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2:30 PM ET, January 6, 2016

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Natt Garun / The Next WebThe Next Web:
Netflix expands to 130 new countries including India, Vietnam, Turkey, South Korea, Poland, and Russia, but not China; stock up over 5%  —  Netflix officially arrives in India, Russia, Vietnam and more - totaling 130 new countries  —  At the opening keynote at CES, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings …
Mark Arsenault / Boston Globe:
As problems persist with new distributor, Boston Globe rehires old distributor to handle some newspaper routes  —  Globe splits deliveries between two companies  —  After more than a week of confounding problems getting newspapers to subscribers, The Boston Globe has turned …
Amy X. Wang / Quartz:
Report: total global media spending to rise 5% each year for the next five years, print newspapers and magazines to decline as digital takes over  —  Books and newspapers will do just fine in 2016.  Magazines?  Not so much  —  The reign of the consumer magazine—glossy, beautiful …
Martyn Williams / Computerworld:
Sony to launch 4K video streaming service Ultra in US this year, will bring Sony content to Bravia TVs  —  Sony to launch 4K streaming service in US this year  —  Sony will launch a 4K video streaming service in the U.S. this year, seeking to give consumers access to more content to watch on 4K TVs.
Will Oremus / Slate:
Twitter's “Beyond 140” feature is a plan to host content inside its walled garden, instead of linking to blogs and other websites  —  Twitter Isn't Raising the Character Limit.  It's Becoming a Walled Garden.  —  Tweeters are freaking out—again—about another report that Twitter …
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Sources: Twitter targets Q1 launch and 10K-character limit for “Beyond 140” feature, testing timeline that shows 140 characters with option to expand for more
Kirsty Styles / The Next Web:
Twitter misses deadline to pay $50K fine for hosting what Turkey's telecoms regulator defined as terrorist propaganda  —  Twitter misses deadline to pay Turkey's $50,000 terrorist propaganda fine  —  Twitter has missed the deadline for paying a $50,000 fine imposed on it by the Turkish government …
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
US consumers bought 241.4M albums last year, down 6% from 2014, streamed 317.2B songs, nearly double that of 2014  —  Adele Album Resists the Streaming Trend in Music Sales  —  For the last few years, the prevailing theme in the recorded music business has been that CD and download sales …
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Interview with Steve Patrizi, Imgur's vice president of marketing and revenue, on how the image-sharing site plans to make money with Promoted Posts  —  How Imgur is taking on Facebook and Twitter as ‘geek culture’ goes mainstream  —  Imgur, which began in 2009 as a university side project …
Anjan Sundaram / The Observer:
How President Paul Kagame crushed Rwanda's free press  —  In this extract, Sundaram describes the presidential election in 2010, a critical moment in the destruction of a free press  —  he election was a masterpiece of authority.  The vote passed in an ambience of total serenity.
Discussion: @kenroth
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Martha Stewart Employees Laid Off as Part of Editorial Transition  —  A “small fraction of employees” from Martha Stewart Living and Martha Stewart Weddings were laid off on Tuesday, stemming from the recently signed licensing agreement between Sequential Brands Group and Meredith, a Sequential spokesperson confirmed to Ad Age.
Discussion: CNNMoney and @jeremymbarr
Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
Fullscreen, GroupM Ink Deal to Form Influencer Marketing Program  —  For more brands to put money toward video deals with digital celebrities, or influencers, it needs to become easier for the brands to pick out which influencers to work with.  “It's much harder for brand owners to keep …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Dish's Sling TV gets updated UI, pause and rewind for some shows, upgraded sports section with ESPN 3  —  Sling TV, Dish's Internet TV Service For Cord Cutters, Unveils A More Personalized Interface  —  Sling TV, Dish Network's streaming TV service aimed at cord cutters …
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Jon Healey / Los Angeles Times:
Dish releases Hopper 3 set-top box, can record 16 HD shows simultaneously, introduces HopperGo, a portable, $99 battery-powered storage device
 
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Metro Corp., publisher of Philadelphia Magazine and Boston Magazine, cuts seven full-time positions in restructuring
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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