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Reuters:

Facebook plotting first steps in healthcare: support communities for ailments and preventative care apps — Exclusive: Facebook plots first steps into healthcare — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc already knows who your friends are and the kind of things that grab your attention.

More: Macworld, AllFacebook, Washington Post, PC Magazine, PandoDaily, CNET, Consumerist, The Verge, BetaBoston, Gizmodo UK, Engadget, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, Wired.co.uk, WebProNews, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Business Insider and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @zimbalist

Jayadevan PK / The Economic Times:

Google is developing a WhatsApp-like standalone messaging app likely to launch in 2015, targeting India and other emerging markets — Google planning to launch own mobile messaging app similar to WhatsApp — BANGALORE: After losing WhatsApp to Facebook in a multibillion dollar acquisition bid …

More: Fox News, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, Reuters, Seeking Alpha, Gizmodo UK, Ubergizmo, bgr.in, Tech Times and Neowin

Tweets: @joshconstine and @timesofindia

Thanks:@therealjpk

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Apple Asks the Music Labels for a Price Cut on Streaming Subscriptions — There are lots of music subscription services that let people listen to all the songs they want for $10 a month. — Apple thinks that price is too high. — Sources say Apple is talking to the big music labels …

Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:

Leonardo DiCaprio Exits Steve Jobs Biopic as Contenders Line Up — Instead of making the untitled project after shooting ‘The Revenant,’ the actor has removed himself from the biopic altogether — Leonardo DiCaprio will not be tackling the role of Steve Jobs.

More: Business Insider, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, Guardian, 9to5Mac, WebProNews, MacRumors, AppleInsider and Cult of Mac

New York Times:

JPMorgan says data breach affected 76M households, 7M small businesses — Cyberattack Against JPMorgan Chase Affects 76 Million Households — A cyberattack this summer on JPMorgan Chase compromised the accounts of 76 million households and seven million small businesses …

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Security researchers publicly release code to Github for “practically unpatchable” exploit BadUSB — The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose — It's been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room …

More: GitHub, PC World, The Register, ReadWrite, The Mac Observer, The Tech Report, Gizmodo, Mashable, TechSpot, The Verge, Business Insider, SecurityWeek, MacDailyNews, Neowin, Help Net Security, Engadget, SlashGear, SC Magazine and Electronista. Tweets: @mikebutcher

Wall Street Journal:

Google's Projects Lab Developing Screens That Can Connect to Form a Big Seamless Image — Google's Projects Lab Developing Screens That Can Plug Together to Form a Giant TV — Google Inc. is building self-driving cars and balloons to beam Internet service from the sky. Now it also wants to make giant TVs.

More: Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Business Insider, SlashGear and TIME

Logan Whiteside / CNNMoney.com:

Schmidt: Google's systems “far more secure and encrypted than anyone else, including Apple” — Google: Tim Cook is wrong about us — Apple got it wrong — Google is the safest place on the Web, the search giant's chairman says. — “We have always been the leader in security and encryption …

More: CNET, Business Insider, Inquirer, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Washington Post, The Register, Electronista, Beyond Search, DISPLAYBLOG and Daring Fireball

Jim Travers / Consumer Reports Online:

Apple's CarPlay reviewed on Pioneer aftermarket receiver: simple menus, easy navigation, and excellent Siri voice command integration — Installing Apple CarPlay and taking it for spin — Pioneer aftermarket unit is first with iPhone interface — Apple iOS fans anxiously awaiting CarPlay can stop holding their breath.

