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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.”

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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 …

More: Re/code, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and App Advice. Tweets: @benbajarin

Carol Morello / Washington Post:

State Department shuts down its e-mail system amid concerns about hacking — The State Department scrambled over the weekend to secure its unclassified e-mails, shutting down the entire e-mail system after finding evidence suggesting a hacker may have been been poking around.

More: Associated Press, BetaNews, New York Times, NBC News and Business Insider. Tweets: @davegirouard

Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:

Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent — A panel of Goldman Sachs employees spent a recent Tuesday night at the Columbia University faculty club trying to convince a packed room of potential recruits that Wall Street, not Silicon Valley, was the place to be for computer scientists.

More: Facebook, Valleywag and Business Insider

Tweets: @jamestitcomb, @infoarbitrage, @drewharwell and @sub8u

The Physics arXiv Blog:

As scientific publishing goes digital, researchers increasingly cite older work in papers — The Extraordinary Growing Impact Of The History Of Science — Old scientific papers never die, they just fade away. Or they used to. Now electronic publishing has made old papers as easy to find as new ones …

More: Beyond Search. Tweets: @mattjhodgkinson, @cdixon and @galenward

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)

More: Computerworld, Laptop Mag, The Verge, Android Central and TechRadar.com

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 …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Kevin Rose launches Watchville, an app for luxury watch enthusiasts, and looks to launch more luxury ecommerce apps — Kevin Rose Plots A Luxury Ecommerce Empire Starting With New App Watchville — “I did not like watches my entire life,” Digg co-founder Kevin Rose tells me.

More: PC Magazine and SlashGear. Tweets: @kevinrose, @producthunt and @gedeon

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Craftsy raises $50M, bringing total funding to nearly $100M for paid crafting video tutorials — Craftsy, an E-Learning Site for Makers, Raises $50 Million — The executives at Craftsy want to make one thing clear: Arts and crafts aren't just for children anymore.

More: Business Wire, SocialTimes, EdSurge, Xconomy and StrictlyVC

Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:

Unshackled raises a $3.5M angel fund to provide visas and paychecks for immigrant entrepreneurs while they build their companies and fundraise — Unshackled, a New Angel Fund, Forms to Back Immigrant Entrepreneurs … Some of the U.S.'s most successful tech companies …

Tweets: @charliebeckett, @mikalfm, @raju, @legatuminst and @andresbarreto

Rachel Metz / MIT Technology Review:

Startup Knightscope building 5 foot-tall robotic security guards to patrol campuses and malls — Rise of the Robot Security Guards — Startup Knightscope is preparing to roll out human-size robot patrols. — As the sun set on a warm November afternoon, a quartet of five-foot-tall …

More: SlashGear, Gizmodo, Tac Anderson, ReadWrite and Laughing Squid

Tweets: @julien, @grok_, @peterwsinger and @mccrory

New York Times:

Apple Pay brings significant increase in mobile payments to retailers like Whole Foods and McDonald's, increases awareness of Google Wallet and Softcard — Apple Pay Gives Glimpse of Mainstream Appeal for Mobile Payments — For years, tech companies have dreamed of a future in which people ditch …

More: Engadget, Ubergizmo, Electronista, Tech Times, Gizmodo, Patently Apple, http://patriciahandschiegel …, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, 9to5Mac, MacRumors and App Advice

Tweets: @tim_cook, @dawnc331, @bxchen and @mikeisaac

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