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Jordan Valinsky / Digiday:
ComScore: Washington Post tops New York Times online for first time ever — More people visited the Washington Post's website than The New York Times' in October, marking a significant milestone in the battle for old guard supremacy in online media. — Last month, the Washington Post raked …
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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BuzzFeed, The Next Web, Facebook Media, The Verge, PR Newswire, Telegraph, PC Magazine, Digiday, RAPPLER, BT.com, Mashable, Independent.ie, Tech Times, Wareable, Digital Trends, Tech Times, Ad Age, Marketing Land, Consumerist, Variety, VentureBeat, Engadget, SocialTimes, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Adweek, Facebook and The Drum
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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BostonGlobe.com, USA Today, Bloomberg Business, ESPN, Deadline, CNNMoney, The Daily Beast, The Next Web, Boston Globe, New York Daily News, ABC News, Washington Post, ESPN, Boston Herald, Orange County Register, Christian Science Monitor, New York Daily News, MarketWatch, Bloomberg Business, SI.com, Fox Business, Variety, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Reuters, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Benzinga, Business Insider, New York Post, Re/code, Deadspin, Consumerist, Awful Announcing, SPORTAL, The Week, Bleacher Report, Deadspin and New York Post
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 …
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Fortune, @mikeisaac, MacDailyNews, Business Insider, Digital Trends, campaignlive.co.uk, Poynter, Wall Street Journal, Talking New Media and SocialTimes
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 …
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Forbes, The Wrap, Computerworld, Beats Music Support, Variety, Fast Company, bizjournals, Business Insider, City A.M., TechRadar.com, CNET, Daily Mail, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, MacRumors, VatorNews, The Next Web, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, VentureBeat and App Advice
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
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.
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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.
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 …
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TechCrunch, @annadubenko, @nattgarun and @heyveronica
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