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November 12, 2014, 12:30 AM

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Washington Post:

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler signals split with Obama on net neutrality: “I am an independent agency” — The FCC weighs breaking with Obama over the future of the Internet — President Barack Obama shakes hands with then-nominee for Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler …

More: The Verge, The Hill and Vox

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David L. Cohen / Comcast Voices:

Comcast: Being for net neutrality and against Title II is completely consistent — Surprise! We Agree with the President's Principles on Net Neutrality: Reiterating Our Strong Support for the Open Internet — Yesterday, the President outlined his plan for a free and open Internet.

Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:

The Net Neutrality Debate Is About Companies & Politicians Own Posturing

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, Washington Post, The Verge and Washington Post. Tweets: @danrayburn. Thanks:@danrayburn

Daniel Ek / Spotify Blog:

Spotify has paid music industry $2B to date, $1B since last year; has 12.5M paying subscribers; top artists to exceed $6M/year in payments — $2 Billion and Counting — A blog post written by CEO Daniel Ek (@eldsjal) — Taylor Swift is absolutely right: music is art, art has real value, and artists deserve to be paid for it.

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Taylor Swift is right about music, wrong about Spotify, says CEO Ek

More: Guardian, New York Times, TechCrunch, App Advice, USA Today, WebProNews and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Apple to face lawsuit claiming it failed to disclose that iMessage would obstruct texts after customers switched to non-Apple devices — Apple must face U.S. lawsuit over vanishing iPhone text messages — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) was ordered to face a U.S. federal lawsuit claiming …

Geoffrey Smith / Fortune:

U.S., China reach deal to expand free trade in tech products — It's time to look forward to cheaper video game consoles, GPS devices, wireless headsets and a whole load of other high-tech goods-although not in time for this holiday season. — The U.S. and China reached …

More: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, Fox News, Politico, Newsweek, Reuters, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NPR, NBC News and The Hill

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Netflix now plays in 1080p on your iPhone 6 Plus — Did you buy that big, honking iPhone 6 Plus so that you could watch Netflix videos in glorious 1080p? If you did, today's your lucky day. Netflix has updated its iOS app to make full use of the higher-res screens on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus …

More: 9to5Mac, Netflix US & Canada Blog, AppleInsider, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, iClarified, App Advice and AppleInsider

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Quirky and GE announce Norm $80 smart thermostat, Outlink smart power outlet, Tripper door and window sensor, custom sensor kit micro-factory in SF, more — Quirky just announced seven new products, a micro-factory, custom sensor kits, and the death of the thermostat

More: AppleInsider, The Next Web, Gizmodo and Quirky Projects

Robert Cookson / Financial Times:

YouTube signs with indie labels through rights agency Merlin, setting the stage for a subscription streaming service — YouTube signs with indie labels for music streaming service — YouTube has struck a deal to license music from the thousands of independent record labels represented …

More: Engadget, VentureBeat, SlashGear, 9to5Google, The Verge and Wired.co.uk. See also Mediagazer

Owen Williams / The Next Web:

Microsoft posts critical patch for huge Windows vulnerability that affects all modern machines — Remember Heartbleed? You know, the exploit in SSL that was so bad it got its own brand? Microsoft may have an issue of similar scale on its hands with a critical patch issued via Windows Update today.

More: technet.microsoft.com, technet.microsoft.com, PC World, GeekWire, Gizmodo, Lifehacker and Mashable

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Yahoo to Acquire Video Ad-Tech Firm BrightRoll for $640 Million — Yahoo announced a deal to acquire BrightRoll, a programmatic video-advertising platform, for $640 million in cash. The deal will combine Yahoo's desktop and mobile video advertising inventory with BrightRoll's platform and publisher relationships.

More: Yahoo, VentureBeat, BrightRoll, AdExchanger, Marketing Land, ZDNet, SiliconBeat, TechCrunch, USA Today, Mercury News, Gigaom, Beet.TV, Bloomberg, Business Insider and Fortune

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