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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 …
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.
Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
Amazon Begins Extending Prime-Member Perks to Other Shopping Sites  —  Can Amazon Prime become the VIP pass for the rest of the web?  —  For the first time since launching its Prime membership program in 2005, Amazon is extending some of the club's perks to its members as they shop on other big shopping sites around the Web.
More: TechCrunch and Gizmodo.  Tweets: @delrey
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.
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
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 …
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 …
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
iFixit: Nexus 9 is full of glue, harder to fix than older Nexus tablets  —  An exploded Nexus 9.  It's apparently pretty hard to dismantle.  —  iFixit  —  We weren't as impressed by HTC and Google's new Nexus 9 as we wanted to be, and diving deeper into the tablet is giving us more reasons to be unexcited.
More: iFixit, Inquirer and ZDNet
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Disney partners with Google to bring its cloud movie locker to Android and Google Play Movies  —  Disney would like consumers to continue to buy its movies.  That's why the company now struck an alliance with Google to add its cloud locker to Android.  —  Disney took the next step …
Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal:
Samsung looking for up to 1M sq. ft. of office space in New York City for US expansion  —  Samsung Eyes Large New York City Expansion  —  Electronics Giant Seeks Up to 1 Million Square Feet of Office Space  —  Technology giant Samsung Electronics Co. is eyeing the creation …
More: 9to5Google

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Nancy Scola / Washingtonian:
A deep look at FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's moves favoring the Trump administration; former chair Tom Wheeler warns against the agency becoming a political tool

Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
The Massachusetts Senate passes an amendment that would in many instances bar judges, grand juries, and others from forcing reporters to identify their sources

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