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November 7, 2014, 6:50 PM

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Asus ZenWatch to go on sale in US on November 9th at Best Buy for $199 — Asus To Begin Selling Android Wear-Powered ZenWatch In The U.S. Nov. 9 — The Android Wear smartwatch collection is expanding, with a host of new devices hitting pre-holiday season after their initial debut this summer.

More: AndroidHeadlines.com, PC World, The Verge, Android Police, Engadget, DailyTech, Pocket-lint, TechnoBuffalo, Android Central, Electronista, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, SlashGear, Canadianreviewer.com, PhoneDog and Droid Life

Financial Times:

Uber looking to raise another $1B, at a higher valuation than the $17B secured during June round — Uber looks to raise another $1bn — Uber is not done with fundraising this year. The San Francisco car-hailing service is in early talks with investors about raising at least $1bn in new capital …

More: Re/code, Business Insider, GeekWire, VentureBeat and Mashable

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @fmanjoo

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Operation Onymous busted several contraband markets, arrested 17, captured $1M in bitcoin, seized 414 “.onion” domains used by Tor — Authorities Begin Scorched-Earth Purge of the Internet Underground — When “Operation Onymous” first came to light yesterday …

Jennifer Kaplan / Bloomberg:

United Airlines spending $120M to equip restaurant and gate seats with iPads by 2015 in its main terminal in NJ's Newark Liberty International Airport — United Woos Fliers to Newark With IPads: Globetrotter — For travelers awaiting some of the tardiest departures in the U.S. …

More: iMore, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple, Electronista and TUAW

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Unfollow Your Most Annoying Facebook Friends And Pages With “News Feed Settings” — Face it. You've accepted friend requests from some weirdos and over-sharers. Luckily, today Facebook's launched a News Feed Settings tool that shows the friends and Pages taking up the most space in your Feed …

More: Facebook, The Next Web, The Verge, The Daily Dot, ReadWrite, Macworld, PC Magazine, CNET, BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, Marketing Land, New York Times, VentureBeat, Engadget and internetretailer.com

Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine and @drsherrypagoto

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Uber hires Tom Fallows, who led Google's same-day delivery service Google Express — Uber Hires Google's Same-Day Delivery Boss — Tom Fallows, head of the Google Express same-day delivery service, is leaving for a job at Uber, multiple sources told Re/code. — Google confirmed Fallows's departure.

Rachel King / ZDNet:

AT&T buying Mexico wireless provider Iusacell for $2.5 billion — Summary: AT&T outlined ambitions on Friday of establishing “the first-ever North American Mobile Service area” for U.S. customers calling or visiting Mexico, and Mexican customers calling or visiting the United States.

More: about.att.com, GeekWire, Bloomberg, CNET, The Verge, iMore, Re/code, BGR, Reuters, GlobeNewswire, Android and Me and Associated Press

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

This is Vudu Spark, Walmart's very own Chromecast competitor — Walmart is getting ready to sell its very own streaming stick, but the device is very much a one-trick pony. — Add Walmart to the list of companies that's trying to sell you a Chromecast-like HDMI streaming stick …

More: Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Verge, Tom's Guide, Liliputing, PC World, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Electronista and TechSpot. Thanks:@bizcarson. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft teases first non-Nokia Lumia smartphone unveiling for November 11 — Microsoft is getting ready to unveil its first device under the Microsoft Lumia brand. According to a very short post on the Microsoft Mobile site, the news will drop on November 11, 2014.

Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review:

Google Genomics cloud service launched in March, stores genomes from hospitals and universities for $25/year — Google Wants to Store Your Genome — For $25 a year, Google will keep a copy of any genome in the cloud. — Google is approaching hospitals and universities with a new pitch.

More: 9to5Google, Tech Times, opptrends and The Verge

Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Federal sites and mobile apps implement SSL after leaking locations of people seeking AIDS services for years — Federal sites leaked the locations of people seeking AIDS services for years — Two federal government Web sites that help people find AIDS-related medical services …

More: SC Magazine and FierceHealthIT News

Kory Grow / Rolling Stone:

Taylor Swift on why she left Spotify: streaming services perpetuate “the perception that music has no value and should be free” — Taylor Swift Shuns ‘Grand Experiment’ of Streaming Music — “I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates …

More: Yahoo Music, Globe and Mail, BGR, Digital Trends, USA Today, ABC News, Tech Times, Billboard, Engadget, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo and The Trichordist

Brian R. Fitzgerald / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter collaborating with advocacy group Women, Action & the Media to help report abuse and harassment — New Online Tool Lets Twitter Users Report Harassment — Twitter is collaborating with a women's advocacy group that will review and escalate reports of harassment on the social media service.

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