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November 17, 2014, 4:32 AM

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Apple:
Apple Adds UnionPay Payment Option for App Store Customers in China  —  Apple® today announced that the App Store has added UnionPay as a payment option for customers in China.  China UnionPay is the most popular payment card in China and will provide App Store customers with a simple …
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Facebook at Work, now in testing at several companies, will enable document collaboration and chat, and let users separate personal and work profiles  —  Facebook is making ‘Facebook at Work,’ so you can Facebook at work  —  You already Facebook at work, so here's “Facebook at Work.”
Joshua Goldman / CNET:
Toshiba Chromebook 2 review: one of the best screens on a Chromebook at a great price  —  Toshiba Chromebook 2 review: Impressive Chromebook for the cost  —  Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Apple MacBook Air (13-inch)  —  Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display (2013, 15-inch screen)
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
How the Russian Anonymous Marketplace has maintained a thriving dark web drug trade for more than two years  —  How a Russian Dark Web Drug Market Outlived the Silk Road (And Silk Road 2)  —  Silk Roads come and Silk Roads go.  But after every law enforcement crackdown shakes the dark web …
Cade Metz / Wired:
Facebook's new data center sidesteps a hierarchical network model, avoiding the expensive switches made by Cisco and Juniper  —  Facebook's New Data Center Is Bad News for Cisco  —  Facebook is now serving the American heartland from a data center in the tiny town of Altoona, Iowa.

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