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6:40 PM ET, February 8, 2016

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources: users streamed 315M minutes of the Super Bowl from CBS and NFL, an average of 1.4M people per minute, up from from 213 minutes, 800K/min in 2015  —  More People Streamed the Super Bowl Than Ever Before.  Here Are the Numbers:  —  Late last night, CBS announced it had streamed the Super Bowl to a …
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Super Bowl ads generated 476M views online to date, 62.4M on game day alone  —  Super Bowl Ads Draw 476M Views Online  —  62.4M views came on game day, according to iSpot.TV … In addition to being seen during the big game, Super Bowl commercials generated 476 million on line views, according to iSpot.TV.
Lucy Kellaway / Financial Times:
FT columnist Lucy Kellaway responds to Hewlett Packard marketing chief Henry Gomez after he made veiled threat in response to critical opinion piece  —  An old-school reply to an advertiser's retro threat  —  Meg Whitman's lieutenant was ‘disappointed’ with what I'd written.  Here is my considered response
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John Harrington / PRWeek:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise releases letter sent to FT journalist to dispute ‘ad threat’ claim  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise has strongly disputed claims by an FT columnist that the software firm's comms chief Henry Gomez wrote a ‘threatening’ and ‘aggressive’ letter to her with suggestions …
Brent Lang / Variety:
21st Century Fox reports Q2 net income of $672M on revenue of $7.38B, cable TV revenue strong, film weak, stock down about 5% after hours  —  21st Century Fox Earnings: Cable Gains Can't Lift Weaker Film Results  —  Lower television advertising results, lackluster home entertainment results …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
En Español: The New York Times launches a Spanish-language news site aiming south of the border  —  The Iowa caucuses are confusing.  Every four years, Americans receive a crash course in the quirky midwestern custom that kicks off the presidential nominating cycle …
Re/code:
Sources: Twitter could name two new board members this week  —  Twitter Aims to Name Two New Board Members This Week.  (We'll See!)  —  According to multiple sources, Twitter is aiming to name two new board members to replace a pair of outgoing ones at the same time it announces its fourth-quarter earnings tomorrow.
Discussion: Fortune, @fmanjoo and The Next Web
Bloomberg Business:
NFL in talks about selling streaming rights to “Thursday Night Football”  —  Yahoo, Verizon, AT&T Want NFL Thursday Streaming Rights  —  National Football League has targeted tech, telecom partners  —  Traditional broadcasters uninterested in paying extra
Discussion: Re/code and @lucas_shaw
Steve Dent / Engadget:
The Pirate Bay, other torrent sites add support for Torrents Time plugin allowing you to stream movies and TV shows from your browser  —  The Pirate Bay begins testing browser streaming  —  The Pirate Bay torrent site has blown around so much, you might need even be sure where it is right now (thepiratebay.se, we think).
Jack Shafer / Politico:
News outlets should stop treating Chelsea Clinton as an off-limits subject of scrutiny  —  Time for Chelsea Clinton's Easy Ride to End  —  Why is the press treating a wealthy, 35-year-old political operative like she's still a White House kid?  —  When precisely did Chelsea Clinton complete …
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC3 boss on going online only: 'We are reinventing the BBC's offer to youth'  —  Controller Damian Kavanagh on taking his station online, nurturing talent, and how he's winning over critics  —  n 16 February BBC3 will go online only, causing, according to critics such as producers Jimmy Mulville …
 
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Al Jazeera America to stop updating website Feb. 26, TV operations continue until April 12
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Vice UK staff move to unionise to ‘share in the success’ of media company
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
IBT Media Names Alvaro Palacios COO
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The case of five missing booksellers in Hong Kong puts spotlight on publishing niche that creates illicit books critical of Beijing
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Boston public radio station WBUR overhauling its site to highlight audio, integrate with NPR, and work better for mobile users
Tom Grubisich / Street Fight:
Interview with President of Hearst Newspapers Digital Rob Barrett about metro paper challenges, data journalism, social platforms and news contributors, more
 

 
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds

Jibin Joseph / PCMag:
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time

Financial Times:
Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its valuation a few months ago; SpaceX prepares a tender offer that would value the company at $250B+
 
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