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YouTube introduces YouTube Red, which combines ad-free viewing and Google Play Music subscription — Meet YouTube Red, the ultimate YouTube experience — For years, YouTube's fans have been telling us they want more—more choice when watching their favorite content …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Inside YouTube's new $10 per month subscription service YouTube Red, which removes ads, allows offline viewing, more, available October 28 in US, soon globally — Red Dawn — A family is gathered around the dinner table: Dad and the kids have spaghetti on their plates, Mom is standing, serving spoon in hand.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
YouTube confirms any partner creator who earns cut of ad revenue but does not agree to YouTube Red revenue share deal will have videos hidden — YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don't Sign Its Red Subscription Deal — YouTube made its top video creators an offer … | Susanne Daniels / YouTube Blog: |
YouTube announces exclusive original content for YouTube Red from popular figures including PewDiePie — Introducing YouTube Red Original Series and Movies from your favorite stars — Last year, we announced an initiative to invest in the creativity of our top YouTube stars.
| Todd Sherman / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter Polls start rolling out to everyone, remain live for 24 hours, votes remain private — Introducing Twitter Polls — We're excited to share that in the coming days, everyone will be able to create polls on Twitter. And, with just a couple of taps, people can weigh in on all the topics they care about.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Twitter previews redesigned Twitter for Mac client, to launch in the coming months — Twitter Revamps Twitter For Mac Desktop App — Today at Twitter Flight, Twitter's developer conference, the company announced that it had revamped and updated the Twitter for Mac client.
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Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes To Developers, Says He Wants To “Reset” Relations — Twitter's epic bust up with developers several years ago was one of the bigger bumps in the company's rocky history, so now, as the social media company is working to reboot the business under new CEO Jack Dorsey … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Twitter launches a tweet composer to show tweet previews inside other apps — Twitter today announced the release of a new tweet composer for its TwitterKit package of mobile app development tools. The tool will allow mobile app developers to show users previews of tweets they write from within third-party apps.
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| Lauren Pollock / Wall Street Journal: |
Western Digital to Buy SanDisk for $19 Billion — Western Digital is facing challenges to its core hard-disk-drive businesses from flash and solid-state drives — Western Digital Corp. agreed to buy SanDisk Corp. for about $19 billion in cash and stock, a deal that positions the company …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Surface Book review: really does replace your laptop, great screen, keyboard, and trackpad, but can get very expensive — Surface Book review: The hybrid that really does replace your laptop — It ain't cheap, but it is pretty. — This is the machine that I've wanted Microsoft … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 9.1, bringing Apple News to UK, Live Photos improvements, new emoji — Apple Releases iOS 9.1 With New Emoji, Live Photos Improvements — Apple today released iOS 9.1 to the public, marking the first major update to the iOS 9 operating system that launched in September.
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Apple, Dropbox, Yelp, reddit, Twitter, Wikimedia, join Google, Facebook, and Yahoo in voicing opposition to current CISA proposal days before vote — Apple says it's against a key cybersecurity bill, days before a crucial vote — Apple said Tuesday that it opposes a controversial cybersecurity bill that …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Windows veteran Joe Belfiore taking one year off to spend time with family, will return to role after year out — Microsoft Windows veteran Joe Belfiore takes a year leave-of-absence — Joe Belfiore, one of Microsoft's key lieutenants on Windows, is taking a year's break. What gives?
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| Paul Lamkin / Forbes: |
Fossil unveils Q line of four Android Wear devices ranging from $125 to $275, available October 25 — Fossil Q Connected Wearables Launched - New Android Wear Device Incoming — Fossil is the latest brand to jump aboard with Google's smartwatch platform.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Wikileaks publishes documents from CIA director John Brennan's personal email account — Wikileaks has published data from CIA director John Brennan's private email account, in a release the group is calling The CIA Files. The documents include a form provided for background investigation …
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| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Shopping Insights tool offers retailers product search data from over 16K US cities — Google Discloses More Search Data to Woo Retailers — Shopping Insights tool shows products searched for in more than 16,000 U.S. cities — Google is offering retailers an unusual peek …
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