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November 13, 2014, 5:10 PM

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Erin Egan / Facebook:

Facebook proposes changes to its terms, data and cookies policies; releases interactive privacy guides; lets users opt out of certain ads on all devices — Updating our Terms and Policies: Helping You Understand How Facebook Works and How to Control Your Information

Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook makes new privacy policy 70% shorter, includes interactive Privacy Basics tutorials — Facebook Gives Its Privacy Policy a Makeover — Facebook simplified and shortened by two-thirds its description of how it uses data, responding to concerns that users didn't understand its policies.

More: Computerworld, Marketing Land, Seeking Alpha, CIO.com, Globe and Mail, bizjournals, SlashGear, VentureBeat, The Verge, PandoDaily, WebProNews, Fortune and Gigaom

Tweets: @qthrul, @wsjd and @reedalbergotti

Vindu Goel / New York Times:

Facebook updates privacy policy, but users have little control over how their data is used to sell ads

More: The Awl

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Facebook's New Privacy Rules Clear the Way for Payments Push and Location-Based Ads

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Reddit CEO Yishan Wong resigns, Ellen Pao to be interim CEO, Alexis Ohanian back full time as executive chairman — Reddit Chief Executive Resigns as Company Shuffles Top Ranks — Reddit, the popular online community message board, wants to grow up into a viable business.

More: Sam Altman, Business Insider, TechCrunch, GeekWire, The Verge, Mashable, reddit, SocialTimes and WebProNews

Tweets: @gaberivera, @grg, @adrjeffries, @danprimack, @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac

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Alexis Ohanian / reddit:

As executive chairman, Alexis Ohanian says Reddit's focus will be on mobile, UX, and community tools

More: The Daily Dot, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, VentureBeat, The Next Web and WebProNews. Tweets: @alexisohanian

Miguel Helft / Fortune:

Fortune's Businessperson of the Year, Google's Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe — Google's Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe — There's a joke about Larry Page that's been making the rounds at Google X, the “moon shot” factory where Google …

More: SiliconBeat, 9to5Mac, Business Insider and 9to5Google

Tweets: @kennethn, @alansmurray and @fortunemagazine

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Amazon Announces EC2 Container Service For Managing Docker Containers On AWS — At its re:invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon today announced its first Docker-centric product: the EC2 Container Service for managing Docker containers on its cloud computing platform.

More: Amazon Web Services (AWS), The Register, InfoWorld, ZDNet, Docker Blog, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Amazon.com and The New Stack

Ron Miller / TechCrunch:

Amazon Launches Lambda, An Event-Driven Compute Service

More: ZDNet, VentureBeat, Forbes and Amazon.com

Dan Primack / Fortune:

AngelList rolls out new “Funds”, which allow institutional investors to back portfolios of startups — A disruptor shakes up angel investing — One recent evening a group of institutional money managers was ushered into a backroom at San Francisco brasserie the Cavalier via …

More: bizjournals. Tweets: @eladgil, @grahamjenkin and @shaig

Myles Udland / Business Insider:

S&P assigns junk rating to Twitter's debt, as 5% stock slide erases most of Thursday's gains — Twitter Is Junk, Says S&P — Twitter shares are down more than 5% in afternoon trade on Thursday, giving up almost all of their gains from yesterday, after the company received a “junk” rating from credit agency S&P.

More: CNBC and Seeking Alpha

Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

In new agreement with Amazon, Hachette will set prices for its ebooks — Updated: Amazon and Hachette finally reach deal; Hachette will set its ebook prices — Amazon and book publisher Hachette have finally reached a deal in the contentious and public negotiations that have been going on since May …

More: VentureBeat, VatorNews, Publishers Lunch, New York Times, CNET, Business Insider, Fortune, The Verge, Electronista, Mashable and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

MPAA launches WhereToWatch site, listing legal movie and TV streams in continued fight against piracy — Here's Another Movie and TV Search Site. This One's From Hollywood. — There are so many places to find movies and TV shows. They're on TV! They're on the Internet!

More: Variety, PC World, TechSpot, Business Insider, The Next Web, Deadline, The Credits, The Digital Reader, Advanced Television, Engadget, BGR, Lifehacker and bizjournals

Bloomberg:

Amazon: ARM Chipmakers Aren't Matching Intel's Innovation — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), which operates some of the world's largest data centers, said makers of chips that use ARM Holdings Plc (ARM)'s technology aren't keeping up with Intel Corp. (INTC)'s pace of innovation.

More: Seeking Alpha

Dustin Volz / National Journal:

Harry Reid Moves For Senate Vote on NSA Reform — The Senate Majority Leader is hoping to move the bulk data collection bill before his party returns to the minority. — “That sunset could very easily touch off an ugly intra-party battle among both Democrats and Republicans,” said Harley Geiger …

More: Ars Technica, Washington Post, Patrick Leahy, The Hill, National Journal, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Techdirt, Washington Times, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Nextgov. Tweets: @nationaljournal. Thanks:@dnvolz

Liz Rowley / AdExchanger:

Mozilla to serve ads on Firefox's new tab page, uses anonymized browsing history instead of cookies for ad personalization, users can opt out — Mozilla Finally Releases Its Browser Ad Product, Hints At Programmatic In 2015 — Mozilla, which makes the Firefox web browser …

More: Marketing Pilgrim, PR Newswire, CNET and MarketingVox News & Trends

Ryan Smith / AnandTech:

Apple's A8X features powerful semi-custom 8-core GPU — Apple A8X's GPU - GXA6850, Even Better Than I Thought — Working on analyzing various Apple SoCs over the years has become a process of delightful frustrating. Apple's SoC development is consistently on the cutting edge …

More: 9to5Mac, BGR, MacRumors, iMore, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacNN, iLounge, MobileSyrup.com, InvestorPlace, Macworld and O'Grady's PowerPage

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google's Search App For Android Gets Material Design Update And New Smarts — The Google app for Android — the app that handles your voice searches, Google Now Updates and more — is getting an update today that brings Google's new Material Design user interface to the app for devices …

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