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Disney has threatened to pull its programming from Altice USA (NYSE:ATUS), which owns Optimum and Suddenlink, if it doesn't receive "hundreds of millions of dollars" in new fees to carry ESPN (NYSE:DIS) and ABC. Disputes between cable companies are common in the age of cord-cutting, but this is thought to be the first time that a carrier has publicly balked at charges sought for America's most popular sports network.

Not seeing an update since 2008, Google Finance (GOOG, GOOGL) is overhauling its platform in November. Users will still be able to follow individual stocks and the latest industry news, but its Portfolios feature will no longer be available. The huge move could target competitors such as Yahoo Finance (NYSE:VZ) and conversation platform StockTwits.

"We will be investing roughly $4B, next year, of capital in the Permian Basin, and we plan to grow production over the next several years to well in excess of 400K bpd," Chevron's (NYSE:CVX) Ryan Krogmeier told the S&P Global Platts APPEC conference. The company expects crude output from all Permian producers to rise by 1.4M bpd in 2020, from 2.4M bpd at present.

It's the first major portfolio change under new CEO John Flannery. General Electric (NYSE:GE) is selling its industrial solutions business to ABB for $2.6B as the latter looks to expand its reach in North American markets. ABB expects to realize $200M of annual cost synergies from the deal, which includes terms for long-term use of GE's brand.

London is kicking Uber out of the city because it is not "fit and proper," but the ride-hailing service is prepared to make concessions. "While we haven't been asked to make any changes, we'd like to know what we can do," Tom Elvidge, UBER's general manager in London, told the Sunday Times. "But that requires a dialogue we sadly haven't been able to have recently."

Lufthansa is reportedly offering to pay €200M for Air Berlin's (OTCPK:AIBEF) assets, plus €100M to meet operating costs, while the latter scored a €150M government bridge loan to keep flying for three months. Air Berlin's creditor committee has named Lufthansa (OTCQX:DLAKF) and Easyjet (OTCPK:EJTTF) as possible buyers for the insolvent carrier's assets and has given three weeks for negotiations to take place.

Expanding its personal care business, Unilever (UL, UN) has agreed to buy cosmetics firm Carver Korea from Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Bain Capital for €2.27B. Quick turnaround? The two bought their stake in Carver, whose brands include A.H.C. and Eye Cream for Face, just last year. The acquisition should strengthen Unilever's position in north Asia, the world's largest skincare market.

Nine days after Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as "crazy" the idea that fake news on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) played a key role in the U.S. election, President Obama met with the billionaire to seriously consider the threat of disinformation. At a Nov. 19 conference in Peru, Zuck acknowledged the problem posed by fake news, but said those messages weren't widespread and that there was no easy remedy, the Washington Post reports.

The battle for the cloud has entered the Middle East. Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ:AMZN) is planning three availability zones for Bahrain by "early 2019," beating Google's Cloud Platform (GOOG, GOOGL) and Microsoft's Azure (NASDAQ:MSFT) in opening infrastructure across the region. The news comes just a few months after Amazon completed its $580M acquisition of Souq.com, which is the Middle East's biggest ecommerce site.