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8:40 AM ET, December 6, 2011

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Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: Chris Atkins, David Leigh, Charlotte Harris - live  —  Full coverage as the Starsuckers director, Guardian journalist and lawyer for phone-hacking victims give evidence  —  9.16am: The Independent points out that former information commissioner Richard Thomas told …
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James Cusick / The Independent:
Watchdog chief faces grilling over failure to act on press's dirty tricks  —  The Information Commissioner who presided over a massive investigation into newspapers' illegal use of a private investigator may have to explain this week why he told MPs no legal action was necessary despite …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
EC Opens Formal Antitrust Proceedings To Investigate E-book Sales ‘Cartel’  —  The European Commission this morning announced that it has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether a number of international ebook publishers have engaged in anti-competitive practices affecting …
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Europe Probing Apple And Publishers For E-book Price ‘Cartel’  —  After carrying out unannounced inspections at the companies back in March, the European Commission is now starting a formal antitrust investigation in to whether Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and book publishers are limiting e-book competition with their “agency” pricing model.
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Financial Times Launches Dedicated Android App  —  With mobile readers proving to be very avid readers of the Financial Times, the newspaper has launched a new version of its native Android app that it hopes will bring in more users on the platform on both smartphones and tablets.
New York Times:
Xbox Live Challenges the Cable Box  —  The old-fashioned cable television set-top box — long the hub of living-room entertainment for most people — is about to become less relevant.  —  Beginning on Tuesday and continuing through the month, Microsoft will give a face-lift …
Discussion: Multichannel News, PopWatch and Forbes
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft upgrades Xbox Live with 40 entertainment services, live TV, and Kinect voice control
Indiewire:
Exclusive: ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Producer Scott Rudin Replies To David Denby's Upcoming New Yorker Review Embargo Break  —  “They reviewed what?”  —  If you follow movie insider baseball news you may have heard the embargo on Sony's “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” is about to break tomorrow …
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Steve Pond / The Wrap:
Sony Furious Over New Yorker's Plan to Break ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Review Embargo
Discussion: Company Town, Poynter and NY Post
Linda Holmes / NPR:
Honor Among Thumbs: A ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Spat And An Imperfect System
Discussion: AllThingsD, Gothamist and Carpetbagger
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
For Local NBC Stations, Collaborative Journalism  —  In a sign of increasing collaboration between journalism groups, NBC on Tuesday will announce a series of partnerships between its television stations and nonprofit news organizations.  —  Effectively immediately, NBC's station in Chicago …
Discussion: Deadline.com
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Aaron Sorkin's HBO Cable News Series To Be Called ‘Newsroom’  —  Exclusive: The upcoming HBO drama about cable news from “The West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin finally has a name.  TVNewser has learned that HBO is expected to call the series “Newsroom.”  —  Sorkin's series follows fictional …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Kindle Fire Offers ‘Disappointingly Poor’ Experience; ‘Miserable’ Magazines  —  Will the projected 3.9 million Kindle Fire buyers this quarter end up disappointed with their new tablets?  User-experience guru Jakob Nielsen's new usability report finds the Fire's 7-inch screen troublesome …
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Wall Street Journal Releases Kindle Fire-Only App
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
What the media can learn from Occupy  —  In 30 years of reporting, I've never covered a story quite like Occupy Wall Street, the cacophonous drum line of a leaderless protest against greed and inequality (and a bunch of other stuff) that started in New York on Sept. 17 and spread quickly to Philadelphia on its path from coast to coast.
Reuters:
Australia scraps satellite TV tender in blow to Sky, News Corp.  —  Australia's government on Monday ruled out awarding a contract to broadcast local television into Asia to a consortium including Rupert Murdoch's part-owned Sky News, deciding the service would stay with the state broadcaster.
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Cox is latest to bring live TV to the iPad  —  Cox Communications is making live TV available on the iPad, with the release of a new app that lets subscribers watch shows and movies while in their homes.  The Cox TV Connect app makes it the latest in a series of pay TV operators to extend their services to new devices.
Rick Martin / Penn-Olson:
Flipboard Coming to China, Teams Up With Sina and Renren  —  Earlier this year you may recall that everyone's favorite iPad reading app Flipboard was blocked in China.  But apparently the GFW ain't no thang, as the company has made its way into China via big-name partnerships with none other than Sina …
Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
Bronfman Is Stepping Down as Warner Music Chairman  —  Edgar M. Bronfman Jr., who has been a top executive in the music industry since the mid-1990s, is stepping down as chairman of the Warner Music Group.
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Romney campaign doesn't appreciate unscripted appearance by reporter  —  Fox News allowed the Times' Jim Rutenberg to roam backstage Saturday night during a GOP candidates forum.  Upon seeing Rutenberg, “Mr. Romney's aides sprang into action, asking where he worked and what he was doing there …
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BBC:
Leveson Inquiry: Detective hired to follow Grant  —  Much of the evidence referred to during Alexander Owens's appearance was kept private  —  A private detective was hired by journalists to uncover personal details about celebrities including actor Hugh Grant, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.
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Martin Evans / The Telegraph:
Leveson inquiry: editors 'could have been prosecuted over private detective's blagging'
Discussion: Telegraph and The Independent
 
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John Cook / Gawker:
New York Times Staffers: Now Is the Time to Rat Out Your Colleagues
Elana Zak / 10,000 Words:
78 Percent Of U.K. Newspaper Articles Are Written By Men. Is U.S. Media Any Better?
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Media business chiefs brace for bleak 2012
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Five tough questions for newspaper organizations as they face investors this week
Discussion: Guardian and Future of Journalism
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Magazines Gird for USPS Nixing Saturday Delivery
 

 
From Techmeme:

Alphabet:
Alphabet Q1: revenue up 15% YoY to $80.5B, net income up 57% to $23.7B, Google Cloud revenue up 28% to $9.6B, and headcount down 5%; GOOG jumps 11%+ after hours

Microsoft:
Microsoft Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $61.9B, net income up 20% to $21.9B, Office Commercial revenue up 13%, LinkedIn revenue up 10%; MSFT jumps 4%+ after hours

Reuters:
Sources: ByteDance prefers a TikTok shutdown in the US rather than a sale if legal options fail, deeming TikTok's algorithm as core to overall ByteDance systems
 
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