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November 14, 2014, 9:20 AM

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Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:

Secret US DOJ program collecting data from thousands of cellphones through phony communications “towers” deployed on airplanes — Americans' Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program — Fake Cellphone Towers on Planes Used to Target Criminals, but Also Sift Through Thousands of Other Phones

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Reddit CEO Yishan Wong resigns, Ellen Pao to be interim CEO, Alexis Ohanian back full time as executive chairman — Reddit Chief Executive Resigns as Company Shuffles Top Ranks — Reddit, the popular online community message board, wants to grow up into a viable business.

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Alexis Ohanian / reddit:

As executive chairman, Alexis Ohanian says Reddit's focus will be on mobile, UX, and community tools

More: Reuters, ITProPortal, Silicon Republic, TIME, Upstart Business Journal, SlashGear, bizjournals, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Daily Dot, Re/code, WebProNews, The Next Web and VentureBeat. Tweets: @alexisohanian

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

Google underwriting quadruples the prestigious A.M. Turing Award, which recognizes contributions to computing, to $1M, now on par with Nobel prize money — Google Lifts the Turing Award Into Nobel Territory — The A.M.Turing Award is often called the Nobel prize of computer science.

More: Inquirer, 9to5Google, Engadget, CNET, Mashable, Associated Press and ACM

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Tony Fadell backed Keyssa announces ‘Kiss Connectivity’ tech which offers wireless transfer speeds of up to 6Gb/sec via EHF between devices — Keyssa ‘Kiss Connectivity’ Promises Faster Wireless Data Transfer — You need almost a minute to copy a high-definition …

More: BGR, Ubergizmo, Keyssa, Business Insider and Gigaom. Tweets: @dbrunache

Matteo Gamba:

Facebook's redesign of Places directory shows focus on personalized local search and discovery — Facebook Goes After Yelp & Foursquare With Redesigned Places Directory — Do you want to discover great places around the world? Facebook's new feature offers to help.

More: Search Engine Land, The Daily Dot, The Next Web, InvestorPlace, Lifehacker, Search Engine Watch and AllFacebook

Adam Zeis / iMore:

Photo Editor by Aviary updated with creative cloud sync and $200 worth of free effects — Aviary has today announced their biggest update since joining forces with Adobe, bring a much improved Photo Editor by Aviary app to Android and iOS. The photo editing app — which allows users to edit …

More: Aviary Blog, The Register, Android Police, VentureBeat, Engadget, iClarified, 9to5Mac, App Advice, MobileSyrup.com, AndroidHeadlines.com, PetaPixel and Photography Bay

Erin Egan / Facebook:

Facebook proposes changes to its terms, data and cookies policies; releases interactive privacy guides; lets users opt out of certain ads on all devices — Updating our Terms and Policies: Helping You Understand How Facebook Works and How to Control Your Information

Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News:

Apple downplays Masque threat, ‘not aware’ of any users affected — CUPERTINO — In Apple's first statement since a vulnerability in its popular mobile devices was described by security specialists, the company said Thursday that it was unaware of any user actually being hacked through the “Masque Attack” technique.

Jessica E. Lessin / The Information:

Samsung to invest millions in short-form video for new mobile service; may use pay-per-month revenue model and include music — Samsung Preps New Mobile Video Service — Samsung Electronics is rebooting its mobile video strategy in a test of whether short-form video content can drive mobile revenues just as games have.

More: Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, CNET, SamMobile, Business Insider and Engadget

John Ribeiro / PC World:

SAP to pay $359M to Oracle instead of the $1.3B awarded in 2010, to settle long-running TomorrowNow lawsuit — Oracle, SAP settle long-standing TomorrowNow lawsuit — SAP and Oracle have settled a long-standing copyright-infringement lawsuit, with the German company agreeing to pay …

More: ZDNet, The Register, ABC News, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and Reuters

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Amazon Announces EC2 Container Service For Managing Docker Containers On AWS — At its re:invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon today announced its first Docker-centric product: the EC2 Container Service for managing Docker containers on its cloud computing platform.

More: Amazon Web Services Blog, ZDNet, Data Center Knowledge, Docker Blog, The Register, Bloomberg, eWeek, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, InfoWorld, Amazon.com, The New Stack, Gigaom, VentureBeat and GeekWire

Ron Miller / TechCrunch:

Amazon Launches Lambda, An Event-Driven Compute Service

More: Amazon Web Services Blog, Ars Technica, InfoWorld, ZDNet, CIO.com, GeekWire, The Register, Amazon.com, InfoQ, Forbes and VentureBeat

Dan Primack / Fortune:

AngelList rolls out new “Funds”, which allow institutional investors to back portfolios of startups — A disruptor shakes up angel investing — One recent evening a group of institutional money managers was ushered into a backroom at San Francisco brasserie the Cavalier via …

More: bizjournals. Tweets: @jason, @grahamjenkin, @eladgil and @shaig

Wilson Rothman / Wall Street Journal:

SanDisk announces iXpand flash drive with USB and Lightning connectors, 16GB for $59.99 and 64GB for $119.99 — iPhone and iPad Get Extra Storage and Easy Back-Ups With SanDisk iXpand … When it comes to iPhones and iPads, storage can be a huge pain. Apple charges an arm and a leg …

More: MacRumors, Macworld, AppleInsider, BGR, CNBC and TUAW

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Sprint extends leasing program to new iPads — Do you want a 16GB iPad Air 2 with a cellular connection? It'll cost you $20 a month for 24 months. — Sprint is putting a few more eggs in the leasing basket. — The company said Thursday that it would expand its “iPhone for Life” …

More: Sprint, Cult of Mac, Wireless Week, PhoneDog.com, Electronista, iClarified, TWICE, iDownloadBlog.com, Gigaom, iMore, BGR and 9to5Mac

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