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November 4, 2014, 1:45 PM
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Amazon Prime customers now get unlimited cloud storage for photos  —  With so many backup options, losing your photos should be impossible  —  When it comes to backing up your photo library and life's most precious memories, it's good to have multiple options.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Dropbox and Microsoft partner to let users access Dropbox from Office apps, edit Office files from Dropbox app  —  Dropbox and Microsoft form surprise partnership for Office integration  —  Office mobile apps will soon seamlessly sync to Dropbox  —  Microsoft and Dropbox are teaming …
Steven Bertoni / Forbes:
Sean Rad to step down as Tinder CEO, will become president and remain on board  —  Exclusive: Sean Rad Out As Tinder CEO.  Inside The Crazy Saga  —  Sean Rad, the cofounder and CEO of Tinder, an app that over the past two years has completely reinvented how young people date and mate, has been generating news regularly.
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Alibaba Posts 54% Revenue Increase, But Net Profit Falls Below Expectations  —  Alibaba beat already high expectations for revenue growth in its first quarterly earnings report since its record-setting $25 billion initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in September, but missed its profit forecast.
Walt Mossberg / Re/code:
MCX CEO: CurrentC exclusivity deal blocking Apple Pay at CVS will expire in months, not years  —  What Are the Anti-Apple Pay Merchants Afraid Of?  —  I've been a regular customer at CVS/pharmacy, the country's second-largest drugstore chain, for 20 years.
Robert Hannigan / Financial Times:
UK's GCHQ chief says tech companies enable terrorism and child exploitation, wants them to better facilitate “lawful investigation”  —  The web is a terrorist's command-and-control network of choice  —  People do not want social media platforms to facilitate murder, writes Robert Hannigan
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel Capital invests $62M in 16 tech startups  —  Intel Capital, the venture arm of the world's biggest chipmaker, is unveiling it has invested $62 million in 16 tech startups today.  The investments show that Intel is still bullish about funding new tech companies that could one day spur lots …
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Confirmed: Apple opening Seattle software office  —  Apple is moving into enemy territory and has started an engineering office in Seattle, its first in the Northwest.  —  Like other California companies setting up shop in the shadow of Microsoft, Apple is attracted by the area's software talent …
Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom:
Netflix open sources Dynomite to make any datastore distributed  —  With Dynomite, Netflix claims it can cut down on performance issues and better handle traffic spikes.  —  Netflix detailed on Monday a framework it has open sourced, called Dynomite, that can convert non-distributed databases …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Intel Capital Leads $35M Investment In Social Login Service Gigya  —  Gigya, a company that helps online businesses and publishers manage customer logins, is announcing that it has raised $35 million in a funding round led by Intel Capital.  —  CEO Patrick Salyer told me that this was a strategic investment from Intel.

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