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2:50 PM ET, December 4, 2014

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Ray Locker / USA Today:
Luke Somers named as hostage journalist US attempted to rescue last month in Yemen  —  Pentagon reports unsuccessful rescue attempt in Yemen  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. commandos made an unsuccessful attempt to rescue captive journalist Luke Somers in Yemen recently, the Pentagon reported Thursday …
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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.”
Adweek:
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 …
Discussion: Variety
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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 …
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 …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Inside T Brand Studio, The New York Times' native ad unit  —  Many publishers may see native advertising as their savior, but The New York Times has approached it with great ambivalence.  In introducing the Times' first native ad product, the publisher, Arthur Sulzberger …
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” …
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 …
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.
Discussion: FishbowlNY, @joepompeo and @aubernalevy
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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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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