The fire hydrant of tech news has been switched on in this, the first week of 2017, by the start of CES in Las Vegas, and Faultline Online Reporter will bring you many reports from that event. But once piece of news we have yet to pronounce on came out just after we went to press with our last issue in 2016, the fact that Nielsen has agreed to acquire TV and movie metadata and music tracking business Gracenote, from Tribune Media, paying $560 million for it in cash. Nielsen has everything to lose from global video advertising moving from the broadcast TV medium to IP driven advertising such as programmatic, real time auctions and addressable advertising – and this…