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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, SlashGear, Business Insider, WebProNews, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and GeekWire

Tweets: @delrey and @gregbensinger

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.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @backlon, @ellenhuet, @mims, @mikeisaac and @caseyjohnston

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 …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Data Center Knowledge, Computerworld, Mashable, ReadWrite, InfoWorld, Seeking Alpha, InfoQ, Business Insider, PLUMgrid and WebProNews

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, iMore, BGR, Gigaom, Digital Trends, MacRumors, Forbes, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, The Verge, PE HUB, 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, BGR, ZDNet, Re/code, Computerworld, TechCrunch, The Mac Observer, Ars Technica, TechSpot, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, GeekWire, theWHIR.com, Fortune, Fast Company, PC World, SlashGear, Gigaom 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.

More: VatorNews, Gigaom, The Daily Dot, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, SocialTimes, Valleywag, Business Insider, Fortune, Salon, CNNMoney.com, WebProNews, TIME and Mashable

Tweets: @bonatsos, @dmac1, @dmac1, @stevenbertoni, @jonfortt and @pkafka

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Tinder testing its paid product Tinder Plus in select countries outside US; features include Undo and Passport, with prices from $.99 to $19.99

Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors:

Emoji to Gain Expanded Racial Diversity With Skin Tone Modifier Option in Mid-2015 — The Unicode Consortium has released a technical report (via Emojipedia) detailing a new method for handling the representation of multi-ethnic groups in emoji. Previous guidelines have stated that emoji people be …

More: TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Emojipedia Blog, The Verge, ABC News, AppleInsider, Unicode Consortium, Ars Technica, iMore and Tech Times

Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:

Warner Music Group Signs Deal to License Music to SoundCloud — Warner Is First Major Record Label to Start Earning Money From German Audio-Sharing Site — Warner Music Group has signed a deal to license its music to SoundCloud Ltd., the companies said, making Warner the first major record label …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Fortune, Engadget, CNET, Gigaom, The Next Web, The Verge, Gizmodo and SlashGear. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

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

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, Mercury News, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, PC World, Ubergizmo, CNET, PE HUB, bizjournals and GeekWire

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, TechCrunch, The Register, PC Magazine, InfoQ, The Verge, Electronista, Ubergizmo, Geeky Gadgets, CNET, Business Insider, Tech City News and Joystiq

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, theWHIR.com, CNET, Kotaku, Engadget, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Tech in Asia and Gizmodo UK. See also Mediagazer

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Acer's 12-inch Switch tablet is five devices in one — Thought Acer's Aspire Switch 10 tablet was a true jack-of-all-trades? It's already outclassed. The PC maker has officially revealed the Aspire Switch 12, a 12.5-inch sibling that's a little more flexible.

More: PC World, Laptop Mag, Gizmodo, BetaNews, ZDNet, Electronista, ITProPortal, Geeky Gadgets, Digital Trends, Liliputing and SlashGear

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: GeekWire, ZDNet and Tech Trader Daily

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, ZDNet, BGR, The Register, Gizmodo UK and Help Net Security

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.

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