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October 23, 2014, 1:20 PM

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Bloomberg:

Christian Bale to play Steve Jobs in Aaron Sorkin's film, which will begin shooting in the next couple of months — Christian Bale Didn't Have to Audition for Jobs Film Role — Actor Christian Bale didn't have to audition for the role of Steve Jobs in the coming biopic of the Apple Inc. …

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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Ello raises $5.5M round led by Foundry Group; investors and founders commit to ad free mission and convert Ello to a public benefit corporation — Ello Raises $5.5 Million to Grow Its Ad-Free Social Network — Ello, the ad-free social network that promises users it will never sell their data …

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Marcus Wohlsen / Wired:

Mark Zuckerberg gives 30-minute public interview in Chinese at Tsinghua University — Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin, Blows Everyone's Mind — Think you're too busy to learn another language? Well, you're not the CEO of a $205 billion company, and apparently, even this rather demanding …

Businessweek:

Mark Zuckerberg appointed to China's Tsinghua University board

More: Digital Trends, Reuters, blogs.ft.com, Bloomberg and Tsinghua University. Tweets: @natashakhanhk

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

Google dominates search advertising but will likely be eclipsed in native ad category — Peak Google — Despite the hype about disruption, the truth is most tech giants, particularly platform providers, are not so much displaced as they are eclipsed. IBM, for example …

More: John Battelle's Search Blog, The Equity Kicker, Business Insider, ECPM BLOG and Beyond Search

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Launches Pseudonymous App “Rooms” That Lets You Create Forums About Any Topic — It's not quite anonymous, but forums standalone app Rooms is Facebook's first product that allows you to ditch your real name. Rooms lets you set up a mobile-only in-app discussion space about any topic …

More: The Verge, Facebook, New York Times, Gigaom, Business Insider, The Next Web, Re/code, VentureBeat, Wired and Rooms. Tweets: @vindugoel

iFixit:

iPad Air 2 Teardown — Step 1 — iPad Air 2 Teardown Just add air? That would be too easy. Apple has packaged all kinds of revised hardware into its thinnest tablet yet: Fully laminated, 9.7" IPS Multi-Touch LCD with a 2,048 x 1,536 resolution at 264 ppi and antireflective coating A8X 64-bit CPU …

Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:

Behind Twitter's Move to Become a Mobile-Services Shop — Twitter is looking to have its Google moment, the time when the tech giant began pushing to become more than just an Internet search engine. — For Twitter, this means staking a claim on the mobile universe as smartphones …

More: SiliconBeat and Dare Obasanjo's weblog. Tweets: @thirdweil, @rzkeller, @scottmaustin, @sacca, @rsarver, @bewickwren and @ethankurz

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Twitter's new Fabric SDK extends the company's reach in China, is already being used by Alibaba and Baidu

More: PC Magazine, AVC, Laughing Squid, USA Today, CNET, PC Magazine and TIME. Tweets: @sarahfrier

Matthew Miller / Reuters:

Apple CEO says to add 25 stores in China within two years: Sina — Apple CEO Tim Cook holds a new iPad after a presentation at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California October 16, 2014. — (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook said the company is planning to open 25 retail stores …

More: Wall Street Journal, CNET, AppleTell, TUAW, Tech in Asia, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, iMore, The Next Web and Mashable

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

German publishers grudgingly allow Google to display news snippets without compensation — German Publishers Bow To Google's Market Power In Ongoing Text Snippets Fight — A tug of war between Google and German publishers over how online news content is displayed in search results has ended in surrender …

More: PC World, VentureVillage, WebProNews and Gigaom. See also Mediagazer

David Meyer / Gigaom:

AWS comes to Germany as Amazon unveils second EU region, out of Frankfurt — The move has big implications for latency and resilience, and of course data protection — a particular concern for German businesses. — Amazon has launched its long-awaited German-based region - its second in Europe …

More: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon.com, The Register, ZDNet, The Next Web, GeekWire, TechCrunch, New York Times, bizjournals and Bloomberg

Rene Ritchie / iMore:

Which of the five iPads in Apple's 2014 lineup should you get? A buyer's guide — Which iPad should you get? — Apple's 2014 iPad lineup is jam-packed. At the top end there's the brand new iPad Air 2. Then there's the updated iPad mini 3, last year's iPad Air and last year's iPad mini 2 …

More: Gigaom, Macworld, WebProNews, PadGadget, 9to5Mac and Electronista. Tweets: @reneritchie

Reuters:

GT Advanced settles with Apple, to exit sapphire production — (Reuters) - GT Advanced Technologies Inc (GTATQ.PK) said it reached an agreement with Apple Inc (AAPL.O) under which it will stop making sapphire materials and focus on supplying equipment to make sapphire crystals.

More: GT Advanced Technologies Inc., iMore, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Gigaom, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Reuters and App Advice

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Apple Strengthens Pull of Its Orbit With Each Device — Late in 2012, when Tim Cook was relatively fresh on the job as Apple's chief executive, he made a sudden and potentially risky shuffle in the firm's executive ranks. He fired Scott Forstall, who had been in charge of Apple's mobile operating system …

More: MacDailyNews. Tweets: @nytimes

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Google's DeepMind Acqui-Hires Two AI Teams In The UK, Partners With Oxford — Earlier this year Google acquired DeepMind in the UK to expand the work that it is doing in artificial intelligence, and today the company announced that it is making some more significant moves to build this out even further.

More: The Next Web, Guardian, Google Europe Blog, Gigaom, 9to5Google, CNET, Business Insider, Neowin, Engadget, ZDNet and WebProNews

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Etsy introduces Square-like credit card reader, which charges sellers 2.75% per transaction, available only to Etsy's Direct Checkout users — Etsy Introduces Credit Card Reader to Go Beyond the Web — Online marketplace Etsy will start offering free credit card readers to some of its U.S. sellers …

More: Etsy News Blog, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Tweets: @gregcohn. Thanks:@delrey

Karissa Bell / Mashable:

Jawbone Drop Creates Tweet-Enabled Playlists for Your Jambox — Jawbone just made its Jambox speaker an even better party accessory. — The company rolled out a new music app, Jawbone Drop, that allows users to manage group playlists with tweets. — Unveiled at Twitter's Flight conference Wednesday …

More: Uber Blog, TechCrunch, Engadget, GeekWire, The Next Web, Engadget, TIME, WJLA-TV, bizjournals, The Jawbone Blog, MobileSyrup.com, City Desk, The Daily Dot, Pocket-lint and SlashGear

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Android Wear Update Adds Offline Music, Bluetooth Headphone And GPS Support — Android Wear is getting its first big update, with features that make smartwatches using Google's wearable operating system more standalone devices, including music syncing and GPS location support.

More: Official Android Blog, The Verge, Wired, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Mashable, TechnoBuffalo and 9to5Google

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Yahoo Search Now Shows Your Flights, Events & Packages In The Search Results — Yahoo announced that Yahoo Search, as well as Yahoo Mail's Today section will now show you your upcoming flights, events and package deliveries. — To see this, you need to sign in with your Yahoo username on your phone …

More: Yahoo, Yahoo Search, Ubergizmo, WebProNews, 9to5Google, iMore, SlashGear, VentureBeat, AndroidGuys and 9to5Mac

Mike Rogoway / Oregonian:

Urban Airship raises $12 million from existing backers — total investment nears $60 million — The funding suggests investors retain confidence in the business after a tumultuous 12 months. (Oregonian photo) — Portland mobile alerts company Urban Airship reported $12 million …

More: Digital Journal, bizjournals, GeekWire and Silicon Florist. Tweets: @rogoway

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