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    • Sources: Medium CEO Ev Williams had preliminary talks about buying New York Media, parent of New York Magazine; source said talks are "unlikely to progress" (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Sources: Medium CEO Ev Williams had preliminary talks about buying New York Media, parent of New York Magazine; source said talks are “unlikely to progress”  —  – The Twitter co-founder says he wants to invest in media in ’19  — Magazine publisher has been exploring its options this year Sources: Medium CEO Ev Williams

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    • Sources: Facebook is in talks with pay TV channels, including HBO, Showtime, and Starz, about selling their streaming TV services on its platform (Peter Kafka/Recode)

    Peter Kafka / Recode: Sources: Facebook is in talks with pay TV channels, including HBO, Showtime, and Starz, about selling their streaming TV services on its platform  —  The world’s biggest social network wants to get into the pay TV business — by taking a page from Amazon.  —  Facebook is readying … Sources: Facebook

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    • SEC filing: Imax will close its remaining three virtual reality centers and write off "certain VR investments"; the three sites are expected to close in Q1 2019 (Janko Roettgers/Variety)

    Janko Roettgers / Variety: SEC filing: Imax will close its remaining three virtual reality centers and write off “certain VR investments”; the three sites are expected to close in Q1 2019  —  Imax is making its exit from virtual reality (VR) official: The company notified shareholders with a SEC filing Thursday … SEC filing: Imax

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    • Tumblr reappeared on the App Store this week, after being pulled in November over child pornography concerns and 10 days after announcing a ban on adult content (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

    Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Tumblr reappeared on the App Store this week, after being pulled in November over child pornography concerns and 10 days after announcing a ban on adult content  —  Tumblr is back.  Sort of.  The social blogging platform reappeared on Apple’s App Store this week, some three weeks after being pulled over

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    • Starbucks partners with UberEats to deliver food and coffee from a quarter of its US stores starting in 2019, following a pilot program in Miami in September (Nivedita Balu/Reuters)

    Nivedita Balu / Reuters: Starbucks partners with UberEats to deliver food and coffee from a quarter of its US stores starting in 2019, following a pilot program in Miami in September  —  (Reuters) – Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) said on Thursday it is partnering with UberEats to deliver food and coffee from nearly a quarter …

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    • Apple is notifying artists that it is removing their ability to post to Apple Music Connect and is removing previously posted content from Artist Pages (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

    Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple is notifying artists that it is removing their ability to post to Apple Music Connect and is removing previously posted content from Artist Pages  —  Apple Music Connect appears to slowly be going the way of iTunes Ping.  Apple has started notifying Apple Music artists that it is removing …

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    • Juniper Square, which operates a platform for commercial real estate investment firms, raises $25M Series B led by Ribbit Capital (Kate Clark/TechCrunch)

    Kate Clark / TechCrunch: Juniper Square, which operates a platform for commercial real estate investment firms, raises $25M Series B led by Ribbit Capital  —  Juniper Square, a four-year-old startup at the intersection of enterprise software, real estate and financial technology, has brought in an additional $25 million … Juniper Square, which operates a platform

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    • Google says it won't sell general-purpose facial recognition APIs before working through "important technology and policy questions" (Kent Walker/Google)

    Kent Walker / Google: Google says it won’t sell general-purpose facial recognition APIs before working through “important technology and policy questions”  —  More than 400 million people in the world have diabetes.  A third of them have diabetic retinopathy, a complication that can cause permanent blindness. Google says it won't sell general-purpose facial recognition APIs

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    • Some current and former fact-checkers say Facebook has ignored their concerns, they have been used for PR, and they have lost trust in the company (Sam Levin/The Guardian)

    Sam Levin / The Guardian: Some current and former fact-checkers say Facebook has ignored their concerns, they have been used for PR, and they have lost trust in the company  —  Journalists paid to help fix Facebook’s fake news problem say they have lost trust in the platform  —  Journalists working as factcheckers … Some

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