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9:50 AM ET, January 20, 2016

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Verizon Wireless to begin selling data cap exemptions to content providers January 25 with beta trial of its new FreeBee Data 360 service  —  Verizon Wireless selling data cap exemptions to content providers  —  Video, music, app downloads, and ads can be exempted from caps for a fee.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
The Guardian appoints AOL UK's Hamish Nicklin as chief revenue officer  —  Former Google executive to be responsible for Guardian News & Media's advertising revenues, its jobs operation and its branded content division  —  The Guardian has appointed Hamish Nicklin, the managing director …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Starbucks Now Lets You Save The Songs You Heard In-Store To Spotify  —  Starbucks and streaming service Spotify are expanding their relationship today with the launch of a new digital music experience for Starbucks customers which will allow them to identify songs being played in stores …
Andrew Giambrone / City Desk:
Washington Post apologizes in detailed editor's note for reporter copying parts of articles from Government Executive website  —  Post Reporter Lifts Passages from Government Executive Articles  —  Washington Post reporter Lisa Rein, who covers federal government issues …
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Netflix Q4: revenue of $1.82B, $43M in profit, 5.59M net new subscribers with 4.04M internationally; stock up 7% after hours  —  Netflix whizzes past 75 million subscribers thanks to record international growth  —  Netflix share price is up more than 121 percent in the last year.
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Gerardo Reyes / Washington Post:
Director of Univision's investigative unit Gerardo Reyes declined to interview El Chapo after he asked for editorial control  —  Why I turned down an interview with ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán  —  Univision said no, but Sean Penn said yes.  —  In September 2013, a confidential source acting …
Brendan James / International Business Times:
Gawker seeks outside funding to fortify finances ahead of Hulk Hogan trial, plans Thursday meeting to ask shareholders to OK new class of shares  —  Gawker Media Is On The Hunt For Outside Investor Cash  —  Gawker Media is seeking funding from outside investors and calling an …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Nielsen to add Facebook discussions to its Twitter TV Ratings, to be renamed “Social Content Rankings”, eventually will include Instagram  —  Nielsen Wants to Watch You Talk to Your Facebook Friends About What You Watch on TV  —  It is a little hard to remember now …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
After Cancelling Its IPO, Deezer Raises Another $109M From Access And Orange  —  Deezer, the Paris-based music and other audio streaming service with 6.3 million users that planned but ultimately cancelled an IPO last year, has now tapped existing investors for more funding …
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Agence France Presse to open bureau in North Korea, will join Associated Press, Japan's Kyodo, and China's Xinhua in having a permanent base in Pyongyang  —  Agence France Presse to open bureau in North Korea  —  AFP to join Associated Press, Japan's Kyodo and China's Xinhua in Pyongyang
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
As Facebook changes its algorithms, publishers like Elite Daily who count on it for traffic try to follow by shifting resources to video  —  Viral publishers, seeing fewer Facebook clicks, shift focus to video  —  The era of the viral Facebook post that generates a flood of traffic is winding down for Facebook-dependent publishers.
 
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Robert Frank / New York Times:
Forbes family claims $65M loan to new Forbes Media owners is in default due to one late $46K interest payment, demands full repayment, $35M breach-of-sale fee
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
BuzzFeed launches in Japan, with some help from Yahoo Japan
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Mediaite founder Dan Abrams launches legal news site LawNewz, to livestream major trials and have running commentary of legal cases
Discussion: Mediaite
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Game developer Ubisoft partners with Amazon Prime, YouTube creators to make short film based on video game The Division
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Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
Leila Alaoui, Photographer Wounded in Burkina Faso Siege, Dies at 33
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The Times and Sunday Times launch weekly edition for international subscribers, Times of London Weekly, in 46 countries
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth

Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

 
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