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Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:

BitTorrent says its streaming service BitTorrent Now isn't shutting down, only one co-CEO, Robert Delamar, left the company — Last week, Variety published a report detailing some internal turmoil at BitTorrent: the company's CEOs had both reportedly been fired, the recently-launched BitTorrent …

Matt Bai / Yahoo:

Competitive pressure and the notion that everything belongs in the public domain are leading some news sites to recklessly publish stolen private data — In 1972, a group of burglars working for the Republican Party broke into Democratic headquarters in the dead of night …

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Aishwarya Venugopal / Reuters:

Viacom special committee hires Morgan Stanley, Allen & Company, and LionTree LLC to advise on potential CBS merger — Viacom Inc (VIAB.O) said on Friday that it had hired financial advisers to explore a merger with CBS Corp (CBS.N) following a proposal by Sumner Redstone's National Amusements Inc …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

BuzzFeed to stream a live election night broadcast on Twitter, hopes to demystify how winners are called in key races — NEW YORK As politics obsessives turn to Twitter on Election Night, BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith wants his site's coverage to be right there with them.

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Elsa Keslassy / Variety:

French legislature gives preliminary approval to 2% tax on ad revenue from video platforms like YouTube, in order to help finance local content — PARIS - The lower house of the French legislature passed a bill to levy a 2% tax on the advertising revenues of online video platforms, including YouTube and Dailymotion.

PR Newswire:

Twitter's average minute audience for 6th week of Thursday Night Football was 300K viewers — Twitter today announced the live streaming results of their week six matchup of THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, featuring the San Diego Chargers beating the Denver Broncos 21-13.

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