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1:00 PM ET, October 21, 2015

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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Disney to launch DisneyLife subscription streaming service in the UK in November, expand to France, Spain, Italy, and Germany next year  —  Disney to launch digital subscription streaming service in UK  —  Walt Disney will next month launch a first of its kind digital subscription service …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Yahoo and Google make search deal: Yahoo will call on Google to provide some results and ads for Yahoo search queries
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
ESPN confirms layoffs of 300 people; source says in distribution, advertising, technology, content, and others  —  ESPN to Lay Off About 300 Employees  —  Sports-media company looks to control costs in a challenging pay-TV landscape  —  ESPN said it would lay off nearly 300 employees at the company …
Wall Street Journal:
Comcast is in talks with TV networks and audience measurement firms to share data harnessed from set-top boxes and apps  —  Comcast Seeks to Harness Trove of TV Data  —  Cable giant is in talks with TV networks and measurement firms to license viewing data from set-top boxes, apps
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Downward stocks, retrenchment of IPO market, Trump lawsuit, and other issues mean Univision could delay its planned IPO  —  Univision beset by media world turbulence as it plans IPO  —  Univision Communications' owners were hoping that by mid-October, Wall Street would be cheering …
Leo Barraclough / Variety:
Max Hole to Step Down as Chairman, CEO of Universal Music Group International  —  LONDON — Max Hole is to step down from his role as chairman and chief executive of Universal Music Group International, effective immediately.  The company's regional heads, outside the U.S. …
Simon Zekaria / Wall Street Journal:
Shares in education publisher Pearson fell 16% after profit warning and Q3 sales fell 2% YoY  —  Pearson Shares Dive on Profit Warning  —  Education company warns of tough market conditions  —  LONDON—Shares in Pearson PLC dropped more than 16% on Wednesday after the education company warned …
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
2-year-old Bustle hits 45 million monthly uniques, flirts with profitability, and launches a new website for millennial moms, Romper  —  Bustle, a new media company for millennial women, is launching a second website in November.  —  The website, which will be called Romper …
Discussion: @hsaltz
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Vice holds two-hour blackout to support journalist imprisoned in Turkey  —  Mohammed Rasool remains in jail despite worldwide concern and the release of colleagues Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury  —  Vice is blacking out all its online channels for two hours on Wednesday …
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Creators of macabre Night Vale podcast get a multi-book deal, illustrating increased interest in podcast-to-book projects  —  From the Ear to the Page, the ‘Night Vale’ Podcast Becomes a Novel  —  One afternoon late this summer, Cecil Baldwin was hunched over a microphone in his living room in Brooklyn …
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Sony Pictures will pay up to $8 million to settle hack lawsuit with employees  —  Nearly a year after its devastating hack, Sony Pictures' settlement with former employees has been made public, offering as much as $8 million to resolve the ongoing lawsuit.  —  According to documents filed today …
Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat:
Microsoft partners with DJ Skee's Dash Radio for an all-Halo music station  —  EXCLUSIVE:  —  Microsoft's got a new Halo coming out soon, and it is celebrating that impending release by spinning some of the shooter franchise's classic tunes.  —  Halo is getting its own music station on the Dash Radio music app.
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From Techmeme:

Alphabet:
Alphabet Q1: revenue up 15% YoY to $80.5B, net income up 57% to $23.7B, Google Cloud revenue up 28% to $9.6B, and headcount down 5%; GOOG jumps 11%+ after hours

Microsoft:
Microsoft Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $61.9B, net income up 20% to $21.9B, Office Commercial revenue up 13%, LinkedIn revenue up 10%; MSFT jumps 4%+ after hours

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