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October 21, 2015, 8:05 PM

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Matt Leske / YouTube Blog:

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 …

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.

More: Engadget, Android Police, CNET, The Next Web, Digital Trends, NPR, Fusion, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Seeking Alpha, 9to5Google, Tech Times, VentureBeat, TIME, BGR, Android Central and Slate. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: MobileSyrup.com, Marketing Land, Stereogum, MacStories, Android Central, gHacks Technology News, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks and Cult of Mac

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.

More: Droid Life, Android Authority, Forbes, SlashGear and TechCrunch. See also Mediagazer

Steven Tweedie / Business Insider:

Google takes on Spotify and Apple Music with new YouTube Music app

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.

More: The Next Web, iMore, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Mashable, iPhone Hacks and iPhone in Canada Blog

Roberto Baldwin / Engadget:

Twitter announces new Publish service and partnerships to improve curating and posting tweet collections, lets anyone join waitlist for its Curator tool — Twitter makes it easier for anyone to curate and post tweet collections — When Twitter launched Moments, it talked briefly …

More: The Twitter Blog, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Mashable, Marketing Land, Social Media Today and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Twitter Introduces Gnip Insights APIs To Help Brands Better Understand Audiences And Content

More: Marketing Land, VentureBeat, The Twitter Blog and The Next Web

TechCrunch:

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 …

More: MarketWatch, Computerworld, Wall Street Journal and ReadWrite. Tweets: @sidawson

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.

More: TechCrunch

Matt Weinberger / Business Insider:

Twitter buys Fastlane, a popular tool for building iPhone apps, and adds Android support — Twitter has acquired Fastlane, a set of tools that found a lot of popularity with iPhone developers as an easy way to constantly test and update their apps. — Twitter's Fabric is a set …

More: The Next Web and VentureBeat

Nate Swanner / The Next Web:

Twitter adds nine new SDKs to Fabric including Stripe, AWS, Optimizely, Nuance, SendGrid

Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:

Twitter's Digits login product now works with email addresses in addition to phone numbers

More: ProgrammableWeb.com, The Next Web, The Next Web and TechCrunch

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.

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple adds Find My Friends app to iCloud on the web

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Apple's iOS 9.1 Shuts Down The Pangu Hacking Team's Jailbreak

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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 …

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 …

More: Wired, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Forbes, Gizmodo, The Verge, ZDNet, Windows Blog, Yahoo, USA Today, AnandTech, Thurrott.com, PC Magazine, Tech Insider, Laptop Mag, GeekWire, Business Insider, TechCrunch and The Next Web

Brett Howse / AnandTech:

Surface Pro 4 review: best workhorse productivity tablet with its build quality, performance, and accessories, but expensive

More: ZDNet, Engadget, Ars Technica, Wired, TechCrunch, SlashGear, PCWorld, Yahoo Tech, CIO.com and The Verge

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 …

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?

More: Joe Belfiore, The Register, PCWorld, Business Insider, WinBeta, Windows Central, Business Insider, The Next Web, The Verge, Neowin, Pocketnow and GeekWire. Tweets: @alex

Chris Hall / Pocket-lint:

Fossil unveils Q Founder Android Wear watch coming late 2015 for $275; Q Grant watch, Q Reveler and Q Dreamer fitness trackers will be available Oct. 25 — Fossil details Q family of connected accessories, including Q Founder Android Wear watch — Fossil has finally shed some light …

More: Forbes, TechCrunch, CNET, Ausdroid, TechRadar.com, 9to5Google, Engadget, Phandroid, AndroidHeadlines.com and Android Police

Katherine Noyes / InfoWorld:

HP announces it will shut down its Helion public cloud on January 31, 2016 — HP's Helion Public Cloud will soon ride into the sunset — HP is doubling down on private and managed cloud capabilities instead, the company says — Earlier this year HP let slip that the public cloud …

More: Grounded in the Cloud, Business Insider, VentureBeat, The Register, Fortune and Seeking Alpha

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