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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

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 …

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

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.

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, Neowin, Help Net Security, Financial Times, Geek.com, PC World, The Hill and GeekWire

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

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

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

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, The Next Web, TechSpot, New York Times, Digital Trends, Fortune, Engadget, CNET, Gigaom, SlashGear, The Verge and Gizmodo. 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 …

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

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

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, Geeky Gadgets, Neowin, IntoMobile, SlashGear, CNET, The Next Web, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, Android and Me, Phandroid, MobileSyrup.com, TechCrunch and FOSS Patents

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: Computerworld, Gigaom, Data Center Knowledge, The Register, InfoWorld, VentureBeat, CITEworld, TechCrunch, Mashable, EnterpriseTech, eWeek, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, ReadWrite, InfoQ, Business Insider and TechCrunch

Martin Beck / Marketing Land:

Marketing company claims it started #AlexFromTarget meme, but inconsistencies raise questions — Is The Company Claiming Credit For #AlexFromTarget Really Behind It? — Some wondered if the #AlexFromTarget phenomenon was too good to be organic. Now it seems so.

More: LinkedIn Pulse, CNET, CNN, Mashable, Tech Times, Adweek, Business Insider, Business Insider, NEWS.com.au, Q13 FOX News, Gawker, abc7.com, Yahoo Tech, Gigaom, The Daily Dot and ClickZ

Tweets: @auscalum, @alyssabereznak, @acl163, @breakrnation, @theellenshow, @breakrnation, @dannysullivan, @mikeisaac, @tomgara, @fmanjoo, @joshuatopolsky and @ashfein

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 …

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