Mediagazer: Appeal of Activision-Vivendi ruling to be heard Oct. 10 (Reuters)

6:15 PM ET, September 23, 2013

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Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

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Reuters:

Appeal of Activision-Vivendi ruling to be heard Oct. 10 — (Reuters) - Activision Blizzard Inc will make its argument before Delaware's Supreme Court next month to overturn a lower court's surprise decision to halt the video game company's planned $8.2 billion deal with French media conglomerate Vivendi SA.

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Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

FilmOn owner blasts Aereo CEO with expletive-ridden threat — Alki David accuses Aereo of launching DDoS attack against FilmOn — Some hostile, accusatory, and cryptic messages were sent Sunday afternoon from the Twitter account of Alki David, the billionaire owner of FilmOn web TV service.

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Marc Tracy / The New Republic:

How The New Yorker Cover Became Twitter Gold — The legendary magazine alters its DNA for the Internet era — The first really talked-about New Yorker cover came nearly 70 years after the magazine's founding. In 1992, when Tina Brown took over as just the fourth editor in its history …

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