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12:45 PM ET, September 28, 2016

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Nielsen: presidential debate drew a total of 84M viewers across 13 traditional TV channels; streaming alternatives not included in count  —  Monday night was the most-watched debate in American history.  —  More than 80 million people tuned in to see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off …
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
YouTube says it had nearly 2M concurrent viewers for Monday night's presidential debate, making it one of the most watched live streams of all time  —  Record turnout for a live streaming political event  —  YouTube says it had nearly 2 million live concurrent viewers during Monday night's …
Discussion: Mediaite, Washington Post and Forbes
NPR:
NPR annotates full transcript of first presidential debate with fact-checks, analysis, and context
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Twitter opens the creation and curation of Moments to all users via the web app, coming soon to mobile  —  Twitter Moments — those collections of tweets about certain subjects, often the ones that are in the news and are being discussed by lots of users — now make a lot more sense.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos joins Spotify's board  —  Spotify wants to make a splash in video — kind of like Netflix.  —  Spotify wants to branch out from music to video.  This could help: The streaming music company is adding Ted Sarandos, Netflix's content boss, to its board of directors.
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Major music labels, RIAA, others sue stream-ripping site YouTube-MP3 for copyright infringement  —  Two weeks ago, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry published research which claimed that half of 16 to 24-year-olds use stream-ripping tools to copy music from sites like YouTube.
Reuters:
Sources: National Amusements could call for CBS, Viacom to explore merger this week, asking them to form independent board committees to consider options  —  Sumner Redstone's National Amusements Inc (NAI), the controlling shareholder of CBS Corp (CBS.N) and Viacom Inc (VIAB.O) …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Facebook disabled accounts of several prominent Palestinian journalists last week, then restored them and admitted error, a continuing pattern  —  The social platform's temporary suspension of several Palestinian journalist accounts is its latest “error,” with no policy change in sight.
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
News Corp. invests $10M in ad tech company AppNexus, as part of $31M round, with involvement from Yahoo Japan and existing investors  —  Ad tech company AppNexus has raised a $31 million funding round, which includes a $10 million investment from News Corp, involvement from Yahoo Japan, and participation from its existing investors.
Alex T. Williams / Columbia Journalism Review:
Number of journalists at digital-only publishers has plateaued in the past three years, suggesting economic models for digital native publishers are in flux  —  It probably comes as no surprise that jobs for journalists at newspapers continue to disappear.  But in a disturbing development …
Discussion: @ajlisteningpost and Forbes
 
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify debuts Daily Mix playlists, which are based on your favorite tunes and play artists familiar to you, unlike Discover Weekly, coming to iOS, Android
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Google debuts data-friendly YouTube Go app for Android in India, with offline viewing, Bluetooth sharing, better video previews and resolution settings, more
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Connor Jones / The Register:
UnitedHealth says the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare cost the company $872M in Q1; another ransomware group appears to be extorting the company

Financial Times:
Microsoft invests $1.5B in Abu Dhabi-based AI startup G42 for a minority stake, after G42 severed ties with Chinese suppliers; Brad Smith will join G42's board

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