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4:40 AM ET, November 15, 2014

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Mary Emily O'Hara / VICE:
The ACLU Is Fighting to Keep Revenge Porn Safe and Legal for Pervs  —  A federal bill that would criminalize revenge porn is currently on the table, with Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) likely set to introduce it by the year's end.  But in order to make it through the crucible of free-speech …
TechCrunch:
Uber Integrates With Spotify To Let Passengers Become Backseat DJs  —  Uber is adding a new feature to its mobile app that could allow passengers to play DJ while they take a ride with one of its drivers.  Thanks to an integration with Spotify, Uber will soon make music a central part of its ride-hailing service.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
The Poynter Institute lost $3.5 million in 2013, makes progress toward new revenue sources  —  The Poynter Institute filed its financial statement for 2013 with the Internal Revenue Service Friday.  It shows a loss of about $3.5 million for that year.  —  Poynter has taken a number of steps …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and Poynter
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama seems to oppose Risen jailing  —  YANGON, Myanmar—President Barack Obama Friday reinforced the perception that a New York Times journalist won't be thrown in jail for refusing to identify his confidential sources for a book that allegedly contained highly classified information provided by a Central Intelligence Agency officer.
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Layoffs hit CNBC.com, with about eight people losing jobs  —  Layoffs at CNBC.com  —  Layoffs have hit CNBC.com, TVNewser has learned.  Around eight staffers have been cut.  —  At the same time, CNBC.com is adding to the roster.  Eric Chemi is joining as senior editor-at-large of Data Journalism.
Bill Mickey / Folio:
WhoSay Boosts Distribution Through Huffington Post, Flipboard and Tango Partnerships  —  Celebs can post content directly to media platforms.  —  Celebrity social posts, whether ill-advised or perfectly orchestrated, are engagement gold.  And WhoSay, a distributor of celebrity-provided social content …
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter:
DreamWorks Animation and Hasbro End Merger Talks (Exclusive)  —  Shares of the toymaker fell when Wall Street learned of a potential deal  —  Hasbro has called off merger negotiations with DreamWorks Animation, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.  —  The deal chatter, which became public on Wednesday …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
SiriusXM Slammed Yet Again As New York Judge Rules in Turtles Lawsuit  —  The use of pre-1972 sound recordings keeps getting more and more hot  —  For the third time in as many months, SiriusXM has been rocked with a court ruling over the issue of pre-1972 sound recordings.
Discussion: Reuters and @lamyj
David Lieberman / Deadline:
CBS Warns That Its Stations Might Go Dark On Dish Network  —  Here we go: CBS introduced a web site today warning Dish Network customers that when its carriage deal expires this month the No. 2 satellite company “may drop” the network-owned stations in 14 cities including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Everyone Fails at Local News Online.  Former TechCrunch Boss Eric Eldon Thinks He'll Get It Right.  —  There are lots of successful tech news sites.  Eric Eldon used to run a really big one.  —  There are barely any successful local news sites.  But that's what Eldon is trying do now.
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Nina Mandell / USA Today:
A New York Times story about Florida State was marked as spam on Twitter  —  The New York Times released a story on Friday about two incidents where Florida State football players were given minor traffic citations instead of being charged with hit-and-runs after abandoning their cars following late-night crashes.
Chris Morran / Consumerist:
CBS, Disney, others get court to temporarily block FCC disclosure of how much cable giants pay for programming in merger review  —  Broadcasters Get Court To Stop Consumers From Seeing How Much Cable Companies Pay For Content  —  The FCC is currently mulling over whether to give its stamp …
Discussion: Deadline, @byersalex and Bloomberg
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Disney Movies Anywhere is coming to Walmart's Vudu  —  Disney Movies Anywhere, the cloud locker service that recently expanded from iOS to Android, is coming to another major retailer: Disney CTO Jamie Voris announced at a company event in Los Angeles Friday that the service will launch …
Discussion: Variety and Reuters
 
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Onion CEO: Sure, We're for Sale. But Mostly We Just Want Money, So Make an Offer. (Memo)
Reuters:
John Malone's Liberty Global in talks to buy 50% of Germany's video-on-demand service Maxdome
Discussion: Variety
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
3 reasons why journalists are wary of gamification: an interview with Al Jazeera's Juliana Ruhfus
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Streaming Video Alliance Trade Group Launches, Without Netflix or YouTube
Discussion: MarketWatch and The Next Web
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Trinity Mirror to close seven regional newspapers with loss of 50 jobs
Irish Independent:
Six Sun journalists cleared of conspiracy charges in corruption case
Discussion: Guardian, Telegraph and Press Gazette
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Discussion: @jbenton
 

 
From Techmeme:

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

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

 
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