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December 3, 2015, 2:40 PM
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Yahoo revamps Messenger with group messaging, ability to unsend and like messages, send GIFs, and more, now available on iOS, Android, and the Web  —  Yahoo finally relaunches Messenger as an app aimed at families and groups  —  When Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo in 2012 …
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
KGI: 4-inch iPhone resembling iPhone 5S with A9 chip, curved glass edges, Apple Pay, and more, to launch early 2016  —  New A9-Based 4-Inch iPhone Expected to Launch Early 2016 With Apple Pay and Colorful Metal Casing  —  KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a research note corroborating rumors …
Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg Business:
Sources: Uber looking to raise up to $2.1B in round valuing company at $62.5B with investments from Tiger Global, T. Rowe Price, others  —  Uber Raises Funding at $62.5 Billion Valuation  —  The ride-hailing company is said to seek $2.1 billion in a new funding round.
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple's Swift programming language is now open source  —  As promised earlier in the year, Apple's Swift team has now posted source code for the Swift compiler and standard library functions and objects.  Open-sourcing Swift is a big win for the developer community as it means Swift …
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Uber unveils SPOT, a LED color-coded lighting system that helps passengers and drivers find one another easily, available in Seattle only for now  —  Uber color coding experiment promises smoother pickups  —  If you've ever used a ridesharing service, you've probably had that moment where you had to guess which car was your ride.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook expanding Live Video to all users starting with small selection of US iOS users, rolls out photo and video collages on iPhone, Android coming in 2016  —  Facebook begins testing live video streaming for all users  —  Four months after introducing live video streaming for celebrities …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: YouTube seeks streaming rights for TV shows and movies to support its new subscription service Red  —  YouTube Seeks Streaming Rights to TV Shows, Movies  —  Efforts come as YouTube looks to bolster $9.99-a-month subscription service called Red  —  YouTube is seeking streaming rights …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google adds two mobile ad formats: Trial Run ads that let users try apps for a minute without downloading and Interactive Interstitial swipeable ads  —  Google Brings Its App Streaming Technology To Mobile Ads  —  Last month, Google introduced a new way for web searchers to find the information they want …
Moxie Marlinspike / Open Whisper Systems:
Open Whisper Systems releases Signal Desktop in beta, available through Chrome Web Store, links to Android devices only for now  —  Signal Desktop  —  Today we're making the Signal Desktop beta available.  Signal Desktop brings the trusted private messaging experience of Signal to the desktop …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
BlueStacks hits over 109M downloads, 1B apps used per month, now supports multiple simultaneous Android apps on Windows  —  BlueStacks hits a billion apps used per month and launches new mobile platform  —  In 2011, BlueStacks was a small company when it debuted its virtualization platform …
More: The Verge and iMore.  Thanks:@akanksha1105
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
CloudFlare rolls out support for faster HTTP/2 protocol to all users in effort to spur wider adoption  —  A major internet backbone company is about to make a lot of websites load much faster  —  In February, web engineers released a way to move information over the web.
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
Vimeo to roll out 4K video streaming on its website as well as Android, iOS, Amazon TV, and Roku apps  —  Vimeo announces 4K video streaming for all  —  Over the next several weeks, Vimeo will roll out 4K video streaming to all users.  —  The update will apply to Vimeo's website …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Facebook adds Buy Tickets button which lets users purchase concert tickets from small group of venues, artists, and promoters without leaving Facebook  —  In Latest Commerce Move, Facebook Brings Concert Ticketing To Its Platform  —  Facebook now makes some concert tickets available for purchase directly within its walls.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg Business:
Steve Ballmer: Microsoft should disclose profit margins and sales for its cloud and hardware businesses, not just the run rate  —  Microsoft Should Disclose Cloud Revenue, Margins, Ballmer Says  —  Former CEO says the company should provide hardware metrics  —  Ballmer comments at Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
CalMatters, a nonprofit focused on CA politics and policy, acquires tech news nonprofit The Markup; CalMatters has ~$12.5M in funding and The Markup has $5M

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Essence magazine's parent, Sundial Media Group, agrees to buy Refinery29 from Vice Media and names former Vice COO Cory Haik as CEO of Refinery29

New York Times:
Sources: Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo discussed a joint all-cash offer for Paramount, which is still in an exclusive negotiation window with Skydance

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Amir Efrati / The Information:
Sources: Andy Rubin has tried to recruit personnel to help build a new Android phone company
Brandon Chester / AnandTech:
Samsung announces new A5, A7 smartphones with fingerprint readers and OIS cameras, and the cheaper A3; available in China first later this month
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: potential bidders for a Yahoo sale include Verizon, IAC/InterActive, with News Corp and Time Inc. likely interested in pieces of Yahoo
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