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November 17, 2014, 8:10 AM

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Apple:

Apple Adds UnionPay Payment Option for App Store Customers in China — Apple® today announced that the App Store has added UnionPay as a payment option for customers in China. China UnionPay is the most popular payment card in China and will provide App Store customers with a simple …

Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:

Facebook at Work, now in testing at several companies, will enable document collaboration and chat, and let users separate personal and work profiles — Facebook is making ‘Facebook at Work,’ so you can Facebook at work — You already Facebook at work, so here's “Facebook at Work.”

More: Financial Times, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Marketing Land, Fortune, Digital Trends, VatorNews, Business Insider, SocialTimes, The Next Web, Engadget, memeburn, Guardian, Ubergizmo, Reuters, Forbes and Seeking Alpha

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Connie Loizos / StrictlyVC:

Nest's hierarchical, meeting-centric culture is said to clash with Dropcam's — Unrest at Nest — Sitting on stage last week at a San Francisco conference, Greg Duffy, the 28-year-old co-founder and CEO of Dropcam, which makes Internet-connected video cameras, fielded questions from an audience of startup founders.

Tweets: @km and @jyarow

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Sources: Uber's gross revenue expected to hit a run rate of $10B by the end of 2015 — Now I Know Why Investors Are Going Hog Wild About Uber ... The digital taxi service Uber is raising money again, which means that people are once again gawping at the company's valuation.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @muneebmushtaq, @hkanji and @jowyang

Grady Smith / Guardian:

Forgoing streaming and iTunes sales, Garth Brooks sees meager sales for his comeback album — How Garth Brooks took on the internet - and lost — The poor sales of his comeback album Man Against Machine show that taking a stand against the modern music business only works if you're Taylor Swift

More: Associated Press and ParisLemon. See also Mediagazer

Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:

Q&A: Alibaba Senior Executive On Apple, M&A and U.S. Plans — After going public in September in a $25 billion initial public offering, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is gearing up for the next stage of its growth. As the company continues to expand, it is pursuing alliances …

More: iMore. Thanks:@srikardr

Cade Metz / Wired:

Facebook's new data center sidesteps a hierarchical network model, avoiding the expensive switches made by Cisco and Juniper — Facebook's New Data Center Is Bad News for Cisco — Facebook is now serving the American heartland from a data center in the tiny town of Altoona, Iowa.

Thanks:@sarahaasullivan

Carol Morello / Washington Post:

State Department shuts down its e-mail system amid concerns about hacking — The State Department scrambled over the weekend to secure its unclassified e-mails, shutting down the entire e-mail system after finding evidence suggesting a hacker may have been been poking around.

More: New York Times, NBC News, Gizmodo, BetaNews and Business Insider. Tweets: @davegirouard

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Foodpanda and Delivery Hero swap subsidiaries in India, Latin America to consolidate positions, reduce competition — Foodpanda and Delivery Hero Acquire Companies From Each Other In India, Mexico, And Latin America — Competing food delivery apps Foodpanda, which is backed by Rocket Internet …

More: Tech.eu, The Next Web and Trak.in

Alex Zaharov-Reutt / ITWire.com:

Google partners with Australia's biggest telecom Telstra for 20-balloon Project Loon trial in Queensland — VIDEO: Google's Bal-LOON-y trial gets QLD Telstra spectrum — Google is extending trials of its broadband-by-balloon project entitled Project Loon, and while it has already previously conducted …

More: Guardian, The Verge, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Engadget, Business Spectator and Delhi Daily News

Shelly Walia / Quartz:

Uber offers Paytm's prepaid digital wallet to comply with credit card regulations in India — India's credit card rules just took the ease out of Uber — For the Indian commuter, Uber has been the coolest ride on the block. The cab-booking service's convenient, cashless payment system …

More: Uber Blog, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, The Economic Times and Tech in Asia. Tweets: @mitrakalita

The Physics arXiv Blog:

As scientific publishing goes digital, researchers increasingly cite older work in papers — The Extraordinary Growing Impact Of The History Of Science — Old scientific papers never die, they just fade away. Or they used to. Now electronic publishing has made old papers as easy to find as new ones …

More: Beyond Search. Tweets: @galenward, @cdixon and @mattjhodgkinson

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