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November 19, 2014, 12:35 PM

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BuzzFeed:

Uber investigating its New York general manager, Josh Mohrer, for tracking BuzzFeed journalist's location without her consent — “God View:” Uber Investigates Its Top New York Executive For Privacy Violations — In the wake of a BuzzFeed News story, the transit company is looking …

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Uber risks turning off investors, employees, and the public with its aggressive culture — Uber, a Start-Up Going So Fast It Could Miss a Turn — In just four years of operation, Uber has ignited a new global ride-sharing industry with the promise of transforming urban transportation …

More: John Hodgman, Washington Post, The Hill, Wired, Wall Street Journal, Daring Fireball, The Baffler, Fortune, WebProNews, Upstart Business Journal, TechCrunch, Street Fight, BuzzFeed, Channel EYE, International Business Times, CIO.com and VICE. See also Mediagazer

Maya Kosoff / Business Insider:

Uber investor Ashton Kutcher defends digging into “shady” journalists' private lives

More: BuzzFeed. Tweets: @aplusk, @aplusk, @aplusk, @paulcarr, @paulcarr, @paulcarr, @paulcarr, @paulcarr, @paulcarr, @pandodaily, @llsethj, @stevekovach, @llsethj, @patrickc, @profjeffjarvis, @stevekovach, @aplusk, @aplusk, @aplusk, @aplusk, @aplusk, @aplusk, @aplusk, @aplusk, @mikeisaac, @danprimack and @chris_ciaccia

Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

Ten good questions Travis Kalanick failed to address in his tweetstorm apology

More: Washington Post, USA Today and USA Today. See also Mediagazer

Nancy Scola / Washington Post:

Uber updates privacy policy, reiterating it will only use rider data for “legitimate business purposes”, says it is investigating recent BuzzFeed claims

More: Uber Blog, BuzzFeed, Mashable and Business Insider. Tweets: @caseynewton

Ross Miller / The Verge:

Apple Watch will feature info-rich “Long Look” notifications if wearer keeps wrist raised, and static, non-interactive maps — 11 things we just learned about how the Apple Watch works — As of today, developers can now make apps for Apple Watch.

More: Business Insider, Associated Press, The Next Web, MacDailyNews, Wearable Tech Insider, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Mac, PadGadget, OS X Daily, TechSpot, Business Wire and Mashable. Tweets: @ohnorosco

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Seeds iOS 8.2 With WatchKit SDK for Apple Watch Apps to Developers

More: Digital Trends, Techvibes Global News, TIME, Wearable World News, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, Phones Review, ReadWrite, Ars Technica and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @pschiller

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple WatchKit third-party apps require a connected iPhone to function, ‘fully native’ apps coming later in 2015

More: MacDailyNews, BGR, Business Insider and Gotta Be Mobile

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Watch Screen Resolutions: 312 x 390 for 42mm Version, 272 x 340 for 38mm Version

More: BGR

Ryan Whitwam / Android Police:

Android Lollipop's Trusted Places removes need to unlock device in select geographical areas — Google Play Services Update Adds Trusted Places Feature To Lollipop's Smart Lock — Smart Lock in Lollipop encompasses both trusted face and trusted devices, but a new option is joining the party—trusted places.

More: Gizmodo, BGR, APKMirror, PC World, Droid Life, The Verge, Electronista, Computerworld, Liliputing, Android Beat and Gizmodo

Dennis Fisher / Threatpost:

Google Removes SSLv3 Fallback Support From Chrome — Google has released Chrome 39, fixing 42 security vulnerabilities and removing support for the fallback to SSLv3, the component that was the target of the POODLE attack revealed last month. — When the POODLE attack was disclosed …

More: Google Chrome Releases, Computerworld, ZDNet, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Google, iDownloadBlog.com, MacNN, iMore, MacRumors and Lifehacker

Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun:

Prosecutors withdraw key evidence in robbery case to avoid revealing how police used phone tracking technology — Judge threatens detective with contempt for declining to reveal cellphone tracking methods — Baltimore prosecutors withdrew key evidence in a robbery case Monday rather …

More: Ars Technica and Blog of Rights. Tweets: @justin_fenton, @patrickctoomey, @nacdl, @mikescarcella, @hannifakhoury and @dangillmor

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Kik Messenger Takes $38 Million in Funding, Buys GIF Startup Relay — Messaging app Kik has raised $38.3 million in new funding and acquired Relay, a messaging network focused on sending and receiving GIFs. — The round was led by Valiant Capital Partners, and included new investors Millennium Technology …

More: CNET, Techvibes Global News, Kik Messenger, TechCrunch, BetaKit and Wall Street Journal

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple's iPhone 6 Plus & iPad Air 2 lose out to Samsung & Surface in detailed color accuracy analysis — Following its detailed reports on displays used in the new iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, today DisplayMate published a scientific analysis of color accuracy for the six best mobile displays it's tested this year.

