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5:00 PM ET, September 26, 2015

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Isaac Salier-Hellendag / Facebook:
Facebook rolling out redesigned Notes with options for images, captions, other formatting  —  Updates for Facebook Notes  —  We're rolling out an update to make notes on Facebook more beautiful and customizable.  Notes are now an even better way to write a longer post and share with anyone …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources: YouTube finalizing plans to bundle Music Key and ad-free videos for $10/month, could launch at end of October  —  YouTube Is Prepping Its Subscription Launch: Two Services, One Price  —  YouTube, which spent the first 10 years of its life as a free service, is getting ready to start selling tickets.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Amazon's Twitch to add video uploads, playlists in 2016 to more directly compete with YouTube  —  Amazon's Twitch to add video uploads in new battle with YouTube  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Twitch just strayed into direct competition with YouTube.  —  Emmett Shear, chief executive of Amazon's Twitch division …
Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
Israeli Soldiers To Be Disciplined After Assaulting Journalists  —  While covering a protest in the West Bank on Friday, a pair of Agence France-Presse journalists were beaten by Israeli troops, the Associated Press reports.  The “unprovoked attack” was caught on video.
Jo Ellison / Financial Times:
Since Vogue's online relaunch in August 2014, it has grown audience figures by 80 percent, with 4M uniques in the last two weeks  —  Vogue goes viral  —  What happens when the world's glossiest magazine goes digital?  Jo Ellison reports from inside Vogue.com
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Study of millennials' news reading habits shows majority don't pay for news and many use a subscription service paid for by someone else  —  Guess what: Millennials aren't all the same when it comes to news consumption  —  Millennials tend to get lumped into a big group when it comes …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Netflix plans to serve as its own studio for more shows, strengthening its control over distribution rights  —  Netflix to Make More Shows of Its Own  —  Streaming service wants to produce and own more programs  —  Shift would help company offer same lineup of shows worldwide
Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
Fusion Joins Sling TV Lineup  —  Part of $5/Month ‘World News Extra’ Add-On Pack  —  Fusion, a network focused on millennials, said it has launched on Sling TV, Dish Network's OTT-TV service for cord-cutters and cord-never.  —  Fusion is offered on Sling TV's “World News Extra” add-on pack …
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Deezer IPO filing shows firm spends 75%+ of revenue on rights holders, doesn't generate revenue from 40.2% of subscribers  —  Deezer's IPO Filing Shows Both Potential and Problems  —  The financial information in Deezer's filing for a public stock offering provides rare transparency …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with SF Chronicle editor-in-chief Audrey Cooper on experimentation, crowdfunding, incubators, and offline events to attract new readers  —  The San Francisco Chronicle looks to crowdfunding, incubators, and offline events to attract new readers  —  The Hearst-owned San Francisco Chronicle sits in a hub of tech and innovation.
Discussion: TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Steven Musil / CNET:
CNN partners with NextVR to offer VR livestream of Oct. 13 Democratic presidential debate  —  Democratic presidential debate to be live-streamed in virtual reality  —  CNN promises a “front row seat” to next month's debate through 3D immersive virtual reality.
 
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Joe Rivano Barros / Mission Local:
Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles

Mitchell Peters / Billboard:
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files

Sri Muppidi / The Information:
Source: OpenAI's share of revenue after the cost of running AI models for paying users has jumped to ~70% in October, up from ~52% at the end of 2024
 
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