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November 12, 2014, 8:05 PM

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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Microsoft shocker: Open-source .NET, free Visual Studio, support for Linux, Mac, Android and iOS … In a major strategy change designed to expand its horizons in the cloud, Microsoft will take its key software development technologies into areas that the company has long considered enemy territory …

More: Microsoft, Miguel de Icaza, Wired, TechCrunch, ReadWrite, GitHub, VentureBeat, GeekWire, MSDN Blogs, InfoWorld, Computerworld, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Android Police, Linux.com, The Register, ExtremeTech, Gigaom, MacRumors and Ars Technica

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @donpark and @btaylor

Thanks:@johnhcook

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft debuts Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 previews, free Visual Studio Community 2013

More: Somasegar's blog, TechCrunch, MSDN Blogs and eWeek

Casey Newton / The Verge:

YouTube announces YouTube Music Key subscription service; free invite-only beta starts Monday, will cost $7.99/month after 6 months — YouTube announces plans for a subscription music service — Ad-free music and music videos starting at $7.99 a month — After spending months on revisions …

CNET:

Nexus 6 review: great display, top-of-the-line processor, more unwieldy than other big phones — Prepare to pay for the biggest Android Lollipop powerhouse — The Good The Google Nexus 6 has a razor-sharp and expansive display, a top-of-the-line Snapdragon 805 processor …

More: Re/code, Engadget, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Yahoo Tech, Android Police, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, TheStreet.com, Gigaom, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Gigaom, Ars Technica, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge and SlashGear

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:

Android 5.0 Lollipop begins rolling out OTA to Nexus devices — It's definitely one of the most highly anticipated software updates that Android has ever seen. Today, the Android 5.0 Lollipop update—that was first previewed earlier this year at Google I/O—has begun rolling out OTA to Nexus devices everywhere.

More: PC World, TechCrunch, Android Police, Gizmodo, Android Police, The Verge, Ars Technica, BGR, The Next Web, Phandroid and Droid Life. Tweets: @android

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Android Lollipop review: almost every part of OS revamped, but apps that enable many features still unavailable

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Forbes, PCMag Australia google …, Engadget, Observation Deck, PC Advisor, Gotta Be Mobile, Trusted Reviews and The Verge

Nicole Lee / Engadget:

Samsung unveils Project Beyond, a 3D-capturing camera for Gear VR — Samsung has just unveiled a sneak preview of a new camera called Project Beyond, which is a 3D-capturing 360-degree camera designed to capture videos designed to be displayed on the Gear VR.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Computerworld, AppleInsider, CNET, Re/code, VentureBeat, The Verge and TechCrunch. Tweets: @tim

Nate Swanner / SlashGear:

Samsung Flow takes on Continuity for use across devices

More: The Verge, Engadget and Gigaom

Ry Crist / CNET:

SmartThings to control Samsung's smart appliances

More: Gigaom, ReadWrite, VentureBeat and Tech Times

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Samsung launching Gear VR ‘Innovator Edition’ in early December for $199

More: Samsung Mobile US Press, Engadget, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Re/code, Engadget, Gigaom, Ubergizmo, The Next Web and Gizmodo

Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat:

Samsung releases its SAMI health SDK to developers and unveils new Simband wearable

More: The Verge, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Engadget, ZDNet and Gigaom

Mary Madden / Pew Internet:

91% of US adults say consumers have lost control over how their personal info is collected and used by companies — Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era — Summary of Findings — Privacy evokes a constellation of concepts for Americans …

More: eWeek, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, Re/code, Fortune, ABC News, Poynter, PC World, Washington Post, SC Magazine, Computerworld, SocialTimes, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Forbes, SecurityWeek and AllFacebook

Tweets: @pewinternet, @zeynep, @arcadian_o and @ahess247

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

AWS has 1 million “active” customers, adds new database, an automated deployment tool, a source control service, an encryption keys management service, more — AWS: With more than 1 million active customers, we're your stack — Summary: Andy Jassy, senior vice president …

More: The Register, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, PC World, Amazon Web Services Blog, Amazon.com, Business Insider, Amazon Web Services Blog, TechCrunch, Amazon.com, Amazon Web Services Blog and Amazon Web Services Blog. Thanks:@zackwhittaker

Amazon Web Services (AWS):

Amazon Aurora - New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS — We launched the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) service way back in 2009 to help you to set up, operate, and scale a MySQL database in the cloud. Since that time, we have added a multitude …

