Mediagazer: Narrative Science shifts focus to data-driven stories for businesses, raises $10M led by USAA (John Pletz/Crain's Chicago Business)

6:30 PM ET, November 28, 2014

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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

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John Glenday / The Drum:

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Andy / TorrentFreak:

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

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John Pletz / Crain's Chicago Business:

Narrative Science shifts focus to data-driven stories for businesses, raises $10M led by USAA — Narrative Science raises $10 million from USAA — The tale of Narrative Science, a Northwestern University spinout that uses algorithms to turn data into stories, is getting more interesting.

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Michelle Castillo / Adweek:

BitTorrent Goes Legit With Its First Original Web Series — Peer-to-peer file sharing platform BitTorrent wants to change what the public thinks it does. Instead of being associated with all the illegal TV shows, movies and illicit content it can store, the tech company wants to be seen as a provider of premium legal content.

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Nisar Mahmood / The News International, Pakistan:

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New York Times:

A raid by US troops in Yemen sought to rescue an American journalist being held hostage by Al Qaeda — Rescuers in Yemen Sought American, Officials Say — WASHINGTON — An American journalist held hostage in a remote part of eastern Yemen by Al Qaeda's affiliate there was one of the main targets …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Newspaper Association of America finds 166M adults accessed digital newspaper content in October, up 17% over previous year — Newspapers see new peak in digital audience — U.S. newspapers' digital audience has hit a new peak, according to data being touted today by the Newspaper Association of America.

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Netflix Sues a Former Exec — Now Yahoo's CIO — For Allegedly Collecting Kickbacks — Netflix says a former executive collected kickbacks from vendors he helped connect to the streaming video company. — Now Netflix is suing its former employee, who is currently Yahoo's chief information officer.

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