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October 30, 2014, 6:35 AM

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Todd Holmdahl / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft Health, a platform including a cloud service announced, works with Jawbone UP, RunKeeper, more; app available for Android, iOS — Introducing Microsoft Health — Today we're announcing a new platform called Microsoft Health. Within health and fitness, there is rapid innovation …

David Pierce / The Verge:

Microsoft Band announced, a wearable that tracks health, shows emails, tweets; available for $199 in US tomorrow — Microsoft's health revolution is here, starting with a $199 fitness tracker — Microsoft Health, the Microsoft Band, and a plan to unite the world — Microsoft's fitness tracking ambitions are not small.

Jason Schreier / Kotaku:

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Joe Rossignol / 9to5Google:

Xiaomi overtakes LG to become world's third-largest smartphone maker — The latest numbers from Strategy Analytics reveal that Chinese handset maker Xiaomi has surpassed Huawei and LG to become the third-largest smartphone maker in the world. Xiaomi has been making impressive strides since …

More: IDC, Re/code, Engadget, Wireless Smartphone Strategies, CNET, Android Central and Tech Trader Daily. Tweets: @asymco. Thanks:@rsgnl

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

CurrentC alerts users of its pilot program that some email addresses were stolen by hackers — Wal-Mart's Answer To Apple Pay Has Already Been Hacked — Here's a bad sign for CurrentC, the fledgling mobile payment system in development by a consortium of retailers.

TechCrunch:

MCX: open to switching from QR codes to NFC and non-exclusivity; reported hack only occurred at email provider

More: Business Insider, New York Times, TIME, MLive.com, eWeek, The Daily Dot, The Verge, Macworld, Gotta Be Mobile, AppleInsider, App Advice, Mercury News and Fortune. Tweets: @monkbent

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Samsung's Q3 profit drops 60% YoY to $3.9 billion, mobile division profit down 74% YoY — Samsung's Q3 financials show ongoing struggles in mobile — The Korean electronics giant posts a 74 percent drop in its mobile business operating profits during the September period.

More: Reuters, Associated Press, SamMobile, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, PC World, ABC News, Bloomberg, Engadget and Wall Street Journal

Tweets: @monkbent, @asymco, @charlesarthur and @monkbent

Chris Moody / The Twitter Blog:

IBM to incorporate Twitter data into its analytics tools, enterprise solutions — Changing the way business decisions are made — We believe that social data has unlimited value, and near limitless application. Today, we're taking an important step toward unleashing this value through a new relationship with IBM.

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Windows Phone Shrinks In Android-Dominated Europe, As New iPhones Boost iOS' Share — Spare a thought for Microsoft, a relative newcomer to the mobile making business, after Redmond completed its $7.2BN+ acquisition of former European mobile making powerhouse Nokia earlier this year.

More: Kantar Worldpanel, 9to5Mac, NEWS.com.au, Windows Phone Central, GeekWire, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, Android Central, iMore and MacRumors

David Kravets / Ars Technica:

MPAA, movie theaters announce “zero tolerance” policy against wearables — A movie theater industry group and the Motion Picture Association of America updated their anti-piracy policies and said that “wearable devices” must be powered off at show time. — “Individuals who fail or refuse …

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Lenovo Completes $2.9 Billion Motorola Purchase From Google — When Motorola President Rick Osterloh said Tuesday that the Lenovo deal was nearly done, he wasn't kidding. — Lenovo officially completed its $2.9 billion deal with Google early Thursday. Osterloh will remain in his role …

More: Reuters

Chris Velazco / Engadget:

Google takes another step into your living room with its Nexus Player (hands-on) — Google's wanted a piece of your living room for ages, and now — after two attempts that never really went anywhere =- the search giant seems poised to get it what it wants.

