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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.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Publishers are underwhelmed with Apple News app — When Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp expressed frustration with his company's performance on Apple News last week, his complaints apparently were just the tip of the iceberg. Other publishing execs are unhappy about everything from the traffic they're getting …
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Fortune, Business Insider, Poynter, Digital Trends, campaignlive.co.uk, Wall Street Journal, SocialTimes and Talking New Media
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
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 …
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SiliconANGLE and The Digital Reader
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 …
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 …
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USA Today, Reuters, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, SPORTAL, New York Post and Consumerist
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
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Snapchat Signs Up Another Publisher: The Wall Street Journal — The Wall Street Journal is going after a new audience. So, apparently, is Snapchat. — The Journal will soon be joining Snapchat's group of Discover publishers, according to multiple sources, the first major business publication …
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Digiday, Adweek, The Huffington Post and Talking Biz News
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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Fast Company and The Huffington Post
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 — Google Improves Comic Book Reading Experience In Play Books For Android — Google today launched an upgrade to its Google Play Books store …