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November 18, 2013, 4:45 PM

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Marissa Mayer / Yahoo:

Yahoo will encrypt all information moving between its data centers by the end of Q1 2014 — Our Commitment to Protecting Your Information — We've worked hard over the years to earn our users' trust and we fight hard to preserve it. — As you know, there have been a number of reports …

More: Ars Technica, The Register, PC Magazine, Data Center Knowledge, GeekWire, Computerworld, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, The Switch, ZDNet, Engadget, SecurityWeek, The Verge, SlashGear, Threatpost, bizjournals, Electronista, The Next Web and WebProNews

Tweets: @om, @mikeisaac, @runasand, @csoghoian and @mattbuchanan

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Will Follow Google In Encrypting Data Center Traffic, Customer Data Flow By Q1 '14

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Meet The ‘Assassination Market’ Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins — As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin. If one anarchist has his way, it'll soon be used to buy murder, too.

More: The Verge, Mashable, Bitcoin Blogger and WebProNews. Tweets: @greg_palast

John Phillips / CNBC:

Bitcoin surges above $600 ahead of key week — Bitcoin touched a fresh all-time high on Monday as the digital currency continued to gain favor with investors. — The virtual currency rose to just under $619 on Mt. Gox exchange Monday afternoon in Asia, up by over 25 percent from the same time on Sunday.

More: Business Insider, Tech in Asia, MarketWatch, ValueWalk, MoneyBeat, Mashable, CoinDesk and Singularity Hub. Tweets: @kashhill

Max Raskin / Bloomberg:

DOJ and SEC to note legitmate uses for Bitcoin in Senate hearing

More: Examiner, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, TIME, MoneyBeat, TheStreet.com, Bitcoin Blogger, VentureBeat, USA Today, SlashGear, Mashable, CoinDesk, Wired, Union Square Ventures and Business Insider

Tweets: @kashhill and @jonmatonis

Jon Matonis / CoinDesk:

US has Already Ceded Dominance in Bitcoin Trading

More: The Next Web, Forbes, Tech in Asia, TechNode, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Payments News and Trends

Tweets: @shak and @coindesk

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Google is working on a new Android camera API, supports Camera RAW — Could a new API with many new features shore up one a big Android weak spot? — The Nexus 5 camera was a huge disappointment, especially after comments from high-ranking Googler Vic Gundotra stating that …

Burkhard Bilger / New Yorker:

Inside Google's Driverless Car — Has the self-driving car at last arrived? Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights, signal to the left and turn to the right. They drink too much beer and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids.

More: InfoWorld, StrictlyVC, 9to5Google, The Verge, dailywireless.org, AllThingsD and Softpedia News

Ted Johnson / Variety:

NFL, Major League Baseball Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts — The National Football League and Major League Baseball are urging the Supreme Court to grant broadcasters' petition to hear their challenge to the legality of Aereo, the startup that features unauthorized streams of local broadcast signals.

More: Gigaom, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Businessweek, CNNMoney.com, VatorNews, Engadget, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, The Verge, Gigaom Research, TechSpot and Poynter. See also Mediagazer

Grant Gross / Computerworld:

Google to pay $17M to states in Apple cookies case — State attorneys general accused the company of circumventing cookie-blocking defaults in the Safari browser — Google has reached a $17 million settlement with 37 U.S. states and the District of Columbia over its unauthorized placement …

More: ag.ny.gov, Reuters, GeekWire, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, BGR, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, The Huffington Post, Valleywag, WebProNews and Capital New York

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Apple wins another chance to ban Samsung phones for infringing its patents — In a ruling delivered today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has given Apple another chance at halting sales of Samsung smartphones that infringe on its patents.

More: Law Blog, FOSS Patents, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacNN

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Salesforce.com's Q3: Beats estimates, raises outlook, promises $5B rev by 2015 — Summary: However a net loss appears to have thrown investors off a little bit as Salesforce shares were down by approximately three percent in after-hours trading. — SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com …

More: TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily and Thomson IR

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Salesforce.com Launches Salesforce1, A New CRM Platform For Connecting Apps, Services Like Dropbox …

More: Gigaom, NYT Bits, ZDNet, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Register, PC World, InfoWorld, ZDNet, Forbes, The Next Web, CITEworld, SiliconANGLE, Little Bird, Gigaom and VentureBeat. Tweets: @bnara75

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Google blocks child porn in 100,000 searches, plans filter for YouTube — Google Chairman Eric Schmidt today said his company's search engine has made it far more difficult to find images of child pornography and that Google is developing a technology that will identify children being abused in YouTube videos.

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Nokia Lumia 1520 review: the best Windows Phone device yet — Windows Phone has never looked this good. The latest update to Microsoft's mobile operating system, known as Update 3, added support for 1080p displays, large smartphone screens and state-of-the-art processors.

More: Nokia Conversations, The Verge, BGR, ZDNet, The Next Web, CNET, My Nokia Blog, Gizmodo and WMPoweruser. Tweets: @tomwarren

Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:

SurveyMonkey Releases Business Version of Popular Questionnaire Software — Corporations have a few questions for you. And then a few more. That trend is likely to increase, thanks to the way they are trying to make sense of your every move. — SurveyMonkey, which makes the online technology …

More: PR Newswire, Forbes, SiliconBeat and TechCrunch

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Password hack of vBulletin.com fuels fears of in-the-wild 0-day attacks — Forums software maker vBulletin has been breached by hackers who got access to customer password data and other personal information in a compromise that has heightened speculation there may be a critical vulnerability …

More: Computerworld, Krebs on Security and Inquirer

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

Qualcomm's Toq smartwatch available December 2nd for $350 — Where mobile devices are concerned, Qualcomm's normally a behind-the-scenes player, but that's all set to change next month. The company has announced that its Toq smartwatch is coming to the market on December 2nd.

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

IBM and Nvidia Team Up on Supercomputing and Servers — Here's a second bit of interesting news on the supercomputing front. Computing giant IBM and chipmaker Nvidia will today announce a significant partnership that will have them teaming up on the design and building of new supercomputing systems and servers.

More: Engadget, Digits, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Computerworld, AnandTech, VentureBeat, The Register, SlashGear and TechEye

Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal:

Young people aren't reliable predictors of tech trends. So where does that leave Snapchat? — We all tend to assume that young people are on the technological vanguard, knowing what ‘the next big thing’ will be. But they are often wrong.

More: Bijan Sabet, Gigaom, New York Times, Business Insider and The Switch

Tweets: @drew, @drew, @mat, @danprimack, @fmanjoo, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac and @reddy

New York Times:

Rejected bid for Snapchat underscores difficulties Facebook has in keeping its cachet

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Stowe Boyd, TIME, Business Insider and The Next Web. Tweets: @stoweboyd

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