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October 28, 2014, 11:15 AM

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Lauren Goode / Re/code:

YouTube's Wojcicki says they're considering paid ad-free subscriptions, reaffirms a music service is on the way — Susan Wojcicki Wants to Sell You YouTube Video Subscriptions — YouTube is in the early stages of exploring new subscription services, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki told Re/code's Peter Kafka …

More: Wall Street Journal, PC World, SiliconANGLE, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, WebProNews, CNET, Electronista, Guardian, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, The Next Web and ECPM BLOG. Tweets: @stefanomaggi. See also Mediagazer

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Half of YouTube's views now come from phones and tablets — More people are watching videos on smaller screens — Where are people watching videos on YouTube? A little while ago, the majority were on desktop, but now the company says that half are tuning in from mobile devices like phones and tablets.

More: Re/code, ReelSEO Video Marketing, MobileSyrup.com and Android Central. Tweets: @marcsettle

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft borrows Mac trackpad gestures for Windows 10 — Microsoft introduced new trackpad gestures in Windows 8, but the company is expanding them further with the upcoming release of Windows 10. In a keynote speech at TechEd Europe today, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore demonstrated …

More: ZDNet, PC World, Laptop Mag, The Register, Gizmodo, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, The Tech Report, WinBeta and Windows Phone Central

Office Blogs:

Microsoft announces initiative for enabling apps built on Office 365, including new SDKs for iOS, Android, and Visual Studio, plus new APIs — New Office 365 extensibility for Windows, iOS, Android and web developers — In a world where people move between multiple devices and numerous apps …

More: MS Open Tech, BetaNews, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Computerworld, WinBeta, MSDN Blogs, InfoQ, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, PC World, iMore and The Verge. Tweets: @officedev

Ben Kepes / Forbes:

Microsoft announces new Azure services, built-in mobile device management for Office 365

More: ZDNet, Microsoft Azure Blog and Office Blogs

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

T-Mobile's John Legere Talks Apple SIM, iPhone 6 Demand, and Landing the iPhone — T-Mobile CEO John Legere today took the stage at Re/code's Code/Mobile event in Half Moon Bay, California, where he spoke on the new Apple SIM, demand for the iPhone 6 Plus, and the importance of selling the iPhone.

More: Re/code, Re/code, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, The Register, Electronista, 9to5Mac and TechCrunch

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

T-Mobile now up to 52.9M customers after biggest growth quarter in company history

More: Re/code, Fortune, BGR, ZDNet, DSLreports, Electronista, AppleInsider, iMore, Reuters, PhoneDog.com, CNET, Tech Trader Daily and TmoNews

Twitter:

Twitter Reports Third Quarter 2014 Results — SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - October 27, 2014 - Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2014. Q3 revenue of $361 million, up 114% year-over-year Q3 net loss of $175 million and non-GAAP net income …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter's Next Targets For Monetization Are Logged-Out And Casual Visitors

Tweets: @joshconstine and @ingridlunden

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Twitter Q3 MAU up 23% to 284M, a decline of 1% in growth compared to Q2; sales doubled to $361M, stock down more than 10% after hours

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Jack Ma and Tim Cook to talk this week on potential Alipay, Apple Pay partnership — Alibaba's Jack Ma “Very Interested” in Possible Apple Partnership — Jack Ma, co-founder and chairman of Alibaba and China's richest man, is interested in partnering Alipay with Apple's new mobile payments system, Apple Pay.

More: Wall Street Journal, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, iMore, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, USA Today, VentureBeat, Tech in Asia, AppleInsider, Fortune and WSJ Live Video. Tweets: @rblumenstein

Rich McCormick / The Verge:

Tim Cook says Apple killed the iPod classic because it couldn't get the parts — Apple CEO justifies shelving iconic device at WSJD Live — Apple quietly discontinued the iPod classic last month, just short of the iconic MP3 player's 13th birthday. Tonight, Apple CEO Tim Cook explained …

More: TUAW, VentureBeat, App Advice, Guardian, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, ABC News and Electronista

Tweets: @daiwaka and @benedictevans

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Verizon altering web traffic, inserting a unique identifier allowing websites to track you, with no opt-out available — Verizon's ‘Perma-Cookie’ Is a Privacy-Killing Machine — Verizon Wireless has been subtly altering the web traffic of its wireless customers for the past two years …

More: Gigaom and DSLreports. Tweets: @dangillmor and @j4cob

Wall Street Journal:

