a Website To Call Its Own  —  HLN's web presence has long been relegated to a subsection of CNN.com.  That in and of itself is not a bad thing, as CNN has one of the strongest digital presences of any news organization.  But as the focus of coverage by CNN and HLN have diverged …
Discussion: HLNtv.com
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
News Corp HR chief quits  —  Beryl Cook, who has been with the firm for 22 years, says she wants to return to Asia to be closer to her family  —  News Corp's top human resources executive has quit the media conglomerate as it deals with the effects of a phone-hacking scandal at its UK newspapers.
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Business Wire:
Beryl Cook to Step Down as Chief Human Resources Officer of News Corporation
Discussion: Poynter
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Murdoch fails to win Hunt's full backing
Discussion: Press Gazette
Adam Hochberg / Poynter:
U.S. Marshals ordered to seize Righthaven assets  —  A federal court has ordered U.S. Marshals to seize $63,720 in assets from Righthaven - the embattled Law Vegas company that files copyright infringement lawsuits.  Righthaven tried to make money by acquiring the copyrights to newspaper articles …
Discussion: paidContent
David Kaplan / paidContent:
@ pcE11: Dawn Ostroff: Streaming Is Better Than DVRs For Advertising  —  Veteran TV exec Dawn Ostroff has only been in her job as the head of Condé Nast's new entertainment unit for three weeks, so it made sense that she didn't have much to say about that work when she sat …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Kimberly Dozier / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook … McLEAN, Va. (AP) — In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets - up to 5 million a day.  —  At the agency's Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the “vengeful librarians” …
Steven Jacobs / Street Fight:
Main Street Connect Announces New CEO, $7 Million in Funding  —  Main Street Connect, the network of hyperlocal news sites, announced yesterday that Thompson Reuters' Global Head of Product Management Zohar Yardeni would come on as CEO, replacing founder Carll Tucker who will become chairman of the company's board of directors.
C. Custer / Penn-Olson:
Chinese Government on TV Content: No Net Video Allowed!  —  China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has been on the warpath recently.  First, they threw a haymaker at China's sattelite TV stations by slashing the number of “entertainment” programs allowed daily …
Discussion: paidContent
Evan Smith / The Texas Tribune:
T-Squared: The Texas Tribune's Two-Year Stats … Yep, today's the second anniversary of our launch — a big deal for a whole bunch of reasons (can't believe we got here, look how much we've accomplished, maybe this thing will work after all).  No fancy or elaborate celebration …
Discussion: Poynter
Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:
Magazine publishers divided over giving digital issues for free  —  Summary: Giving away digital magazines for free could be a backwards and detrimental step for the publishing industry.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Offering full, digital copies of magazines on tablets for free to existing print subscribers …
Discussion: MediaPost
Nia-Malika Henderson / Washington Post:
Cain camp considering legal action against Politico  —  A Herman Cain aide said Thursday that the Cain campaign is considering its legal options over the original Politico story, which revealed that the former head of the National Restaurant Association was accused of sexually harassing at least two women during his tenure in the 1990s.
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
The Journal Fizzles on Occupy Oakland Protest  —  Several thousand Occupy movement protestors shut down the Port of Oakland yesterday, a week after Oakland police attacked the protest with tear gas and, allegedly, flashbang grenades and rubber bullets.  Big news story.
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Matthew Fleischer / FishbowlLA:
Cartoonist Susie Cagle Arrested at Occupy Oakland Protests
Discussion: Poynter, TVSpy, FishbowlNY and ShortFormBlog
 
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram from its App Store in China, after orders from the country's regulators citing national security concerns

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Hacking group GhostR claims it stole 5.3M records from World-Check screening database, used for KYC checks for sanctions and financial crime links, in March

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Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets
 
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