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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.

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: Mashable, Engadget, Business Insider, SlashGear, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Gizmodo and GeekWire

Tweets: @delrey and @gregbensinger

Brian Stevens / Google Cloud Platform Blog:

Google lets you run clusters of Docker containers with Container Engine, reduces cloud computing prices, announces new cloud connectivity options — Google Cloud Platform Live: Introducing Container Engine, Cloud Networking and much more — Today, tens of thousands of developers from around …

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Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

Uber and Its Shady Partners Are Pushing Drivers into Subprime Loans — The subprime lending market that plunged America into the Great Recession is back and as unscrupulous as ever. Instead of mortgages, this time a bubble has formed around auto loans, and reliably ruthless Uber is in the thick of it.

Tweets: @ellenhuet, @mikeisaac and @caseyjohnston

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.

More: Class Action Lawyers, Mercury News, BGR, iMore, Digital Trends, Gigaom, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Forbes, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, The Verge, PE Hub Blog, App Advice and TUAW. Tweets: @mdudas

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 …

More: The Dropbox Blog, News Center, Office Blogs, ZDNet, Re/code, Computerworld, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, TechSpot, Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, GeekWire, theWHIR.com, Fortune, Fast Company, PC World, SlashGear and Seeking Alpha

Tweets: @satyanadella, @tomwarren, @levie and @thurrott

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.

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Chris Sonderby / Facebook:

Facebook says government requests for data up 24%, content removal up 19% in just 6 months — Global Government Requests Report — Today, we're releasing our third Government Requests Report, which provides information about the number of government data and content removal requests …

More: VentureBeat, Computerworld, ZDNet, Reuters, The Next Web, TechCrunch and AllFacebook

Mic Wright / The Next Web:

Consumer version of Oculus Rift VR headset ready to arrive in ‘months’, says CEO — Oculus VR CEO, Brendan Iribe, told the audience at Web Summit 2014 in Dublin, that a consumer-version of the company's Rift VR headset is “close”. While he understandably declined to offer a timetable for launch …

More: VentureBeat, PC Magazine, The Register, TechCrunch, InfoQ, The Verge, Electronista, CNET, Ubergizmo, Geeky Gadgets, Joystiq, Business Insider, Tech City News, Gamasutra, GamesIndustry.biz and The Tech Report

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 …

More: TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, PC World, Wall Street Journal, CNET, GeekWire, bizjournals, Ubergizmo and PE Hub Blog

Andy / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay founder Fredrik Neij arrested in Asia, all three founders now behind bars — Pirate Bay Founder Fredrik Neij Arrested in Asia — Following the criminal convictions of Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, each went their separate ways.

More: Computerworld, Digital Trends, Guardian, Ars Technica, theWHIR.com, TechCrunch, CNET, Kotaku, Engadget, Business Insider, Tech in Asia and Gizmodo UK. See also Mediagazer

Kim Zetter / Wired:

Flaw in New ‘Secure’ Credit Cards Would Let Hackers Steal $1M Per Card — Chip-n-PIN cards like the one shown here are going to be widely in use in America by 2015. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images — As U.S. banks and retailers are barreling toward a 2015 deadline to replace magnetic-stripe credit …

More: Newcastle University, Gizmodo, BGR, The Register, Gizmodo UK, Help Net Security and PC World

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.

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 …

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.

More: VentureBeat, Fortune, GeekTime, PE Hub Blog, AdExchanger, internetretailer.com and Re/code

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Tony Zingale to Retire as Jive CEO, Elisa Steele Named President — Tony Zingale, the executive who has run Jive Software for five years and who saw the company through its initial public offering in 2011, is stepping down as the company's CEO. He will remain as executive chairman.

More: ZDNet and Tech Trader Daily

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, Laptop Mag, Inquirer, ExtremeTech, Tech Times, Phandroid, SlashGear, Geeky Gadgets, Droid Life, ZDNet, AndroidHeadlines.com and 9to5Google

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