More: VentureBeat, 9to5Google, BetaNews and Gizmodo

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Flipboard's New App Gets Personal By Making Topics The Center Of Attention — Flipboard has been working hard over the last few years to build an app that makes reading stories on mobile and tablet devices as engaging as flipping through a magazine. With the latest version of its app …

More: Inside Flipboard, The Verge, iMore, The Next Web, ReadWrite, New York Times, VentureBeat and Gigaom

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Google Play Movies & TV app gets redesign, second-screen experience w/ actor & soundtrack info — Google today announced that it's rolling out an updated Google Play Movies & TV app for Android that introduces a second-screen experience when streaming TV shows and movies to a Chromecast or Nexus Player-connected TV.

More: Official Android Blog, Gigaom, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Engadget and Android Central

Cade Metz / Wired:

Facebook open-sources OSquery, a security tool to monitor OS processes, network connections — Facebook, Google, and the Rise of Open Source Security Software — Facebook chief security officer Joe Sullivan says that people like Mike Arpala are hard to find.

More: Facebook Code, Gigaom, Threatpost and ZDNet

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Homejoy Officially Moves Beyond Cleaning With Launch Of Handyman Services In The Bay Area — In its first big move beyond home cleaning, Homejoy is adding carpet cleaning and general handyman services to its offerings in the Bay Area. — Co-founder and CEO Adora Cheung …

More: BuzzFeed and The Next Web

Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal:

Sony Replaces Mobile Division Head — Hiroki Totoki Has Been Widely Viewed as Instrumental in Sony's Structural Reforms — TOKYO— Sony Corp. on Thursday named Senior Vice President Hiroki Totoki as the new head of its mobile division, the electronics giant's latest move to prop up its struggling smartphone business.

More: ZDNet, AndroidHeadlines.com, Telecompaper and Reuters

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Lenovo announces 13" Yoga Tablet 2 with Windows, available November, prices start at $699.99 — Lenovo adds a 13-inch Windows tablet to the Yoga mix — Not content with launching five Yoga-branded tablets earlier this month, Lenovo has added a sixth device to its range.

More: Engadget, ZDNet, CNET, PC World, TechRadar.com, Ubergizmo, GSMArena Blog, Liliputing, BetaNews, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile and PC World

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Chat App Line's Revenue Doubles Year-On-Year To Reach $192 Million in Q3 2014 — Days after Facebook revealed that WhatsApp, its $18 billion messaging app acquisition, posted an overall loss for the first half of this year, Line — a rival app with 500 million registered users …

More: Reuters, Financial Times, MediaNama and GlobalPost

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Google Wallet adds recurring bank transfers for automatically adding money, low balance alerts — Google today announced it's adding new ways to add money to its Google Wallet service in addition to some new features that will make keeping an eye on your balance easier.

More: The Next Web, Android Police, Google Commerce, Digital Trends, iDownloadBlog.com and SlashGear

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Microsoft lays off 638 in Seattle area, 3,000 globally, nearly completing its planned 18K cuts — Microsoft cuts another 3,000 jobs, finishing last big phase of layoffs … Microsoft this morning cut an additional 3,000 jobs from its workforce around the world, saying it has now completed almost …

More: ZDNet, Ars Technica, Seattle Times blogs, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, The Register, WinBeta and Windows Phone Central. Thanks:@johnhcook

Jon Fortt / CNBC:

Twitter consumer engineering VP Jeremy Gordon and analytics group lead Adam Kinney resigning as company plans reorg — More Twitter exits: 2 key executives flying away — Twitter is planning yet another reorganization in its engineering department, and two respected managers plan to resign, CNBC has learned.

More: Wall Street Journal, Re/code, TechCrunch and Gigaom

Tweets: @jeremysf, @kadamk and @mikeisaac

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

AG Kamala Harris releases data breach report: 18.5M Californians lost personal data in 2013, up from 2.5M in 2012 — Report Analyzes Extent of Data Breaches in California — SAN FRANCISCO — The constant drumbeat of data breaches won't cease anytime soon, according to a new report …

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