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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: YouTube seeks streaming rights for TV shows and movies to support its new subscription service Red  —  YouTube Seeks Streaming Rights to TV Shows, Movies  —  Efforts come as YouTube looks to bolster $9.99-a-month subscription service called Red  —  YouTube is seeking streaming rights …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg Business:
Steve Ballmer: Microsoft should disclose profit margins and sales for its cloud and hardware businesses, not just the run rate  —  Microsoft Should Disclose Cloud Revenue, Margins, Ballmer Says  —  Former CEO says the company should provide hardware metrics  —  Ballmer comments at Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting
Amir Efrati / The Information:
Sources: Andy Rubin has tried to recruit personnel to help build a new Android phone company  —  For Andy Rubin, Android Comes Calling Again  —  Andy Rubin, the father of Google's Android smartphone operating system, has recently talked about getting back in the Android phone business after more than two years away from it.
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Uber unveils SPOT, a LED color-coded lighting system that helps passengers and drivers find one another easily, available in Seattle only for now  —  Uber color coding experiment promises smoother pickups  —  If you've ever used a ridesharing service, you've probably had that moment where you had to guess which car was your ride.
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Google finishes porting Songza's features to Google Play Music and will shut down Songza on January 31  —  Google will shut down Songza on January 31, 2016  —  Google today announced the Songza website and app will be killed off on January 31, 2016.  The Google Play Music team …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: potential bidders for a Yahoo sale include Verizon, IAC/InterActive, with News Corp and Time Inc. likely interested in pieces of Yahoo  —  Bidders Emerge for Yahoo's Internet Business  —  Potential buyers range from media and telecom giants to private-equity firms
Alastair Sharp / Reuters:
Canada's national police force to create a cyber crime team with 40 new positions by 2020 at a cost of $22.5M  —  Canada's national police force launching cyber crime unit  —  Canada's national police force said on Wednesday it would create a team of cyber crime investigators …
More: Engadget
Brandon Chester / AnandTech:
Samsung announces new A5, A7 smartphones with fingerprint readers and OIS cameras, and the cheaper A3; available in China first later this month  —  Samsung Announces Updated Versions of the Galaxy A3, A5, and A7  —  Today Samsung announced that updated versions of their Galaxy A3, A5, and A7 smartphones are about to be released.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
BlueStacks hits over 109M downloads, 1B apps used per month, now supports multiple simultaneous Android apps on Windows  —  BlueStacks hits a billion apps used per month and launches new mobile platform  —  In 2011, BlueStacks was a small company when it debuted its virtualization platform …
More: The Verge and iMore.  Thanks:@akanksha1105
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Twitter Announces Digits for tvOS to Simplify the App Login Process  —  Following in Facebook's footsteps, Twitter today announced plans to make some of its Fabric developer toolkit available for tvOS apps.  Developers will be able to integrate Twitter's Digits feature into apps …
FBI:
FBI launches eFOIA system, putting individual FOIA requests and results online for the first time, but limits requests to one per day  —  Try New eFOIA System  —  The FBI recently began open beta testing of eFOIA, a system that puts Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests into a medium …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
State attorneys general from Iowa and Montana file a motion with the US Supreme Court to have the antitrust suit against the Paramount-WBD deal thrown out

Reuters:
Puck is in advanced talks for an investment from RedBird Capital; sources: the deal will value Puck at around $250M and give RedBird a significant stake

Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Pedro Pina, YouTube VP for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, defended YouTube against claims it is fueling British TV's decline during a speech in Edinburgh

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