FireEye: Russian government sponsored malware found on US firm's network with military secrets — Hacking Trail Leads to Russia, Experts Say — Malicious Code Found at U.S. Firm Where Military Secrets Were Kept

More: The Register, ZDNet, Computerworld, Bloomberg, International Business Times, The Moscow Times, V3.co.uk, RIA Novosti and Marketwired

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

IHS: iPad Air 2 costs $275 to $358 to build, implied profit margin of 45% to 57% — Apple's Latest iPad Costs About the Same as the First but With Slightly Lower Profits — Apple's iPad Air 2 costs roughly the same to build as the iPad Air, with profit margins slightly lower than its predecessor …

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com and Business Insider

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Tidal launches as a $19.99 hi-fi music streaming service with editorial curation and videos — Tidal launches as a hi-fi music streaming service with editorial curation and videos — Aspiro Group, the company behind the WiMP Music streaming service in Europe, has launched a new service …

More: VentureBeat, The Verge, Guardian, Engadget, Forbes and Ubergizmo

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Tim Cook says Apple Pay activated in excess of 1M cards within first 72 hours — Tim Cook says that Apple Pay is already the leader in contactless payments — It's only been a week since Apple Pay made its debut, but apparently the launch has been successful thus far.

More: Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, Reuters, AppleInsider, TUAW, TechCrunch, SlashGear, NFC World+, CNET, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, NEWS.com.au and PC World

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Alienware Area 51 desktop with latest Intel processor and chipset coming in December, starts at $1,699 — Alienware shows off its new Area-51 gaming desktop — Alienware makes PCs for serious gamers. That's evident in a demo I saw of the Alienware Area-51 gaming desktop, which ships to retail Tuesday morning.

More: Gizmodo, Engadget, Engadget, The Verge, Computerworld, PC World, Windows Phone Central, Tech Times, VentureBeat, TechRadar.com and Laptop Mag

Dan Ackerman / CNET:

Alienware 13 gaming laptop adds a graphics amplifier for desktop-like performance

Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

Travel Search Site Hipmunk Cuts Yahoo Deal — Hipmunk is a tiny company compared to online travel giants like Priceline and Expedia that can far outspend it on marketing. — But Hipmunk, which has won a following for its simple, uncluttered hotel and flight search service …

More: Marketwired

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Algoriddim brings its popular Mac and iOS ‘djay’ app to Android w/ Spotify integration — Algoriddim, the team behind the popular music mixing app djay, first shipped the commercial version of its flagship app in 2007 on the Mac followed by the iPad version in 2010 and the iPhone version in 2011.

More: The Next Web, The Verge, MacRumors, Android Police and Engadget

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Taiwan's XYZprinting launches $800 all-in-one 3D printer and scanner — XYZprinting announced it has created an all-in-one 3D printer and scanner for sale starting today at $800. — The Da Vinci 1.0 all-in-one 3D printer allows just about anyone to create a 3D-printed object …

More: Computerworld, The Verge, Wall Street Journal and Gizmodo

Se Young Lee / Reuters:

LG says it will end the production of plasma TVs by the end of November — LG Electronics exit suggests end is near for plasma TVs — (Reuters) - South Korea's LG Electronics Inc said it will wind down its plasma television business by end-November, as a technology long overtaken …

More: Engadget and Electronista

Elizabeth Rust / Guardian:

Should we be concerned about Placemeter - an app which monitors street views from apartment windows? — Placemeter pays New Yorkers to suction-cup an old smartphone to their window, then records and analyses what's happening outside — Placemeter's algorithm counts the number of people entering shops and monitors traffic levels

Tweets: @onekade and @agpublic

Anna Irrera / Wall Street Journal:

UBS CIO: Blockchain Technology Can Massively Simplify Banking — What technology has the potential to disrupt the financial services sector the most? — It's not the tech giants like Apple , Facebook or Google , who have all made recent moves into payments services.

Tweets: @microexchanges

Andy Baio / Medium:

Analysis of 316,669 #Gamergate and #NotYourShield tweets in 72 hours: 69% retweets, 25% of activity from recently created accounts — 72 Hours of #Gamergate — Digging through 316,669 tweets from three days of Twitter's two-month-old trainwreck — Visualizing the social graph of the #GamerGate/#NotYourShield universe

More: New York Magazine. Tweets: @jeremydlarson, @davidahilljr, @robtruman, @mattthomas, @robmillis, @chrismessina, @badscience125 and @garf02

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