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November 17, 2014, 1:10 PM

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Jane L. Levere / New York Times:
Airbnb launches Pineapple, a quarterly print magazine focused on travel; $12 at select stores  —  Airbnb Introducing Print Magazine, Pineapple  —  Following in the footsteps of other digital brands like CNET and WebMD, Airbnb is getting into the print magazine business.
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Apple Adds UnionPay, China's Largest Bankcard Network, To App Store Payment Options  —  App Store customers in China can now link their UnionPay debit or credit cards to their Apple IDs for purchases, Apple announced today.  —  This is significant for Apple and Chinese consumers because China UnionPay …
Connie Loizos / StrictlyVC:
Nest's hierarchical, meeting-centric culture is said to clash with Dropcam's  —  Unrest at Nest  —  Sitting on stage last week at a San Francisco conference, Greg Duffy, the 28-year-old co-founder and CEO of Dropcam, which makes Internet-connected video cameras, fielded questions from an audience of startup founders.
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Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:
Alibaba co-founder and vice-chairman Joe Tsai talks Apple, M&A and the company's U.S. plans  —  Q&A: Alibaba Senior Executive On Apple, M&A and U.S. Plans  —  After going public in September in a $25 billion initial public offering, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is gearing up for the next stage of its growth.
Michael J. Casey / Wall Street Journal:
Khosla Ventures, Reid Hoffman, others invest $21M in Blockstream to enable new distributed applications built on bitcoin's blockchain technology  —  Linked-In, Sun Microsystems Founders Lead Big Bet On Bitcoin Innovation  —  Billionaire entrepreneurs who helped lead LinkedIn Corp. …
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
FCC will propose raising annual cap on spending for school Internet needs by $1.5B to $3.9B  —  F.C.C. Chief Aims to Bolster Internet for Schools  —  WASHINGTON — With a goal of fiber-optic lines reaching to every school and a Wi-Fi connection in every classroom, Tom Wheeler …
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
A new program at San Quentin State Prison is teaching 18 inmates HTML, CSS, and JavaScript  —  How 18 inmates at California's notorious San Quentin prison learn to code  —  SAN QUENTIN, CA—It sounds almost like a parody of Silicon Valley: two wealthy San Francisco Bay Area tech veterans …
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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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