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1:35 PM ET, November 14, 2015

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 Top News: 
Jordan Valinsky / Digiday:
ComScore: Washington Post tops New York Times online for first time ever  —  More people visited the Washington Post's website than The New York Times' in October, marking a significant milestone in the battle for old guard supremacy in online media.  —  Last month, the Washington Post raked …
Discussion: FishbowlNY, Washington Post and @raju
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
FanDuel and DraftKings ask New York Supreme Court to throw out attorney general's order to stop taking bets  —  FanDuel and DraftKings Are Suing New York's Attorney General  —  Things are getting ugly in New York for daily fantasy sports.  —  Industry leaders DraftKings and FanDuel …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
TV Programmers Push Netflix for Promotions, Branding  —  ABC's ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ negotiated for network logo branding  —  When a Netflix subscriber selects a TV show to watch on the streaming service, the action usually starts right away.  —  But that's not the case …
Discussion: Slate and The Verge
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Poynter cuts budget deficit by 35%, reports $2.26 million operating loss for 2014  —  The Poynter Institute reported today that it grew income and reduced expenses in 2014, cutting its operating loss by 35 percent from the previous year, but still ended with a $2.26 million operating deficit.
Om Malik:
Facebook Notify: easy to set up and use, good for generic mass news consumption, but bland for news junkies  —  A Quick Notify App Review!  —  Somewhere deep in the bowels of Googleplex, someone is wondering, Why the hell did we shut down Google Reader?  Because it seems these days everyone wants …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook brings 360-degree videos to iOS, opens up format to brands with first ads from AT&T, Samsung, Corona, Walt Disney World, others  —  Facebook Unleashes VR-Style 360 Videos For Ads And iOS  —  Zuck says VR is the future and Facebook is wasting no time building it into the News Feed and starting to make money off it.
Marty Swant / Adweek:
Google Unveils New Programmatic Native and Full-Screen Mobile Video Ads  —  Google is now offering programmatic ads for native content and mobile video publishers, working with its DoubleClick clients like eBay.  —  Such publishers can make native ad units available for programmatic demand …
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Tow Center conference debates the unsettled relationship between publishers and platforms  —  What Should Media Companies Do in a World Controlled by Giant Platforms?  —  Every week or two, it seems, another giant web platform introduces something that alters the landscape for media companies.
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Tidal's chief investment officer, Vania Schlogel, left firm months ago, becoming at least the third departure of a top executive since being acquired by Jay-Z  —  Jay Z's Tidal Loses Another Executive  —  Since Jay Z bought Tidal early this year, the music streaming service has been plagued …
Discussion: The Verge
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Pocket moves into Twitter territory with a public feed of your recommended reading  —  Pocket, the service for saving articles and videos to view later, is starting to look a bit more like a social network.  The company is now testing a way for you to share your favorite items to a public profile …
Discussion: SiliconANGLE
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Washington DC district court judge says streaming firm FilmOn doesn't have same rights as cable systems, contradicting Los Angeles judge  —  Judge: Internet broadcaster FilmOn isn't a cable system  —  Win in LA, lose in DC: High court may have to reconsider half-baked Aereo opinion.
Discussion: Techdirt and Hollywood Reporter
 
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Reuters TV to be available worldwide by end of November, coming to web next week, Android next year, and Chromecast, Xbox, others by mid 2016
Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal:
NextVR, which broadcast a Democratic debate and the NBA opener in VR, gets $30M from Comcast, Time Warner Investments, and others in round led by Formation 8
Peter Sterne / Politico:
BuzzFeed launches its first one-to-one app, Quiz Chat, which lets users take quizzes with each other using Facebook Messenger
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David Sharman / HoldTheFrontPage:
Ashley Highfield, CEO of Johnston Press, appointed chairman of industry body News Media Association
George Slefo / Ad Age:
Ad tech firm Sizmek buys Pointroll for $20M from a division of Tegna, once part of Gannett
Discussion: VatorNews
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Hearst to Launch Snapchat Channel Called ‘Sweet’
Discussion: Bidness ETC
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Hulu in early talks to sell stake to Time Warner in deal valuing Hulu at $5B-$6B; Time Warner would invest cash, commit to license content
 

 
From Techmeme:

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

James Hunt / The Block:
Bitcoin's fourth halving is now complete, lowering miners' block subsidy rewards from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC; the third halving was on May 2020

 
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