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November 4, 2014, 12:35 PM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Dropbox and Microsoft partner to let users access Dropbox from Office apps, edit Office files from Dropbox app — Dropbox and Microsoft form surprise partnership for Office integration — Office mobile apps will soon seamlessly sync to Dropbox — Microsoft and Dropbox are teaming …

More: Office Blogs, The Dropbox Blog, News Center, ZDNet, Re/code, Gigaom, GeekWire, The Next Web, PC World, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Fortune, Fast Company, SlashGear and Seeking Alpha

Tweets: @thurrott and @tomwarren

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Amazon Prime customers now get unlimited cloud storage for photos — With so many backup options, losing your photos should be impossible — When it comes to backing up your photo library and life's most precious memories, it's good to have multiple options.

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Amazon Begins Extending Prime-Member Perks to Other Shopping Sites — Can Amazon Prime become the VIP pass for the rest of the web? — For the first time since launching its Prime membership program in 2005, Amazon is extending some of the club's perks to its members as they shop on other big shopping sites around the Web.

More: TechCrunch and Gizmodo

Andy / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay founder Fredrik Neij arrested in Asia, all three founders now behind bars — Pirate Bay Founder Fredrik Neij Arrested in Asia — Following the criminal convictions of Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, each went their separate ways.

More: CNET, Guardian, theWHIR.com, Engadget, TechCrunch, Kotaku, Business Insider, Tech in Asia and Gizmodo UK. See also Mediagazer

Steven Bertoni / Forbes:

Sean Rad to step down as Tinder CEO, will become president and remain on board — Exclusive: Sean Rad Out As Tinder CEO. Inside The Crazy Saga — Sean Rad, the cofounder and CEO of Tinder, an app that over the past two years has completely reinvented how young people date and mate, has been generating news regularly.

More: VatorNews, Business Insider, CNNMoney.com, Re/code, TechCrunch, Fortune, Valleywag, WebProNews, TIME, Mashable and New York Magazine

Tweets: @montalvo_d, @jonfortt, @stevenbertoni and @pkafka

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Alibaba Posts 54% Revenue Increase, But Net Profit Falls Below Expectations — Alibaba beat already high expectations for revenue growth in its first quarterly earnings report since its record-setting $25 billion initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in September, but missed its profit forecast.

Robert Hannigan / Financial Times:

UK's GCHQ chief says tech companies enable terrorism and child exploitation, wants them to better facilitate “lawful investigation” — The web is a terrorist's command-and-control network of choice — People do not want social media platforms to facilitate murder, writes Robert Hannigan

More: BBC, TechCrunch, Techdirt, Gizmodo, New York Times, BBC, Gigaom, The Next Web, The Register, BetaNews, ITProPortal, BBC, Mashable, Matthew Aid, Inquirer, Telegraph, CNET, Reuters and ZDNet

Tweets: @digiphile, @emptywheel and @rmack

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Kim Zetter / Wired:

Flaw in New ‘Secure’ Credit Cards Would Let Hackers Steal $1M Per Card — Chip-n-PIN cards like the one shown here are going to be widely in use in America by 2015. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images — As U.S. banks and retailers are barreling toward a 2015 deadline to replace magnetic-stripe credit …

More: Newcastle University, Gizmodo, ITworld.com, Gizmodo UK, The Register and Help Net Security

Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:

Confirmed: Apple opening Seattle software office — Apple is moving into enemy territory and has started an engineering office in Seattle, its first in the Northwest. — Like other California companies setting up shop in the shadow of Microsoft, Apple is attracted by the area's software talent …

More: GeekWire, Fortune, iMore, theWHIR.com, MacRumors, The Register, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, stratechery, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, App Advice, bizjournals, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, TUAW and Gizmodo UK. Tweets: @brentsimmons

Jessica E. Lessin / The Information:

Jawbone to launch more fitness wearables: UP3 with new sensors for $180, clip-on MOVE for $50 — Exclusive: Jawbone To Broaden Wearables Lineup — Jawbone is the latest wearable company to try to go where Apple is not going, with plans for two new activity trackers aimed at the low and mid-tiers.

More: VentureBeat, Digital Trends, PC World, bizjournals, iPhone Hacks, Ubergizmo, SlashGear and Wearables Arena

Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

MCX CEO: CurrentC exclusivity deal blocking Apple Pay at CVS will expire in months, not years — What Are the Anti-Apple Pay Merchants Afraid Of? — I've been a regular customer at CVS/pharmacy, the country's second-largest drugstore chain, for 20 years.

More: TechCrunch, Gigaom, The Verge, iMore, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Forbes, App Advice and MacDailyNews

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Acer's 12-inch Switch tablet is five devices in one — Thought Acer's Aspire Switch 10 tablet was a true jack-of-all-trades? It's already outclassed. The PC maker has officially revealed the Aspire Switch 12, a 12.5-inch sibling that's a little more flexible.

More: Laptop Mag, Gizmodo, BetaNews, ZDNet, ITProPortal, Computerworld, SlashGear, Electronista, Digital Trends, Geeky Gadgets and Liliputing

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Disney partners with Google to bring its cloud movie locker to Android and Google Play Movies — Disney would like consumers to continue to buy its movies. That's why the company now struck an alliance with Google to add its cloud locker to Android. — Disney took the next step …

More: Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Re/code, The Verge, CNET, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Android Central, Electronista, Seeking Alpha, iMore, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Reuters, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google and Engadget. Tweets: @mat. See also Mediagazer

Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal:

Samsung looking for up to 1M sq. ft. of office space in New York City for US expansion — Samsung Eyes Large New York City Expansion — Electronics Giant Seeks Up to 1 Million Square Feet of Office Space — Technology giant Samsung Electronics Co. is eyeing the creation …

More: 9to5Google

Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom:

Netflix open sources Dynomite to make any datastore distributed — With Dynomite, Netflix claims it can cut down on performance issues and better handle traffic spikes. — Netflix detailed on Monday a framework it has open sourced, called Dynomite, that can convert non-distributed databases …

More: The Netflix Tech Blog

Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review:

Butterfly Networks raises $100M to create handheld 3D medical imaging device using ultrasound — Jonathan Rothberg's New Startup Raises $100 Million for Chip-based Ultrasound — A scanner the size of an iPhone that you could hold up to a person's chest and see a vivid, moving …

More: Re/code, VentureBeat, Gigaom, StrictlyVC, Forbes, Xconomy and Mashable. Tweets: @alsaqqaf

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Android 5 Lollipop preview: intuitive notifications, better performance and battery life, developer tools strongly improve Android experience — Android 5.0 Lollipop preview: Google's biggest mobile update in years — There's something magical about the idea that, in the space of a few minutes …

More: Official Android Blog, Android Police, Geeky Gadgets, Digital Trends and Forbes

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Nexus Player review: video playback not smooth, slow, buggy, only 70 games and apps in store, great gamepad

More: Android Police, BGR, VatorNews and The Register

Chris Velazco / Engadget:

Nexus 9 review: great Lollipop tablet, powerful CPU, display and speakers could be better

More: iFixit, GeekWire, Gigaom, ZDNet, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, BGR, Tech Times, Inquirer, Ars Technica and Wall Street Journal

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