More: DisplayMate, BetaNews, PC World, Wired, CNET, The Inquisitr News, O'Grady's PowerPage and Gizmodo

Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg:

Toronto Asks Court to Shut Down Uber's Operations — Toronto is asking a court to order the mobile car-booking service Uber Technologies Inc. to shut down in North America's fourth-largest city. — Uber has been operating in Toronto since 2012 without a proper license …

More: Toronto, Globe and Mail, TIME, CBC News, Fortune, CTV News and Toronto Star

Bloomberg:

Apple told to pay $23.6M for infringing pager technology patents from the 1990s — Apple Told to Pay $23.6 Million Over Pager Technology — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was told to pay a Texas company $23.6 million after a jury found its iPhone and other devices used pager technology from the 1990s without permission.

More: PC Magazine, Inquirer, 5by5 Master Audio Feed, AppleInsider, Re/code, Cult of Mac and The Register

Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge:

Microsoft Intros Docker Command Line Interface for Windows — Microsoft launched a command line interface for Docker that runs on Windows. Until now, users could only manage Docker containers using a Linux machine or a virtualized Docker environment on a Windows machine.

More: Microsoft Azure Blog, /home/alp, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Gigaom, Virtualization Review and WindowsITPro

Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:

Big numbers for Prezi: 50 million users, 160 million presentations created and $57m in fresh funding — It's a big day for Prezi, the Hungarian-American company behind the nifty cloud-based presentation platform with the same name. — At the Slush conference in Helsinki, Finland …

More: bizjournals, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog and Webrazzi

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Amazon's $39 Fire TV Stick starts shipping today, but new orders won't arrive before January 15 — As expected, Amazon today started shipping its $39 Fire TV Stick to fill preorders. Yet if you preordered the streaming device in the last few days or want to order it now, don't expect to see it before January 15, 2015.

More: The Next Web, Amazon.com, Android Police, Engadget, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Android Central, SlashGear and WebProNews

Erin Kelly / USA Today:

Senate effectively kills USA Freedom Act, a bill that proposed an end to NSA phone metadata collection — NSA spying bill stalls in Senate vote — WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday failed to get the 60 votes needed to advance a bill that would stop the National Security Agency …

More: Ars Technica, New York Times, The Hill, Guardian, The Verge, Reuters, The Intercept, GeekWire, Bloomberg, NBC News, ZDNet, The Huffington Post and Senator Wyden's Press Feed

Tweets: @ronwyden, @govgaryjohnson and @levie

Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land:

Google News Displaying “Suggested For You” Stories Customized To Match Your Interests — Google News founder Krishna Bharat used his Google+ account to announce a new “Suggested for you” feature in Google News. — According to his post, Google News will now include a “Suggested for you” …

More: The Next Web, Krishna Bharat and Search Engine Roundtable

Joab Jackson / PC World:

Facebook's Flow could help JavaScript programmers spot elusive bugs — Easing what has traditionally been a difficult programming task, Facebook has released as open source a debugging tool for JavaScript, called Flow, designed to highlight problems caused by the misuse of data types.

More: Facebook Code, InfoQ and AllFacebook

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

BitTorrent plans mobile app for sending large files, unveils Sync 2.0 with $40/year pro tier — BitTorrent unveils Sync 2.0 and three new paid products coming in 2015, including Pro version for $39.99/year — BitTorrent today outlined the company's plans for its file synchronization tool Sync.

More: TechCrunch, The Official BitTorrent Blog, Gigaom and The Next Web

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Jolla Crowdfunds $380K+ To Build An iPad Alternative — Update: Well that was very fast indeed. Jolla's Indiegogo campaign to build an open source iPad alternative — taking its Sailfish OS onto the tablet form factor — has passed its initial funding target of $380,000 with around 2,450 backers putting in cash.

More: The Verge, The Next Web, Engadget, ZDNet, BetaNews, Reuters, Electronista, Technology Personalized, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, CNET and Ubergizmo. Thanks:@riptari

Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:

PayPal unveils Pebble app for notifications, watch-only payments at stores accepting PayPal — PayPal challenges Apple Pay with an app for the Pebble smartwatch — PayPal's mobile payments app is now available for the Pebble smartwatch, the company announced in a blog post today.

More: PayPal Forward, Computerworld, TechSpot, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo and SlashGear

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:

Restaurant Discovery Service Zomato Raises Further $60M — Zomato, the restaurant search and discovery service, has closed a further $60 million in funding, giving the company a post-money valuation of $660 million. Investment comes from India's Vy Capital, and existing backers Info Edge, and Sequoia Capital.

More: MediaNama, Quartz, The Economic Times, The Indian Express, VCCircle, The Hindu, Firstbiz and Trakin' the india …. Tweets: @jonrussell. Thanks:@sohear

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Bigcommerce Gets $50 Million to Set Up Online Shops for Small Businesses Worldwide — Bigcommerce, a software service that helps small and mid-sized businesses set up online shops, has taken on a new $50 million investment, led by SoftBank Capital, as it pursues its goal of becoming the dominant …

More: Tech in Asia, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and PE Hub Blog

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