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Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Google Glass Will Expand Its Features Into Music — To sell Glass, its augmented-reality form of eyewear, Google has already tried to make it a fashion accessory and a must-have video device for any parent or sky diver. Now it is also presenting this $1,500 piece of wearable technology as a way to interact with music.

More: SiliconANGLE, Glass Almanac, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, The Next Web, SlashGear, Rolling Stone, Electronista, I4U News and The Verge

Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid:

Google Glass XE11 update supports Google Play Music if you sideload the APK

More: USA Today, Engadget, Gearburn, Android Central, Android Community, 9to5Google, AndroidGuys, Droid Life and Android Police

Larry Rulison / Times Union:

GlobalFoundries to make Apple chips in New York fab — Hello Malta. — GlobalFoundries is preparing to make chips for Apple's iPhone and iPad at its Fab 8 complex in Malta, according to a source close to the company. — Samsung Electronics, which currently makes the logic microprocessors used …

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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Don't Get Too Excited About GlobalFoundries and Apple — At Least, Not Just Yet — Don't get too excited about an intriguing story from the Albany Times Union saying that chip-manufacturing company GlobalFoundries may soon start turning out chips for Apple's iPhones and iPads at a factory in upstate New York.

More: 9to5Mac

Sam Byford / The Verge:

iPad mini with Retina display on sale now starting at $399 — Three weeks after its announcement, the iPad mini with Retina display is now available for purchase in the online Apple Store. The release follows that of the larger iPad Air earlier in the month; both tablets feature …

Digits:

Motorola Plans Low-Cost Phone; Sales of Moto X Disappoint — Google's Motorola unit is set to introduce a relatively low-cost phone Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter, amid weak sales and a price cut of its flagship high-end model. — Details of the new …

More: Ubergizmo, Wall Street Journal, Softpedia News, Android Beat, TechCrunch, Gearburn, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, CNET, AllThingsD, Inquirer, 9to5Google and GeekWire

Kyle VanHemert / Wired:

Look Inside Apple's Spaceship Headquarters With 24 All-New Pics — Office life will spill into a verdant landscape on both the inside and outside of the ring. Image: City of Cupertino — The project was helmed by the firm of star architect Norman Foster. Image: City of Cupertino

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacNN, Digits, TechnoBuffalo, Valleywag, TechCrunch, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo, creativebits™, The Verge, SlashGear, Laughing Squid, Pocket-lint, TUAW, Softpedia News and Macworld

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Kadhim Shubber / CoinDesk:

$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes — Bitcoin is surging in China, but the explosion in digital currency trading has been accompanied by possible fraud and theft. — GBL, a Chinese bitcoin trading platform that claimed to be based in Hong Kong …

More: SiliconANGLE, PandoDaily, The Register, Tech in Asia, Softpedia News, The Standard, ZDNet and SocialTimes

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won — ComScore research shows that while Apple suffered a PR disaster over maps, Google lost 23m iPhone users in the US — Apple's maps have turned out to be a hit with iPhone and iPad users in the US - despite the roasting …

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Netflix is now available on TiVo set-top boxes for Virgin Media subscribers in the UK — Virgin Media subscribers in the UK can now access the on-demand movie and TV streaming service Netflix from their TiVo set-top box, following a successful trial that kicked off a few months ago.

More: Inquirer, Engadget, SlashGear and Softpedia News

Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Finds Surprising Growth Market in Japan — Tech Company Gets Boost From Carriers' Price War, Local Anti-Samsung Bias … Apple Inc. is striking gold in an unlikely place: Japan. — In the past two years, Japan has emerged as Apple's fastest-growing region, far outpacing its home market …

More: AppleInsider, App Advice, SlashGear, AppleTell, BGR, Daring Fireball, TUAW, Ubergizmo, MacNN, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, iClarified, MacDailyNews and Patently Apple. Tweets: @iansherr

Bloomberg:

Malone's Liberty Global Said in Talks to Buy Intel's TV Service — John Malone's Liberty Global (LBTYA) Plc, the European cable operator, is in talks to acquire Intel Corp. (INTC)'s online pay-TV service under development, said three people with knowledge of the situation.

