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9:00 AM ET, December 4, 2014

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 Top News: 
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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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 …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
BuzzFeed expanding San Francisco bureau to 20 staffers, hires Mat Honan from Wired as bureau chief  —  Wired's Mat Honan Hired to Run New Buzzfeed Silicon Valley Bureau  —  Matt Honan, the high-profile Wired writer and editor, has been hired by Buzzfeed to be its new Silicon Valley bureau chief.
Human Rights Watch:
Iran extends Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian's pretrial detention for two more months  —  Iran: Journalist's Detention Extended  —  Washington Post Reporter Held 4 Months, but Not Charged  —  (Beirut) - Iran's judiciary has extended Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian's pretrial detention for another two months.
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 …
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 …
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: @joepompeo and @aubernalevy
Jim Romenesko:
TheStreet.com investor urges Jim Cramer to take a 70% pay cut or sell the company  —  The head of Cannell Capital hedge fund wants Jim Cramer to consider two options: quit CNBC and focus on TheStreet.com at significantly reduced pay; or sell the 18-year-old financial news website.  —  J. Carlo Cannell writes:
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 …
Gustavo Arellano / Navel Gazing:
Layoffs at Freedom's OC Register, Riverside Press-Enterprise, affecting 100, mostly in sales  —  100 Layoffs Happening at OC Register, Riverside P-E TODAY: UPDATE  —  1ST UPDATE, 11:40 A.M.: Here's a note from new Orange County Register publisher Rich Mirman explaining the layoffs to his crew.
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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New York Times:
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From Techmeme:

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending
 
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