Mediagazer: Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, in apparent “DM fail”, expresses support for buying unnamed company (Brian R. Fitzgerald/Wall Street Journal)

11:15 AM ET, November 25, 2014

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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

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Brian R. Fitzgerald / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, in apparent “DM fail”, expresses support for buying unnamed company — Twitter CFO Appears to Succumb to the ‘DM Fail’ While Talking M&A — Anthony Noto is one of us now. — Twitter 's financial chief appeared to commit the classic “DM fail” …

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Scott Lewis / Voice of San Diego:

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Dave Winer / Scripting News:

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Richard Nieva / CNET:

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:

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Paul Carsten / Reuters:

China's Tencent partners with HBO for TV show streaming — (Reuters) - Chinese Internet firm Tencent Holdings Ltd is partnering with Time Warner Inc's HBO network to stream its TV shows, which are known for their provocative content and may draw scrutiny from the country's authorities.

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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:

Amazon Prime Music Debuts First Exclusive Content — Amazon has made exclusive video a component of Prime Instant Video streaming service, its answer to Netflix. Now the company is doing the same with music — sort of. Amazon quietly debuted last week its first exclusive music release …

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Katherine Bindley / New York Times:

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Jason Koebler / Motherboard:

Heavy Censorship in Pakistan Shows Why the Next Arab Spring Won't Be on Facebook — If you tried to access the Facebook page of one of Pakistan's most popular bands, Laal, between June 5 and 7th, you were out of luck: Facebook blocked the band's page within the country after receiving a censorship request from the government.