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October 16, 2014, 1:35 AM

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

Nexus 9: 8.9" display, first 64-bit CPU in a Nexus, 9 hour battery life, preorders start Oct. 17, from $399, keyboard case sold separately — Google announces HTC-made Nexus 9 tablet, coming November 3rd — Google has just announced the Nexus 9, an Android 5.0 tablet that the company designed in collaboration with HTC.

More: PhoneArena, Greenbot, Android Police, Gotta Be Mobile, dailywireless.org, Phones Review, Electronista, BetaNews, Marketing Land and BGR

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Nexus 6: 6" Quad HD display, Snapdragon 805 CPU, 13 megapixel rear camera, 15-min turbo charging, preorders start Oct. 29, from $649 — Google's Nexus 6 is a giant phablet designed for Android Lollipop — Google is today introducing the Nexus 6, the latest in its line of smartphones designed …

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Nexus Player: first Android TV device, on sale Nov. 3 for $99, gaming controller for $39

More: DailyTech, Gigaom, SlashGear, Phandroid and Tubefilter. See also Mediagazer

Kellex / Droid Life:

Nexus 6 Coming to Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular in November

More: T-Mobile Newsroom, Droid Life, Geek Beat, Phandroid, TechnoBuffalo, Computerworld, Android Central, Business Insider and TmoNews

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Android 5.0 Lollipop available on new Nexus 6, 9 and Player devices; for Nexus 4, 5, 7, 10, Google Play Edition devices in coming weeks

More: The Official Motorola Blog, Re/code, 9to5Google, Official Android Blog, Wall Street Journal, Android Police and Engadget

Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:

will.i.am introduces Puls cuff with voice control, 1GB RAM, 16GB storage, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, more — Will.i.am introduces the Puls smartwatch — When you think wearables you don't usually think international superstar or Salesforce. Push aside that old way of thinking aside …

More: TechCrunch, PC World, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, 9to5Google, CNET, App Advice, VentureBeat, San Francisco Chronicle, Business Insider, Connectedly and KRON4

Tweets: @reckless, @claire0h, @caseynewton and @iamwill

Jordan Kushins / Gizmodo:

Interview with will.i.am on the Puls and “fashionology” — Meet Puls, will.i.am's Gigantic Wearable Cuff — We first heard about will.i.am's foray into the world of smartwatch-esque wearables back in April, but we had... questions. … Today he unveiled the Puls.

More: The Huffington Post, Cult of Mac, MobileSyrup.com, Wearable Tech Insider and Mashable. Tweets: @dewitt

Mariella Moon / Engadget:

Puls partners with AT&T in the US and O2 in the UK

More: TechSpot

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, The Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App — If you're even kind of active on reddit, you probably know of Alien Blue. As far as perusing reddit on iOS goes, it's pretty much the undisputed champ. — It seems reddit would agree.

More: reddit, Re/code, Gigaom, Digital Trends, New York Times, AppleInsider, The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, VentureBeat and Ubergizmo

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

HBO will offer a stand-alone streaming service in 2015 — HBO Says Web Subscriptions Coming in 2015 — HBO says it's finally ready: Sometime in the next year the pay TV service will be selling a Web-only offering. — HBO CEO Richard Plepler, speaking at an investor presentation hosted …

More: timewarner.com, CNNMoney.com, Bloomberg, SlashGear, The Verge, The Atlantic Online, VideoNuze Analysis, TheStreet.com, BBC, The Information, Engadget, Techdirt, Business Insider, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Gigaom Research, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors, ReadWrite, The Verge, TechCrunch, TIME, CNET, GeekWire, SocialTimes, Android Police, Tubefilter, WebProNews, BestTechie, Liliputing, Business Insider, The Slanted, CNET, Hypable, AdAge, Consumerist, Mashable, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, LIVEdigitally, The Technology Chronicles, iMore, Electronista, Forbes and BetaNews

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Brian Fung / Washington Post:

HBO's taking on Netflix like never before. But now they'll share the same headaches, too. — HBO is finally caving to consumer pressure and will be offering its streaming service, HBO Go, as a standalone subscription next year. This is a huge deal for cord-cutters, people …

More: Quartz, Mercury News, The Verge, Geek News Central and Businessweek. See also Mediagazer