More: The Register, Engadget and CNET. Tweets: @jessicalessin. See also Mediagazer

Gabriela Vatu / Softpedia News:

Google Files for Patent of Neck Tattoo with Built-In Microphone — It's been proven numerous times over the years that Google is not always the creator of the most conventional products and the fact that it often has its eyes on the future is quite easy to notice.

More: Business Insider, bizjournals, Metro.co.uk, Mirror.co.uk, TIME, Computerworld and The Atlantic Online

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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Jessica Alba's Subscription Ecommerce Startup, The Honest Company, Closes $25M Round, Led By IVP — Jessica Alba's clean-living startup, The Honest Company - a subscription ecommerce service selling eco-friendly, non-toxic family-oriented products such as diapers, skin care and cleaning products …

More: VentureBeat, Venture Capital Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, PandoDaily, Fortune, WebProNews, Reuters, Fast Company and vcpost.com

Seth Rosenblatt / CNET:

Chrome 32 lets you easily find and close those noisy tabs — Tabs in Chrome 32 Beta will notify you via icons when they're streaming audio. — (Credit: Google) — If you've ever wondered which of your 200 browser tabs is making all that racket, the latest Chrome Beta can lend an ear.

More: BetaNews, Google Chrome Releases, Engadget, The Next Web, Softpedia News, The Register, 9to5Google, AllThingsD and Mashable

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Russ Pitts / Polygon:

The birth of Xbox Live … There was a dream that was a box. — Part sci-fi, part nostalgia, this box would unite people from around the world and provide a platform for entertainment that would drive the future. In young computer scientist J Allard's dream, this box would change the world.

David Gilbert / International Business Times:

International Space Station Infected With USB Stick Malware Carried on Board by Russian Astronauts — Renowned security expert Eugene Kaspersky reveals that the International Space Station was infected by a USB stick carried into space by a Russian astronaut.

More: SlashGear, Haaretz, TechWeekEurope UK, The Atlantic Wire, Motherboard, Gizmodo, Inquirer, The Register and Graham Cluley

Horace Dediu / asymco.com:

Average iOS user contributed about $48 to Apple's iTunes revenue in the last 12 months — What's an Active User worth? — Apple has sold 700 million iOS devices. Google claims one billion Android device activations. Microsoft has about 1.5 billion Windows users and Facebook about 1.19 billion.

More: Fortune

Paul Gagnon / DisplaySearch Blog:

Apple's Long-Rumored TV Ambitions on Hold Again? — According to sources in the TV supply chain, it appears that Apple's long-rumored TV plans, which were far from concrete anyway, have been put on hold again, possibly to be replaced by a rollout of wearable devices.

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Messaging App Line Now Brings In Nearly $100M A Quarter, But No Official Word On An IPO — Line, the messaging app that blew up in Japan over the past two-and-a-half years, is now bringing in nearly $100 million in revenue a quarter. — The app, which spun out of its parent company NHN earlier this year …

More: The Next Web, Pulse 2.0, Business Insider and 5by5 Master Audio Feed. Tweets: @monkbent. See also Mediagazer

Sinead Carew / Reuters:

T-Mobile US could raise almost $2 billion for spectrum purchases — (Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc announced on Monday a stock offering that could bring it almost $2 billion for spectrum purchases. — T-Mobile, the No. 4 U.S. mobile service provider, said it would sell 66.15 million common shares …

More: Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

Google reverses course, allows Nielsen to measure ad views on YouTube — Google Relents on YouTube Ad Measurement — Nielsen to Begin Tracking Viewership of Videos — For about two years, Google Inc. refused to let Nielsen Holdings place measurement tags on ads running on YouTube …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Email Productivity Startup Yesware Makes Its First Acquisition, Buys San Francisco-Based File-Sharing Service Attachments.me — Yesware, an email productivity startup for salespeople, which just this fall raised an additional $13.5 million in Series B funding, has made its first acquisition.

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