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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.
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| 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 … | 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.| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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.
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Mashable, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Engadget and WebProNews
| 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 …
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Engadget and Gizmodo Australia
| Dennis Fisher / Threatpost: |
Google open sources nogotofail, a tool to test the security of any device or application on the internet — Google Releases Nogotofail Tool to Test Network Security — The last year has produced a rogues' gallery of vulnerabilities in transport layer security implementations and new attacks … | 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.| 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 …
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9to5Mac, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, Mac Blog, PadGadget and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @sammywalrusiv
| 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 — How Much Would You Pay For An “Undo” Button On Tinder? — Tinder is moving forward with a testing plan for Tinder Plus …
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
BlueSnap Raises $50 Million For Its Global Payment Processing Tech — Global payment services provider BlueSnap has raised $50 million in a round of growth financing as the battle over who will rule the register both in stores and online heats up. — The growth of online shopping alongside …
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PYMNTS.com, bizjournals, BetaBoston, Finextra Research news and PE Hub Blog
| 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 …
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VatorNews, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider and hypebot
| 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.| 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 …
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| 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 …
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iMore, Geek Beat, Cult of Mac, BGR, MacRumors, Digital Trends, Droid Life, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidGuys, App Advice, 9to5Mac, Phandroid, 9to5Google and iDownloadBlog.com
| Leon Spencer / ZDNet: |
VMware to launch vCloud Air public cloud platform in Australia in first half of 2015 — Telstra to host VMware public cloud platform — Summary: Telstra will play host to VMware's vCloud Air public cloud platform as it makes its move into the Australian marketplace …
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