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October 7, 2014, 11:55 AM

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Chris Hamby / BuzzFeed:

DOJ in court filing asserts a DEA agent had the right to impersonate a woman on Facebook without her consent — Government Set Up A Fake Facebook Page In This Woman's Name — The Justice Department is claiming, in a little-noticed court filing, that a federal agent had the right …

More: Techdirt, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine and Gizmodo

Tweets: @anildash, @buzzfeedben, @digiphile and @dangillmor

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iOS 8 Adoption Stagnates Just Two and a Half Weeks After Launch — After almost three weeks of availability, Apple's iOS 8 operating system is now installed on 47 percent of devices, according to new numbers posted on Apple's App Store support page for developers.

Dennis Fisher / Threatpost:

Insider breach at AT&T compromises Social Security and drivers' license numbers; company offers credit monitoring to those affected — AT&T Hit By Insider Breach — AT&T is warning consumers about a data breach involving an insider who illegally accessed the personal information of an unspecified number of users.

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

In addition to news sites, Google's “In The News” box now includes Reddit, blog posts, social media, etc. — Google's “In The News” Box Now Lists More Than Traditional News Sites — Google has confirmed that new “In The News” box appearing in some of its search results …

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, The Next Web, 9to5Google, WebProNews and Search Engine Roundtable. See also Mediagazer

Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom:

Docker acquires testing-centric startup Koality as it continues to build out its paid services — Fresh off a recent $40 million funding round, cloud darling Docker just bought a small startup that the company feels fits in nicely with its focus on making application development easier with containers.

More: TechCrunch, Forbes, The Register, VentureBeat and Apprenda

Sydney Ember / New York Times:

Blockchain raises $30M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, has 2.3M consumer wallets — Blockchain Is Latest Bitcoin Start-Up to Lure Big Investment — The bets that Silicon Valley is placing on Bitcoin are getting bigger. — Even though concerns remain about the digital currency's staying power …

More: Blockchain Blog, CoinDesk, TechCrunch and CryptoCoinsNews. Tweets: @semil

Colin Neagle / Network World:

Secret ad beacon network uncovered, shut down in New York City — For almost a year, a company called Titan has operated a network of advertising beacons, devices that are capable of identifying nearby smartphones and which are often used to push advertisements and information to them …

More: BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed, Marketing Land, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, BGR, Digital Trends, Gothamist, Mashable, Gawker, Electronista, The Intercept, Associated Press, Light Reading, New York Magazine and Business Insider. Tweets: @timcohn

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Nvidia launches GeForce GTX 980M and 970M Maxwell-based laptop GPUs, says they provide twice the performance per watt of previous generation — Nvidia's Maxwell graphics chips for laptops can beat some powerful gaming desktops — Computer gaming is about to take a big leap forward.

More: Laptop Mag, PC World, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, NVIDIA, ExtremeTech, PC Magazine, AnandTech and SlashGear

Loek Essers / PC World:

European Commission suspects Amazon has received illegal state aid — Amazon.com may have received illegal state aid from tax authorities in Luxembourg, where the company has a subsidiary that records most of its European profit, according to the European Commission.

More: EU Press Room, VentureBeat, Financial Times, ZDNet, CNET, Inquirer, Reuters, Gigaom, New York Times, Gizmodo, internetretailer.com, Electronista, Associated Press, The Verge, The Next Web, The Register, Agence France-Presse and ITworld.com

Tim Fernholz / Quartz:

Despite huge investments by VCs in bitcoin startups, transaction volumes haven't surged in the last year — Falling prices aren't the real reason to worry about bitcoin — People are starting to notice: The bad boy of the digital currency world is losing its mojo.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Opens Its Mobile Ad “Audience Network” To All Advertisers And Apps — After announcing its mobile ad network at f8 in April, Facebook today officially launched “Audience Network” and started letting any advertiser buy and any third-party app host ads powered by its targeting data.

More: Facebook Developers, Inside Facebook, Facebook, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, CNET, AdExchanger, VentureBeat, PC World and AdAge

Steve Dent / Engadget:

Microsoft's Project Spark game creator comes to Xbox One and PC — If you enjoy the creative part of building games but not so much the coding, Microsoft's Project Spark is now available for Xbox One and PC (Windows 8.1 only). That marks the end of a six month beta period that saw …

More: Xbox Wire, The Verge, Electronista, VentureBeat, SlashGear, The Official Microsoft Blog, Ubergizmo and WinBeta

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

PayPal is at a disadvantage because it focused on peer-to-peer payments, not merchant-based transactions — PayPal's Incentive Problem — Last week eBay announced that PayPal would be spun out into a separate company, fixing two big problems for PayPal:

Tweets: @stevesi, @stratechery and @caseynewton

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Final price of WhatsApp for Facebook is $22B, up $3B due to increase in Facebook share price — Facebook's WhatsApp acquisition now has price tag of $22 billion — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) closed its acquisition of mobile messaging service WhatsApp on Monday …

More: bizjournals, PC Magazine, TechSpot and Tech Times. Tweets: @mathewi

Stephen Lawson / PC World:

VCE rolls out an all-in-one system with EMC's all-flash XtremIO array — VCE is expanding its line of all-in-one cloud systems, adding one with all-flash storage and offering more options for enterprises that want an easier path to the cloud. — The company, formed by Cisco and EMC …

More: SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, ServerWatch.com and Data Center Knowledge

Tomasz Tunguz:

An analysis of CrunchBase data suggests raising a second seed round won't hurt your odds of raising a Series A — Second Seed Rounds: How They Impact a Startup's Ability to Raise a Series A — The market for startups raising capital has changed dramatically over the past few years.

More: Both Sides of the Table. Tweets: @pmarca, @pmarca, @startupljackson, @pmarca and @joshconstine

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India — Just ahead of its Q3 earnings, Yahoo is laying people off in its international business. Specifically, it is downsizing its software development center in Bangalore, India. We understand that 400 people, mainly working in product engineering, have been affected.

More: NextBigWhat and MediaNama

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Sony's new Internet pay-TV service to have 100 channels, may cost between $60-$80/month — Sony sets high price bar for Web TV — Sony's upcoming Internet-delivered TV service will carry 100 channels and a surprisingly high price tag of as much as $80 a month, The Post has learned.

More: PC World, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, Digital Trends, FierceOnlineVideo News, FierceCable, Gigaom, Consumerist and DSLreports. See also Mediagazer

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Data-saving Opera Mini browser to land on Samsung Gear S watch — While Tizen's smartphone future remains foggy, it's slowly gaining street cred in the wearable space courtesy of Samsung's smartwatches and their handful of apps. The latest brand to help push this young ecosystem is none other than Opera …

More: BetaNews, Opera Software, PC World, The Next Web, Gigaom, CNET, SlashGear, Electronista and Tech Digest

Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:

Teamsters seeking to unionize Facebook shuttle bus drivers, hope to move on to Google and Apple next — Facebook's Bus Drivers Seek Union — They shuttle highly paid Facebook employees to and from the company's headquarters in Silicon Valley, yet many say their pay is so low that they can't afford to live in the area.

More: The Daily Dot, bizjournals, CNET, Los Angeles Times, AllFacebook, Valleywag, PC Magazine, NBC Bay Area, Business Insider, Gigaom and Telegraph. Tweets: @jwjnational

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