Lauren Goode / Re/code:

Apple Plans to Stop Selling Fitbit Devices in Stores — Apple may soon stop selling the popular Fitbit devices, as it clears the way for its own wearable technology product set to launch sometime next year, according to sources. — It's unclear exactly why Apple will no longer sell the devices …

More: Engadget, iMore, Ubergizmo, Consumerist, SlashGear, Mashable, Macworld, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, BGR, App Advice, 9to5Mac, bizjournals, Pocket-lint, Patently Apple and MacRumors

Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:

Leaked: Fitbit Charge, like Force but without nickel, and Charge HD with heart rate monitoring

More: MobileSyrup.com, Wearable World News, Macworld and Mashable

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

'iPad Air 2′ and 'iPad mini 3′ with Touch ID & Burst Mode confirmed, show up early in iTunes — Apple's iTunes Store has just made a little bit of a slip-up (and with perfect uncanny timing): screenshots for the iOS 8.1 iPad user guide have just appeared within iBooks and include Apple's upcoming iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3.

Husain Sumra / MacRumors:

Initial iPad Air 2 Supplies May Be Limited, 27-Inch Retina Display iMac Launching by End of 2014

More: 9to5Mac, Tech Times, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, TechSpot, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider and Gotta Be Mobile

Justin Kroll / Variety:

Christian Bale in talks to play Steve Jobs in Sony's new movie “Jobs” — Christian Bale to Play Steve Jobs in New Movie — Oscar-winner Christian Bale, who has played Batman and Moses, is about to take on another iconic figure: Steve Jobs. — Sources confirm the actor …

More: iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, Guardian, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, App Advice, MacNN and iMore

Tweets: @markgurman and @billb

Alex Wagner / PhoneDog:

HP: webOS cloud services, App Catalog to shut down on January 15 — Earlier this month, we learned that LG may be working on a new webOS SmartWatch, which would be the first new mobile webOS product in quite some time. Unfortunately, now we have a bit of bad webOS news to balance out the good.

More: VentureBeat and pivotCE

Agam Shah / PC World:

Intel preps new technology to secure credit card transactions — Swiping credit cards or using payment systems like Apple Pay at stores could become much safer thanks to a new Intel system, which could also make it easier for retailers to secure data after transactions are completed.

More: ZDNet, Intel Newsroom, Oregonian, Payment Week and BetaNews

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

AT&T No Longer Offering Beats Music Subscriptions to Customers — AT&T is no longer offering Beats Music subscriptions to its subscribers as an add-on service, according to an AT&T employee who spoke to MacRumors. The cellular company has ceased giving customers the option to sign …

More: MacNN, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac and iMore. Tweets: @joshconstine

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Netflix Q3 earnings: profit of $59.3M on revenue of $1.41B; shares fall over 25% on lower-than-projected subscriber numbers — Netflix Blames Missed Sub-Growth Targets on Price Increase, as Stock Gets Hammered — Netflix added 3.02 million overall streaming customers for the third quarter of 2014 …

More: Re/code, Agence France-Presse, VentureBeat, Deadline, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Tech Trader Daily and CNET. See also Mediagazer

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

In Q3 Netflix added two international subscribers for every new U.S. member, but price hike slowed growth

More: Business Insider, The Verge, CNET, internetretailer.com, Tech Times and WebProNews

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Nadella says differences in base pay among genders and races at Microsoft within 0.5%, announces plan to recruit and train for diversity — Internal Memo: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sets new diversity plan after ‘humbling’ experience — A week after his controversial comments about women and pay raises …

Thanks:@taylor_soper

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Google Play downloads now exceed Apple's App Store by 60 percent, but iOS apps still make more money — According to the latest figures from App Annie's quarterly market reports, app downloads from the Google Play store outstripped downloads from the iOS App Store by around 60 percent in comparison to the same time last year.

More: MacRumors, iMore and CNET

Milen / Helftone Blog:

The Mac App Store should support app trials and paid upgrades, secure apps without sandboxing — Mac App Store: The Subtle Exodus — The Mac App Store was released in January 2011 and it marked the beginning of a great new distribution channel. Even though it lacked some bells and whistles …

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