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9:30 AM ET, January 15, 2016

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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Wikipedia launching $100m fund to secure long-term future as site turns 15  —  Online encyclopedia reaches its 15th birthday preparing for challenges ahead around funding, mobile access and the developing world  —  As Wikipedia turns 15, its operator The Wikimedia Foundation is hoping …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix says it will block proxy and VPN access, used to bypass country restrictions, in the coming weeks citing content-licensing restrictions  —  Netflix Vows to Shut Down Proxy Users Who Bypass Country Restrictions  —  Netflix, which now offers streaming service in some 190 nations …
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
Al Jazeera America failed by offering viewers coverage based on survey findings, not what audiences are proven to watch  —  Why Al Jazeera America Was Destined to Fail  —  Al Jazeera America never had a chance.  Having struggled in vain to attract an audience since it launched in 2013 …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Huffington Post Management Voluntarily Recognizes Employee Union  —  HuffPost is the largest digital news outlet to organize.  —  NEW YORK — The Huffington Post's management has voluntarily recognized its employees' union, making the digital media outlet the largest ever to organize.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Axel Springer's Bild is testing news delivery via Facebook Messenger  —  German tabloid Bild is experimenting with delivering news to its readers via Facebook Messenger.  The first experiment is limited to “news, background information, and rumors regarding the transfer window of the German soccer league.”
Discussion: @ylichterman
Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times:
ESPN.com rolls out e-sports section, says its daily coverage will have the same rigor it has for other sports  —  ESPN.com to cover e-sports with same ‘rigor’ as it does the big leagues  —  An ESPN The Magazine last year focused on e-sports.  Emboldened by the response, ESPN.com plans to aggressively cover video game competitions.
Phil Serafino / Bloomberg Business:
Vivendi Sells Its Activision Stake, Netting $1.1 Billion  —  Gamemaker's stock price almost doubled in the past year  —  Chairman Bollore has recently focused on Europe investments  —  Vivendi SA sold its remaining 5.7 percent stake in Activision Blizzard Inc., resulting in net proceeds of $1.1 billion …
Discussion: MarketWatch and Financial Times
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Weird news website Quirker is first title to close following Trinity Mirror purchase of Local World  —  Trinity Mirror has closed down its first title following its merger with Local World - weird local news website Quirker.  —  According to Trinity Mirror the site employed four journalists …
Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
Daily Mail Australia ends Nine partnership amid frustrations over lack of local ad sales  —  Nine Entertainment Co has sold off its stake in the Daily Mail Australia to British-based parent company The Daily Mail General Trust, just over two years after the joint-venture was created.
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Sources: Rupert Murdoch reasserts control over Fox News, Roger Ailes threatened to quit over promotion of Murdoch's sons, network lacks Trump coverage strategy  —  With Roger Ailes Absent, Fox News Is Drifting — There Isn't Even a ‘Trump Strategy’  —  For the past two decades …
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Hunaxi to buy 8% stake for $10M in London-based Mubi, will invest $40M for 70% for a joint venture for a streaming service in China  —  Mubi to Launch Curated VoD Service in China  —  China's Huanxi Media will partner with Mubi to launch Mubi China, a local version of its video on demand service.
 
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Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog:
Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers
 
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