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November 19, 2014, 7:20 AM

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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 …

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, The Verge, Medium, iMore, PandoDaily and Washington Post

Tweets: @mattdpearce, @mikeisaac and @semil

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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: Wired, Bloomberg View, Fortune, Upstart Business Journal, SlashGear, Channel EYE and International Business Times

Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

Ten good questions Travis Kalanick failed to address in his tweetstorm apology — Uber CEO Posts 13-Tweet Apology Without Answering a Single Question — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick just responded to privacy and ethics concerns about Emil Michael, after the top executive publicly suggested paying $1 million …

More: Guardian, USA Today, The Awl, PandoDaily, Washington Post, USA Today, Quartz, Computerworld, VatorNews, ITworld.com, Engadget, TechCrunch, Adweek and The Verge

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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, Business Insider, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, Gizmodo and The Next Web. Tweets: @caseynewton

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says exec's remarks on targeting the press “a departure from our values”

More: San Francisco magazine, Daring Fireball, Upstart Business Journal, Washington Post, VICE, The Next Web, NBC News, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, NBC Bay Area and The Huffington Post

Tweets: @travisk and @tomkrazit

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: The Next Web, Business Wire, Ars Technica, OS X Daily, Tech Times, Business Insider, Mashable, TUAW, TIME, The Mac Observer, Ubergizmo, iLounge, Cult of Mac, iMore, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacStories, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac and The Next Web. Tweets: @ohnorosco

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Seeds iOS 8.2 With WatchKit SDK for Apple Watch Apps to Developers — Apple today announced that its set of WatchKit development tools are now available for developers, allowing them to begin creating apps and software for the company's upcoming Apple Watch.

More: 9to5Mac, Phones Review, ReadWrite, Mercury News, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, InvestorPlace, Daring Fireball, The Register, CNET, Macworld, MacNN, TUAW, ZDNet, AppleInsider, Re/code, SlashGear, Gdgt Arena, 9to5Mac and iMore. Tweets: @pschiller

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

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

More: Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, The Next Web, O'Grady's PowerPage and MacDailyNews

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

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

More: BGR

Shirley Sun / Facebook:

Facebook launches standalone Groups app for iOS and Android — Introducing the Facebook Groups App — People use Facebook Groups every day to stay in touch with family, collaborate on projects, plan trips and offer support to friends. — Today, we're introducing a new Facebook Groups app …

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

With some 650M MAUs, Facebook gives Groups its own app with more control over notifications, no ads for now

More: BetaNews, GeekWire and 9to5Google

Yi Zhuang / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter search finally indexes all public tweets since 2006 — Building a complete Tweet index — Today, we are pleased to announce that Twitter now indexes every public Tweet since 2006. — Since that first simple Tweet over eight years ago, hundreds of billions of Tweets …

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. Tweets: @nacdl, @mikescarcella, @hannifakhoury, @patrickctoomey, @dangillmor and @justin_fenton

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: SiliconBeat, BGR, Re/code, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Register, Ars Technica, iClarified, TechnoBuffalo, iLounge and The Mac Observer. Tweets: @sudecker1

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, Fortune, TIME, CBC News, CTV News, Toronto Star, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times

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: TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal and VentureBeat

Cliff Edwards / Netflix:

Netflix to launch in Australia and New Zealand in March 2015 — World's Leading Internet Television Network to Offer Original Series, Movies, Documentaries, Stand-Up Comedy Specials and TV Shows for Low Monthly Price — Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX), the leading Internet movie and TV subscription service …

More: Digital Trends, TechCrunch, The Next Web, SlashGear, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, The Register, Lifehacker Australia, TechSpot, Gizmodo and Engadget. Tweets: @netflix

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Gruber says next year's iPhone may include a two-lens, DSLR quality back camera — Apple May Introduce ‘Biggest Camera Jump Ever’ in Next-Generation iPhone — Apple may introduce its “biggest camera jump ever” in the next-generation iPhone, according to Daring Fireball's John Gruber (via The Tech Block).

More: TechSpot, Phones Review, TechnoBuffalo, AppleInsider, Phandroid, VentureBeat, Business Insider and iDownloadBlog.com

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

Tweets: @ronwyden, @govgaryjohnson and @levie

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

U.K. Government Funds Free Online Courses Teaching Startup Skills — A tech industry-backed, U.K. government-funded initiative offering free online courses to those wanting to learn commercial digital business skills goes live today, aiming to upskill Brits to work for tech companies or even start their own startup.

More: Tech City News and The Next Web

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Indian phone manufacturer Micromax to put Cyanogen software on its upcoming low-cost devices — Cyanogen's next stop is India — The Android mod-maker inks a deal to come preinstalled on new Micromax phones — Cyanogen, the company that makes the popular Cyanogenmod Android Firmware …

More: SlashGear, Android Central and Android Police

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

500 Startups Launches $10M Mobile Collective Fund, Hires Ex-Dolphin Browser Exec Edith Yeung To Run It — “In the past we were 500 Startups. In the future we might be 500 VCs.” — That's Dave McClure, founding partner and Sith Lord behind global seed fund 500 Startups and his growing roster of investment partners.

More: The Next Web, PandoDaily and VentureBeat

Tweets: @markjsaldana and @semil

David Meyer / Gigaom:

UK to clear 700MHz spectrum for mobile broadband use by 2022 — As expected, the British telecommunications regulator Ofcom has decided to free up spectrum in the 700MHz for mobile broadband use. Already used for 4G/LTE in the U.S. and Asia, this spectrum is great for long-range deployments …

More: Engadget, The Next Web and Ofcom

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, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac and MacRumors

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google's mobile search results get ‘mobile-friendly’ label to show you which sites work best on your phone — Google today announced the debut of a new “mobile-friendly” label on its mobile search results page. The company says the change will be rolling out globally over the next few weeks, so don't fret if you don't see it yet.

More: Google Webmaster Central Blog, Digital Trends, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Land, PC World, Google Operating System, Search Engine Watch, Marketing Land, Domain Name Wire and Search Engine Land

Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:

Microsoft Fixes Critical Kerberos Flaw Under Attack With Out-of-Band Patch — Last week, Microsoft released 14 security bulletins as part of Patch Tuesday for November 2014. The updates contained four rated as critical, including a vulnerability that affects the Windows Secure Channel (SChannel) security package.

More: TechNet Blogs, Krebs on Security, Ars Technica, The Laws of Vulnerabilities, TrendLabs Security …, eWeek and WindowsITPro

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