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Newly Released FCC Documents Show Just How Frustrated Comcast Is With Netflix — Giant cable merger under fire — Comcast is tired of Netflix, that's for sure. The cable giant had to answer a number of difficult questions from the Federal Communications Commission last week …
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Dish, Writers Guild, Glenn Beck's TheBlaze, consumer groups, and more launch Stop Mega Comcast coalition to fight $45B TWC merger — Coalition Opposes Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger — A group of companies, public interest groups and labor unions have joined forces to urge regulators …
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Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal:
Lawyers say Apple deleted music from rival services on users iPods between 2007-2009 — Apple Deleted Rivals' Songs from Users' iPods — Apple deleted music that some iPod owners had downloaded from competing music services from 2007 to 2009 without telling users, attorneys …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Google and Facebook will have more than half of UK digital ad market — Advertising on websites, smartphones, video and social media will see UK operations make £4.1bn in 2015, according to report — Google and Facebook's domination of UK digital advertising has been underlined …
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
MemeTV wants to bring meme-worthy TV clips to Tumblr and Reddit — Imagine you watch something funny on TV. You grab your remote control, press a button, and seconds later, that scene arrives in an app on your phone. You edit it down to the key ten seconds, add a clever caption …
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Saavn Partners With Twitter To Bring Tweet-Powered Radio To Its Streaming Service — India-focused music service Saavn is upping its social game after it partnered with Twitter to introduce a tweet-powered radio station for its users. — The company serves up “millions” …
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dna, Trakin' the india …, MediaNama, TechTree.com, bgr.in, Radioandmusic.com and Indian Television Dot Com
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft sells its 17.6% stake in Nook back to Barnes & Noble for $62M and 2.7M shares — Microsoft sells its stake in Nook back to Barnes & Noble — Microsoft and Barnes & Noble unveiled a “strategic partnership” back in April 2012 which involved the software maker investing $300 million …
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Top Bloomberg Pursuits editors leave abruptly amid shakeup — The two top editors at Bloomberg Pursuits, the luxury personal finance magazine from Bloomberg LP, left the company on Wednesday. — Ted Moncrieff, the editor of Bloomberg Pursuits, had joined the magazine in December 2012.
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ABC News:
Al Qaeda Group Threatens American Hostage Luke Somers in New Video … Al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate Wednesday night showed an American hostage on camera for the first time, who officials say was the objective of a U.S. rescue attempt last week, threatening to kill him in three days if President Obama doesn't “meet our demands.”
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Sky to sell 80% stake in its betting unit Sky Bet to CVC Capital for up to $1.13B — Sky to Sell Controlling Stake in Betting Unit for Up to $1.13 Billion — The deal with private equity group CVC values Sky Bet at $1.3 billion — European pay TV giant Sky has agreed to sell …
Courtney Sherwood / Reuters:
U.S. broadcaster intends to test newsgathering drones in Oregon — (Reuters) - A U.S. media company said on Wednesday it wants to be among the first broadcasters to launch news-gathering drones once the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issues new policies governing the unmanned remote-control aircraft …
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Dismisses Yahoo Rumors, Talks Up HuffPo — To hear AOL CEO Tim Armstrong tell it, a merger with Yahoo might slow down his ongoing plans for an AOL turnaround. — Speaking during a keynote interview at Business Insider's Ignition conference in New York …
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