More: EFTM and MacRumors

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

EU Commission clears Facebook's $19 billion bid for WhatsApp — (Reuters) - European Union antitrust regulators approved on Friday a $19 billion offer by Facebook, the world's most popular social network, for mobile messaging startup WhatsApp. — The landmark deal is the largest …

Yoni Heisler / TUAW:

An in-depth look at Apple Pay, and why it could be the safest way to make a credit card payment — Apple Pay: An in-depth look at what's behind the secure payment system — With Apple Pay slated to go live later this month, one can soon expect to see an avalanche of fear mongering from pundits who …

More: iMore, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog and Starpoint Blog. Tweets: @briantong. Thanks:@superpixels

Owen Thomas / ReadWrite:

Apple's Health app is useless, dependent on other apps to gather data — Apple's Health App Is An Embarrassment — ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self. — You know those super-awkward “before” shots with a fat guy holding …

More: FierceMobileIT News, VentureBeat, blog.human.co and Medium

Tweets: @joannastern, @danmunro and @owenthomas

William Maclean / Reuters:

Dubai detectives to get Google Glass with facial recognition tech developed by local police — Dubai detectives to get Google Glass to fight crime — (Reuters) - Dubai police plan to issue detectives with Google Glass hands-free eyewear to help them fight crime using facial recognition technology …

More: PC World, Glass Almanac, The Daily Dot and 9to5Google. Tweets: @lucymarcus

Reuters:

HTC third quarter profit beats estimates as cost cuts offset weak sales — (Reuters) - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp swung to better-than-expected profit in the third quarter from a heavy loss a year earlier, as cost cuts helped it offset the impact of still-sluggish sales.

More: CNET, ZDNet, Gigaom, Asia Stocks to Watch, PhoneDog.com, BGR, 9to5Google, Bloomberg, AndroidHeadlines.com and Wall Street Journal

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

New data suggests FBI may be lying about how it located Silk Road's server and IP address — Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes in FBI's Story — New court documents released this week by the U.S. government in its case against the alleged ringleader of the Silk Road online black market …

More: Errata Security

Steven Russolillo / Wall Street Journal:

GoPro stock falls as much as 14% as founder gifts 5.8M shares to new charity, sidesteps IPO lockup rule — GoPro's Lockup Loophole Spooks Investors — GoPro Inc. found a way to maneuver around its lockup restriction, a development that spooked investors and sent the high-flying stock down as much as 14% on Thursday.

More: Bloomberg, Investor Relations, Business Insider, Reuters, CNBC, Fortune and USA Today

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iOS 8 Translator Keyboard Introduces Easy Access Language Translation Capabilities — With iOS 8 bringing support for system wide third-party keyboards for the first time, developers have been coming up with creative ways to introduce new functionality to the keyboard, beyond simply making it quicker to type.

More: BGR, TechCrunch and iDownloadBlog.com

Bloomberg:

France's Iliad Said to Plan Bid for Bigger T-Mobile Stake — Iliad SA (ILD) is planning to bid for a bigger stake in Deutsche Telekom AG's U.S. unit than it sought in July, as the French telecom carrier approaches a self-imposed deadline to reach a deal, people familiar with the matter said.

More: Reuters, FierceMobileIT News, TmoNews, GeekWire, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, GeekWire, TheStreet.com, Reuters, Wireless Week, SlashGear, Windows Phone Central and CNET

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Bing: No Plans To Give Ranking Boost For HTTPS — At Search Marketing Expo, Bing's Vincent Wehren, the Lead Program Manager for Bing Webmaster Tools, said they have no plans on ever giving a ranking boost to websites that switch to HTTPS. — In August, Google began giving sites that use HTTPS …

More: PC World and Search Engine Roundtable

ZDNet:

Samsung to start producing Apple's 14nm A9 processors by year end — Samsung expects sales boost from Apple chip deal — Summary: Samsung's chip boss said supplying its 14-nanometre FinFet chips to Apple will boost its financials greatly, reports ZDNet Korea's Cho Mu-hyun.

More: Gearburn, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, DailyTech and MacRumors

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Flipboard for Windows Phone 8 is finally here — At last, Flipboard has an app for Windows Phone 8. Nokia said a version of the magazine-inspired reading app would come to its platform over a year ago, and users have been waiting patiently ever since. — Now, it's finally here.

More: Inside Flipboard, TechnoBuffalo, Digital Trends, Blogging Windows, Engadget, Conversations, WinBeta and PC World

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