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3:15 AM ET, September 17, 2015

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CNBC:
Sources: Cablevision to be acquired by European telecoms company Altice for $17.7B including debt  —  Altice to buy Cablevision for $17.7B including debt: Sources  —  Acquisitive Netherlands-based telecoms company Altice will buy U..S. cable television provider Cablevision for $17.7 billion including debt, sources told CNBC.
Kara Andrade / The Huffington Post:
Méxicoleaks has uncovered a number of major scandals since its launch  —  Méxicoleaks has uncovered a number of major scandals since its launch.
Bloomberg L.P.:
Twitter and Bloomberg sign licensing deal increasing Twitter data available in terminals and offering a curated feed of financial tweets  —  Bloomberg and Twitter Sign Data Licensing Agreement  —  Bloomberg adds enhanced custom alerts and tools to its Twitter offering
Peter Sterne / Politico:
SEC filing indicates BuzzFeed aims to raise an additional $100M to add to earlier $200M from NBCUniversal  —  Buzzfeed could raise another $100 million in current funding round  —  Buzzfeed could raise an additional $100 million as part of its current funding round, according to documents that the company filed with the SEC today.
James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:
La Presse to drop weekday print edition beginning January 1, 2016, push readers to La Presse+ tablet edition  —  Quebec's La Presse to scrap weekday print edition to focus on app  —  La Presse will scrap its weekday print edition starting Jan. 1, staking its future on its popular tablet app …
Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
Warner Bros. Sells Digital Content Distribution Service to Vubiquity as It Trims Costs  —  Warner Bros. is outsourcing its digital content distribution business as it fights to trim overhead costs.  —  The studio sold its Digital-End-to-End managed content service to Vubiquity …
Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:
Facebook to start using browsing data from Like and Share buttons in its ad targeting system starting next month, opt-out setting available  —  Facebook's Like Buttons Will Soon Track Your Web Browsing to Target Ads  —  Facebook's “Like” buttons have been logging data on our browsing for years …
Discussion: Facebook and @dangillmor
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
How Recode, Reuters, Popular Science, The Week, Mic, The Verge, and USA Today's FTW have continued talking with readers after shutting off comments  —  What happened after 7 news sites got rid of reader comments  —  Recode, Reuters, Popular Science, The Week, Mic, The Verge …
Discussion: @burgos
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
CBS All Access now available for Android TV, sources say coming to Apple TV and other platforms soon  —  CBS plans to bring All Access service to Apple TV, other platforms in the near future  —  CBS plans to bring its $5.99/month All Access subscription service, which offers a mix …
Nora Doyle-Burr / Concord Monitor:
Public library in New Hampshire votes to continue supporting Tor for anonymous browsing despite concerns from DHS, police and local government  —  West Lebanon library to keep backing Tor  —  From left, Mary Sorens, of West Lebanon, N.H., Carla Gericke, of Manchester, N.H., Jason Sorens …
Discussion: The Verge, Slate, Fortune, Techdirt and NPR
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
AT&T Taps Former Sirius XM, Cisco Exec as Video and Internet CTO  —  Enrique Rodriguez joins telco after former DirecTV CTO Rômulo Pontual exits  —  AT&T has hired Enrique Rodriguez as executive VP and chief technical officer for its Entertainment and Internet business …
Discussion: Multichannel News
Open State Foundation:
Open State Foundation has uploaded Politwoops' archive of 1M deleted politician tweets to the Internet Archive  —  Open State preserves Politwoops' history on the net  —  In a move to preserve the public record for everyone, Open State has uploaded its complete Politwoops archive …
Ken Doctor / Politico:
Amazon offers Prime members Washington Post National Digital Edition subscriptions free for six months, then $48 per year  —  Jeff Bezos (finally) pumps up the Post with Prime  —  In a potentially game-changing move, Amazon will begin offering free to dirt-cheap subscriptions to The Washington Post …
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Sources: Apple is keeping TikTok and other ByteDance apps on its US App Store for at least another 75 days, following assurances from AG Pam Bondi

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