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3:25 PM ET, November 13, 2015

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 Top News: 
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
FanDuel and DraftKings Are Suing New York's Attorney General  —  Things are getting ugly in New York for daily fantasy sports.  —  Industry leaders DraftKings and FanDuel have both separately filed suit against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.  The lawsuits come just two days …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook brings 360-degree videos to iOS, opens up format to brands with first ads from AT&T, Samsung, Corona, Walt Disney World, others  —  Facebook Unleashes VR-Style 360 Videos For Ads And iOS  —  Zuck says VR is the future and Facebook is wasting no time building it into the News Feed and starting to make money off it.
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Some publishers complain about underwhelming traffic from Apple News, no real-time data, delayed comScore integration, but Washington Post is pleased  —  Publishers are underwhelmed with Apple News app  —  When Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp expressed frustration with his company's performance …
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Beats Music confirms it will fade out on November 30th  —  Now that Apple Music is firmly in place (and even on Android) it's time for Beats Music to go.  An app update back in June greased the skids and an updated support page — as well as emails going out to Sonos users reiterating …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Pocket moves into Twitter territory with a public feed of your recommended reading  —  Pocket, the service for saving articles and videos to view later, is starting to look a bit more like a social network.  The company is now testing a way for you to share your favorite items to a public profile …
Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal:
NextVR, which broadcast a Democratic debate and the NBA opener in VR, gets $30M from Comcast, Time Warner Investments, and others in round led by Formation 8  —  Comcast, Time Warner Invest in Virtual Reality  —  Media companies' venture arms join $30.5 million funding round for NextVR
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Washington DC district court judge says streaming firm FilmOn doesn't have same rights as cable systems, contradicting Los Angeles judge  —  Judge: Internet broadcaster FilmOn isn't a cable system  —  Win in LA, lose in DC: High court may have to reconsider half-baked Aereo opinion.
Discussion: Techdirt and Hollywood Reporter
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
EE TV inks deal with TVPlayer to add 25 channels to its £5 per month streaming service  —  EE TV adds 25 new channels including Discovery and UKTV portfolio  —  Customers can pay £4.99 a month for programmes from National Geographic, British Eurosport, History, Sony and Cartoon Network
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Reuters TV to be available worldwide by end of November, coming to web next week, Android next year, and Chromecast, Xbox, others by mid 2016  —  Reuters TV plots expansion after dropping paywall  —  Two months after giving up on its pay model, Reuters TV is going for scale with its personalized video app.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Hulu in early talks to sell stake to Time Warner in deal valuing Hulu at $5B-$6B; Time Warner would invest cash, commit to license content  —  Hulu in Talks to Sell Stake to Time Warner  —  Deal could help streaming-video service compete with Netflix, Amazon
Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Digg raises $4 million and announces new CEO: former COO Gary Liu  —  Digg, the viral news site gunning for a comeback, today announced a $4 million raise led by Tokyo startup incubator Digital Garage.  On top of that, the site is getting a new CEO.  —  In a company statement …
Peter Sterne / Politico:
BuzzFeed launches its first one-to-one app, Quiz Chat, which lets users take quizzes with each other using Facebook Messenger  —  Buzzfeed launches iPhone app for quizzes  —  Buzzfeed released a mobile app called Quiz Chat today, which lets users take quizzes with one another over Facebook Messenger.
 
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Discussion: Bidness ETC and Media Wire Daily
Todd Shields / Bloomberg Business:
Trade group USTelecom, representing AT&T, Verizon, and others, asks FCC to put limits on Charter-TWC merger and Charter's largest shareholder, John Malone
Discussion: FierceCable and The Hill
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google Play Books improves comic book reading by adding vertical scrolling mode, curated pages for discovery, on Android in coming days, iOS soon
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Snapchat Signs Up Another Publisher: The Wall Street Journal
Ben Popper / The Verge:
YouTube Music standalone app launches on iOS and Android; YouTube Red subscribers get offline listening and no ads
 

 
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Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:
Kuo: Apple's M5 chip to use TSMC's advanced N3P node; M5 Pro, Max, and Ultra will use a new server-grade SoIC packaging featuring separate CPU and GPU designs

Financial Times:
Sources: Meta plans to add displays to its Ray-Ban glasses as soon as H2 2025 to show notifications or AI responses, and has accelerated Orion's development

Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing:
Google and OpenAI's AI product announcements over the past month have transformed the state of AI and show the breadth and pace of change
 
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