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Husain Sumra / MacRumors:

Apple Watch Pricing to Reportedly Start at $500 for Stainless Steel, $4,000 for Gold — French Apple website iGen.fr is reporting [Google Translate] that pricing for the stainless steel Apple Watch may start at $500, while the gold Apple Watches' pricing could start between $4,000 and $5,000. iGen …

Kara Swisher / Vanity Fair:

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's battles with the taxi industry, regulators, and sometimes, customers — Man and Uber Man — Uber, Travis Kalanick's smartphone-based car service, has been valued at $18.2 billion, but its C.E.O. still spends a lot of his time on the warpath.

More: Business Insider and Mashable. Tweets: @msquinn, @danprimack and @mikeisaac

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

In Europe, Spotify Royalties Overtake iTunes Earnings By 13% — Spotify may be smarting from the removal of Taylor Swift's music catalogue from its platform, and Taylor Swift may not care, since she is riding a sales blockbuster in the form of her new album 1989, but it turns out that in the bigger picture …

More: Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, iMore, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, AppleInsider, Neowin, VatorNews and hypebot

Robert Lemos / Ars Technica:

EFF finds that only 6 of 39 messaging apps guarantee basic secure communications — Security scorecard finds messaging apps need more development — Only six out of 39 messaging applications have the features needed to guarantee the security of communications sent over the Internet …

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, BetaNews, TUAW, WebProNews, Help Net Security, Geek.com, PC World, The Hill, GeekWire, Neowin and Financial Times

Lauren Goode / Re/code:

Jawbone launches $50 Move clip-on fitness tracker, preorder today, ships Nov 7; $180 Up3 wristband tracker with heart-rate sensor, ships within weeks — Jawbone Joins Pre-Holiday Wearable Race, With $50 Up Move and a New Up3 Wristband — Get ready for yet another activity-tracking device.

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Sonos adds multi-account support for streaming services to its internet-connected speakers — Sonos adds multi-account support to its connected loudspeakers — Sonos wants to make sure that your kids questionable taste in music doesn't ruin your Spotify recommendations.

More: Zatz Not Funny!, The Sonos Blog, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, TechRadar.com, SlashGear, MobileSyrup.com, Android Police, Digital Spy, Geek Beat, AndroidGuys and Connectedly

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Music competition app Chosen, founded by ex-Beats Music CEO, raises $5M led by DCM, expected to launch Q1 2015 — Ex-Beats Music CEO's New App “Chosen” Is A Mobile-First American Idol — Sing, yodel, or shred guitar into your phone, and get famous. That's the idea behind performance …

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

LG G Watch R Review: voice commands too limited, circular display chops Google Now cards, software and hardware need refinement — LG G Watch R review — Watches are functionally boring. Their primary task of displaying the time has been figured out for centuries …

More: Wearable Tech Insider, Engadget and Gizmodo Australia. Tweets: @reckless

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, VentureVillage, RAIN News, TechSpot, The Next Web, New York Times, Digital Trends, Fortune, Engadget, CNET, Gigaom, SlashGear, The Verge and Gizmodo. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

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: Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider

Tweets: @adrjeffries, @ellenhuet, @backlon, @counternotions and @mims

Electronista:

AT&T Next 24 plan allows customers to extend device payments over 30 months starting Nov. 9 — AT&T adds longer payment period option to Next installment plans — AT&T Next 24 has 30 monthly payments, upgrades from month 24 — AT&T is giving its customers a third option to acquire …

More: AT&T Newsroom, PC World, TechSpot, iMore, Cult of Mac, Geek Beat, MacRumors, Digital Trends, Droid Life, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidGuys, App Advice, 9to5Mac, Phandroid, 9to5Google and iDownloadBlog.com

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games — While playing the original versions of classic games on aging original hardware can sometimes be difficult, it's at least typically possible. That's not the case for many online games, which are functionally inoperable once …

More: SiliconANGLE, Techdirt, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Electronista and bit-tech.net

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Swype keyboard for iOS adds 16 new languages, auto Emoji suggestions, more — Swype iOS 8 keyboard now available in 20+ languages, adds new layouts & auto Emoji suggestions — Nuance announced an update for its Swype keyboard for iOS 8 today that introduces support for a long list …

More: Business Wire, PC Magazine, iMore, Engadget and Ubergizmo

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Google and LG will license each other's patents for the next decade — Samsung isn't the only Android device maker getting cozy with Google's patents, apparently. LG has just entered into a cross-licensing deal with Google that will let the two companies use each other's patents (including new ones) for the next 10 years.

More: LG Newsroom, Android Police, Inquirer, TechSpot, Geeky Gadgets, Neowin, IntoMobile, SlashGear, CNET, The Next Web, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, Android and Me, Phandroid, MobileSyrup.com, TechCrunch and FOSS Patents

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, Emojipedia Blog, Unicode Consortium, Gizmodo, The Verge, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, ABC News, Associated Press, Windows Phone Central and Tech Times

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: Fortune, Mashable, TIME, Inquirer, Naked Security, SecurityWeek, InfoWorld, Los Angeles Times, SocialTimes, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Slate, The Register, The Next Web, ZDNet, TechCrunch and The Hill

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