More: VentureBeat, InfoWorld, ZDNet, Gigaom, TechCrunch, InfoQ, Digital Journal and The New Stack

The Huffington Post:

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Tells Silicon Valley He's Open To Obama Net Neutrality Plan — WASHINGTON — On Monday, President Barack Obama went public with his support of an aggressive approach to protecting net neutrality. Shortly after that, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler told …

More: Re/code. Tweets: @gigibsohnfcc, @mmasnick and @froomkin. See also Mediagazer

Roger Cheng / CNET:

AT&T chief says Net neutrality qualms could crimp fiber plans

More: Washington Post, The Verge, ZDNet, VentureBeat, BGR and Engadget. Tweets: @gnagesh

Washington Post:

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler signals split with Obama on net neutrality: “I am an independent agency”

More: Reuters, PC Magazine, The Hill, eWeek, Light Reading, 5by5 Master Audio Feed, The Mac Observer, Re/code and The Verge. Tweets: @alexhern. See also Mediagazer

Cameron Ewing / Facebook:

Facebook launches Say Thanks, a tool for creating personalized video cards for your friends — Introducing Say Thanks — Millions of people use Facebook every day to connect with the people and things that matter to them most. Your friends are at the core of your Facebook experience …

More: Slate, Re/code, Engadget, Fortune, Inside Facebook, ABC News, Pocket-lint, TechCrunch, AllFacebook, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, USA Today and Mashable. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Washington Post:

NOAA's weather system hacked by Chinese, which the agency then covered up, says congressman — Chinese hack U.S. Weather systems, satellite network — Hackers from China breached the federal weather network recently, forcing cybersecurity teams to seal off data vital to disaster planning …

More: CNNMoney.com, eWeek, Slate, CIO.com, Gawker and theWHIR.com. Tweets: @profwoodward. Thanks:@srikardr

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Twitter Will Onboard Users With “Instant Timeline”, Inject Top Tweets From “While You Were Away” — Twitter has 500 million logged out users it's trying to squeeze value out of, but now it has a plan to fix its growth problem, which is really a new user retention problem.

More: The Twitter Blog, PandoDaily, The Next Web, Gizmodo, New York Times, PC World, The Verge, Silicon Republic, internetretailer.com, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Marketing Land and Engadget

Tweets: @jguynn and @jguynn

Thanks:@joshconstine

Kevin Montgomery / Valleywag:

Handy, an on-demand cleaning and handyman startup, sued for allegedly misclassifying workers as independent contractors — Handy Sued For Being a Hellscape of Labor Code Violations — Handy, the on-demand “handyman” and house cleaning startup, is facing a class action lawsuit for violating an impressive amount of labor laws.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @mattyglesias, @kevinroose, @nitashatiku, @fmanjoo and @fmanjoo

Reuters:

Top Yahoo shareholders, unhappy with Marissa Mayer, make direct plea to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to explore merger — Exclusive: Some unhappy Yahoo investors asking AOL for rescue — (Reuters) - At least two top-10 Yahoo Inc shareholders are so unhappy with Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's turnaround efforts …

More: StrictlyVC, Businessweek, VatorNews, bizjournals, CNET, Marketing Pilgrim, Fortune, Marketing Land and Inquirer. Tweets: @felixsalmon. See also Mediagazer

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Cisco First Quarter Beats Expectations, Q2 Outlook Misses — Networking giant Cisco Systems reported first-quarter results that were slightly ahead of expectations, prompting its shares to rise initially nearly two percent in after-market trading. But its guidance for the second quarter came …

More: ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, Bloomberg, Fortune, Business Insider, bizjournals, WebProNews and Bloomberg

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Google's ad server suffers global failure, causing millions of ads to disappear from web — An unusual glitch struck Google's ad serving tool on Wednesday morning, causing blanks spaces to appear in place of advertisements on websites like BuzzFeed, Time, Forbes and VentureBeat.

More: Business Insider, The Next Web, Bloomberg, Mercury News, The Register, Computerworld, DoubleClick Publisher, Seeking Alpha, Inquirer, GeekWire, Marketing Land and 9to5Google

Edgar Alvarez / Engadget:

Google releases standalone Messenger app for Android — But what about Hangouts, you ask? Well, that application isn't going anywhere anytime soon, it would seem. Yet, Google isn't doing it any favors by outing a standalone version of Messenger, an app with very similar messaging features to the aforementioned.

More: The Next Web, PC World, PhoneDog, Android Police, Droid Life, AndroidHeadlines.com, SlashGear and Lifehacker

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