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November 25, 2014, 11:35 AM

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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple reaches record breaking $700 billion market cap as stock surge continues  —  Shares of Apple reached another major financial milestone on Tuesday, crossing the $700 billion market capitalization threshold just after trading began on Wall Street.  —  With shares of AAPL trading at an all-time high …
More: Reuters, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg and 9to5MacTweets: @cnbc
Leon Spencer / ZDNet:
Global online population hits 3 billion: ITU  —  Summary: There are now more than 3 billion people online globally, with two-thirds of all people with internet access now living in the developing world, according to new research by the United Nations agency charged with improving the world's access to IT infrastructure.
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Uber removed blog post from data science team that examined link between prostitution and rides  —  Earlier today, Gina Neff, an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington and the School of Public Policy at Central European University in Budapest, noticed something missing from Uber's Data Blog.
More: Beyond Search and SlashGearTweets: @ginasueThanks:@obrien
Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:
Universal Picks Up Steve Jobs Movie  —  Danny Boyle is set to direct the feature, written by Aaron Sorkin  —  Less than a week after Sony Pictures put the high-profile Steve Jobs movie into turnaround, Universal Pictures has stepped up and adopted the project.
Charlie / GreatFire.org:
BBC and GreatFire.org partner to deliver uncensored information into China  —  We are delighted to announce that GreatFire.org is now delivering uncensored, Chinese-language information from the BBC to Chinese netizens behind the great firewall.  —  The BBC's Chinese language news website was blocked in China shortly after its launch.
More: BetaNews and GigaomTweets: @greatfirechina
Michael Mimoso / Threatpost:
Regin Cyberespionage Platform Also Spies on GSM Networks  —  Researchers have uncovered a complex espionage platform reminiscent of Duqu that has been used since at least 2008 not only to spy on and extract email and documents from government agencies, research institutions and banks …
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Mike Sall / Medium:
Medium open-sources Charted, a free data visualization tool  —  Introducing Charted  —  A new way to share data  —  A year ago, the Product Science team at Medium created the first version of Charted, an internal tool to help us easily share charts.  It has since become indispensable …
More: The Next Web and Gigaom
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
T-Mobile forced to stop hiding slow speeds from throttled customers  —  When T-Mobile US customers exceed their monthly data caps, they aren't cut off from the Internet entirely.  Instead, T-Mobile throttles their connections to 128Kbps or 64Kbps, depending on which plan they have, for the rest of the month.
Matthew Lynley / BuzzFeed:
Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, in apparent “DM fail”, expresses support for buying unnamed company  —  A Top Twitter Executive Just Had A Massive Direct Message Fail  —  It looks like Twitter's finance chief Anthony Noto thought he was messaging another Twitter executive about buying a company.

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