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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
Apple antitrust lawsuit could be halted: Apple claims plaintiffs did not buy affected iPods  —  Apple iPod Suit May Lack One Thing: A Plaintiff  —  A class-action lawsuit is usually meant to represent a group of people believed to have been harmed in some way.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
AT&T still throttles “unlimited data”—even when network not congested  —  A while back, we reported that AT&T had stopped throttling unlimited data users except in cases when the network is congested.  —  We were wrong.  AT&T did change its policy to stop the automatic throttling …
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Judge rejects Target's bid to throw out banks' lawsuits; ruling makes clear that banks have right to go after retailers that were negligent in security  —  Banks' Lawsuits Against Target for Losses Related to Hacking Can Continue  —  A federal judge on Tuesday handed an early victory …
Klint Finley / Wired:
Joyent-led Node.js forked by top contributors into Io.js to shift project toward an open governance model  —  Future of Popular Coding Tool In Doubt After Public Split  —  Node.js, a popular and influential tool for building and running modern internet services, has split in two.
Martin Beck / Marketing Land:
Chartbeat changes how it tracks mobile apps traffic to better measure dark social referrals  —  Chartbeat Shines A Light On Dark Social, Finds Missing Mobile Referrers  —  Sites with high Facebook referral traffic are seeing a bump of 40% in traffic attributed to Facebook mobile after the real …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Microsoft adds video calling between Lync and Skype for Windows, coming to Android and iOS next  —  Microsoft today announced new cross-app integration between Lync and Skype: video calling.  The new feature works between Lync 2013 and the latest Skype for Windows desktop client, which you can download now from Skype.com.
Jim Duffy / Network World:
Cisco files patent and copyright infringement suits against Arista Networks, a rival founded by former Cisco executives  —  Cisco slaps Arista Networks with patent, copyright infringement suits  —  Cisco today filed two lawsuits against data center switch competitor Arista Networks for allegedly violating its intellectual property.
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Deep-learning startup MetaMind launches with $8M from Benioff & Khosla Ventures  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. — Richard Socher never set out to place himself on the bleeding edge of artificial intelligence.  He merely wanted to blend language and math — two subjects he'd always liked.
Kashmir Hill / Fusion:
Ex-employees say staff warned Sony of lax security for years and company failed to act on risk assessment advice  —  Sony Pictures hack was a long time coming, say former employees  —  We still don't know exactly how Sony Pictures got hacked or who did the hacking.
Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:
Sony Hack Reportedly Includes 47,000 Social Security Numbers, Celebrity Data

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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Sources: Disney is selling its 50% stake in A+E Global Media to co-owner Hearst Communications in a deal believed to be all in cash and worth north of $1B

Minho Kim / New York Times:
Sarah B. Rogers, Trump's nominee to lead USAGM, says she would reinstate some agency employees; if confirmed, she would still serve in the State Department

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Swiss film producer Simon Afram sues Netflix for $105M, saying Netflix lost an unencrypted copy of a film starring Nicolas Cage that he spent $45M to produce

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