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November 6, 2015, 2:40 PM

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Fortune:
Square sets IPO price range at $11-13 per share, at a valuation up to $4.19B, well below its last private round  —  Square sets IPO price range, would be valued below last private round  —  Payments company Square this morning filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission …
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
With a good physical keyboard and enhanced security, the Android-powered Priv is the first recommendable BlackBerry in years  —  BlackBerry Priv Review: BlackBerry May Win You Back With Android  —  It finally happened: a modern-looking BlackBerry with a modern operating system
Mike Prospero / Tom's Guide:
BlackBerry Priv review: most elegant BlackBerry design to date, BlackBerry default apps are decent, but display is too dim, performance lags competitors  —  BlackBerry Priv Review: A New Hope … BlackBerry wants to give you the best of both worlds.  But has the world already passed this brand by?
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
PageFair anti-ad-blocking service was hacked a week ago, temporarily pushing malware to visitors of over 500 sites including the Economist  —  A prominent ad-blocker-blocker served malware to Economist readers  —  One of the web's most prominent ad-blocking tools has been serving malware to Economist readers.
Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Toyota to set up new artificial intelligence research and development company in Silicon Valley, will invest $1B over 5 years  —  Toyota invests $1 billion in artificial intelligence in US  —  TOKYO (AP) — Toyota is investing $1 billion in a research company it's setting up in Silicon Valley …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Full text of Trans-Pacific Partnership released, gets criticized by Internet privacy and consumer groups for threatening digital rights  —  TPP Trade Agreement Slammed For Eroding Online Rights  —  Measures agreed to in an international trade treaty between Pacific Rim countries threaten …
Garett Sloane / Digiday:
Sources: Instagram is testing ads that use 3D Touch and Apple Pay  —  Instagram's testing new ads that drive sales  —  Instagram doesn't want to be just a platform for pretty brand photos.  It wants to prove it can drive sales, developing new ads that showcase a variety of product offerings …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Sweden's Anoto Buys Digital Pen Maker Livescribe For $15M  —  The writing is on the wall for more consolidation in the world of startups... both literally and figuratively.  Today Anoto, a digital writing company based out of Sweden, announced that it would acquire longtime partner Livescribe …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Famo.us lays off some of its staff after raising $31M and failing to create a business model around its open source Javascript rendering engine  —  $30M Later, Struggling JavaScript Platform Famo.us Pivots  —  Famo.us' 15 minutes of open source fame have come to an end.
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Amir Efrati / The Information:
Sources: Google seeking partners to co-develop chips to bring more uniformity and new features to Android phones, and better compete with Apple  —  With Apple in Mind, Google Seeks Android Chip Partners  —  Google recently talked with some microchip makers about developing chips based …
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
E-commerce startup Gumroad lays off most of its staff after failing to realize rapid growth, says it will stay in business  —  Layoffs Hit Gumroad As The Payments Startup Restructures  —  San Francisco startup Gumroad, which lets people sell products directly to consumers by way of quick and simple links …
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