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Apple says it will remove all 181 vaping-related apps from its App Store, after experts attribute a variety of lung injuries and fatalities to e-cigarettes — Amid growing health concerns over e-cigarettes, Apple will remove all 181 vaping-related apps from its mobile App Store this morning, Axios has learned.

Colin Lecher / The Verge:

Email: Sundar Pichai says Google is scaling back weekly all-hands TGIF meetings to once a month; meetings will focus only “on product and business strategy” — CEO announced changes to TGIF meeting in an email — Google's weekly town halls, internally known as “TGIF” meetings …

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Source: NIH and Google planned to launch a dataset of 100K chest X-rays in 2017, scrapped project days before launch, after finding personal info on some images — Fumbled project with NIH highlights potential pitfalls of Google's ambitions with sensitive health data

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Twitter bans political ads globally, to allow some “cause-based” ads with limited targeting and promotion of issue-related fact-based reporting from news orgs — - Twitter laid out the framework for its new policy on political ads, which bans certain advertisers and has stricter rules for issue ads.

More: The Verge, New York Times, Business Insider, Axios, Telegraph, BuzzFeed News, Politico, CNET, AdExchanger, Fortune, Adweek, onezero.medium.com, Gizmodo, Mashable, and Engadget

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Emily Stewart / Vox:

Twitter acknowledges that its new guidance on political and cause-based ads is essentially a rough policy outline with lots of details still to be worked out

More: The Guardian, Associated Press, and CNN

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Hulu to raise its Hulu + Live TV price by 22%, from $44.99/month to $54.99/month, for all subscribers starting on December 18 — Hulu is implementing its second price increase in less than a year for its Hulu With Live TV product — with the base package of 60-plus live channels increasing 22%, to $54.99 per month.

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Tucker Higgins / CNBC:

The Supreme Court says it will hear Google's appeal in the copyright lawsuit brought by Oracle over Java APIs — - The Supreme Court said on Friday that it will hear a dispute between tech giants Oracle and Google in a blockbuster case that could lead to billions of dollars in fines and shape copyright law in the internet era.

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Holger Hansen / Reuters:

Germany passed a law on Thursday that could force Apple to open up the iPhone's NFC chip to rival mobile payment platforms in the country — BERLIN (Reuters) - Apple said on Friday moves in Germany to force it to open up its Apple Pay mobile payments system to rivals could hurt data protection …

More: 9to5Mac, Quartz, VentureBeat, The Verge, MacRumors, DW.COM, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, iMore, Patently Apple, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, PaymentsSource, MSPoweruser, The Mac Observer, and iPhone in Canada Blog

Stephen Nellis / Reuters:

NUVIA, founded by three former Apple chip execs, raises $53M Series A from Dell and others to develop a new CPU for data center servers — (Reuters) - Three of Apple Inc's former top semiconductor executives in charge of iPhone chips have founded a startup to design processors for data centers …

More: 9to5Mac, SiliconANGLE, SemiAccurate, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, GlobeNewswire News Room, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, and FinSMEs

Steve Dent / Engadget:

In a Reddit AMA, Google demos Stadia, which is set to launch on Nov. 19 but without key features like Family Sharing, Buddy Passes, Stadia Connect, and more — In a run-up to the November 19th Stadia launch, Google did a Reddit AMA showing how game casting will work for the streaming service.

More: The Verge and Forbes. Tweets: @dhh

Jason Ronald / Xbox Wire:

Microsoft rolls out its November 2019 Xbox Update with support for Google Assistant in English, improved gamertags, text-based content filters, and more — November is here and that means friends, family, food and plenty of gaming in between. Thanks to your feedback …

More: Windows Central, 9to5Google, The Verge, Android Police, MSPoweruser, Pureinfotech, Engadget, Android Headlines, GameSpot, Thurrott, Neowin, SlashGear, OnMSFT.com, and Slashdot. Tweets: @harrisonhoffman. Thanks:@harrisonhoffman

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

TikTok says it has started allowing some users to add links to their profile bios and send their viewers to shopping sites — TikTok is beginning to dabble in social commerce. The short-form video app said it has started to allow some users to add links to e-commerce sites …

More: The Verge, Adweek, The Daily Dot, Tubefilter, Android Police, Business Insider, The Next Web, Engadget, Mashable, 9to5Mac, and Social Media Today. Tweets: @adweek

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The Information:

Sources: after exploring partnerships with banks in 2018 to offer an Amazon-branded checking account, Amazon scrapped those plans in their early stages — This week, Google confirmed that it will soon offer checking accounts to its users. But one of the company's biggest rivals—Amazon …

More: Seeking Alpha

TechCrunch:

Report finds toxic content on Giphy, including child abuse, depictions of rape, and imagery associated with white supremacy, despite its ban on illicit content — Certain hashtags and keywords revealed the illegal and banned content. — Image search engine Giphy bills itself as providing …

More: Fortune. Tweets: @ingridlunden

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Alex Sherman / CNBC:

Sources: John Legere has no plans to leave T-Mobile and take the CEO job at WeWork — - T-Mobile CEO John Legere isn't planning to take the CEO job at WeWork according to people familiar with the matter. — WeWork, which is being taken over by SoftBank, is considering a number of people for the CEO role.

More: The Verge, Business Insider, CNET, Bloomberg, TmoNews, and Seeking Alpha

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