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November 17, 2014, 12:25 PM

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Hidden In Spotify's App Code Alongside Uber, Plans To Launch Podcasts And Something ‘Magic’ — Spotify's upcoming integration with Uber — getting announced formally today — is not the only development the music streaming service has planned to grow its business.

More: Business Insider, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac and Music Week. Tweets: @friedman. See also Mediagazer

Billy Steele / Engadget:

Spotify confirms Uber integration, will launch on Nov. 21st, in 10 cities around the world — Uber brings Spotify streaming to your morning commute — Reports surfaced last week that Uber riders would soon be able to blast tunes from Spotify during the commute, and now the partnership is official.

More: Uber Blog, The Next Web, Spotify and Gizmodo. See also Mediagazer

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Apple Adds UnionPay, China's Largest Bankcard Network, To App Store Payment Options — App Store customers in China can now link their UnionPay debit or credit cards to their Apple IDs for purchases, Apple announced today. — This is significant for Apple and Chinese consumers because China UnionPay …

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: @stevesi, @km and @jyarow

Jane L. Levere / New York Times:

Airbnb launches Pineapple, a quarterly print magazine focused on travel; $12 at select stores — Airbnb Introducing Print Magazine, Pineapple — Following in the footsteps of other digital brands like CNET and WebMD, Airbnb is getting into the print magazine business.

More: The Awl, Business Insider, The Drum, Guardian, PR Newswire, Dexigner, FishbowlNY and Street Fight

Tweets: @besvinick, @jonmarino and @susie_c

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Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:

Alibaba co-founder and vice-chairman Joe Tsai talks Apple, M&A and the company's U.S. plans — 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.

More: AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog and iMore. Thanks:@srikardr

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: bizjournals and 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. Tweets: @monkbent and @guardianus

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.”

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

A new program at San Quentin State Prison is teaching 18 inmates HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — How 18 inmates at California's notorious San Quentin prison learn to code — SAN QUENTIN, CA—It sounds almost like a parody of Silicon Valley: two wealthy San Francisco Bay Area tech veterans …

More: TechCrunch

Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:

Rocket Internet Q3: portfolio valued at €2.7B, up €74M from IPO, plans 10 new startups in 2015 — Rocket Internet says portfolio value increased by €74m after IPO, gives bullish outlook for next decade — Following its IPO last month, German e-commerce focused venture fund …

More: Wall Street Journal, Tech in Asia, Financial Times and VentureBeat

Tweets: @robinwauters, @ivospigel and @tech_eu

Thanks:@robinwauters

Michael J. Casey / Wall Street Journal:

Khosla Ventures, Reid Hoffman, others invest $21M in Blockstream to enable new distributed applications built on bitcoin's “blockchain” technology — Linked-In, Sun Microsystems Founders Lead Big Bet On Bitcoin Innovation — Billionaire entrepreneurs who helped lead LinkedIn Corp. …

More: LinkedIn Pulse. Tweets: @blockstream and @austinhill

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

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