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November 26, 2014, 8:40 PM

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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Twitter to Start Tracking Which Apps Its Users Have Downloaded — Twitter will soon be peeking in on your smartphone. Literally. — The social network says it will start collecting data on which apps its users have downloaded onto their phones. The update is opt-out …

Pocket Blog:

Apple's new phones taking screen time from iPads; iPhone 6+ owners open 65% more articles and videos than those with smaller phones — The Screen-Size Debate: How the iPhone 6 Plus Impacts Where We Read & Watch — Every day, millions of articles, videos and web pages are saved and viewed …

More: Quartz, TechCrunch, Gigaom, PandoDaily, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, MobileSyrup.com, GeekWire, The Next Web and MacStories

Tweets: @lowresolution, @ropiku, @lukew and @cgpgrey

Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal:

GoPro to sell multirotor consumer drones with high definition cameras late next year for $500-$1000 — GoPro Developing Line of Consumer Drones — Company Plans to Start Selling Multirotor Helicopters With High-Definition Cameras Late Next Year — The wearable video camera maker …

More: The Verge, CNET, Quartz, Fox News, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Connectedly, Gizmodo, bizjournals, Gigaom, TechCrunch, TechSpot and WebProNews

Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:

Google Fiber Austin pricing: basic internet free, Gigabit $70/month, Gigabit+TV $130/month — Google Fiber Posts Austin Pricing — 1-Gig/Pay-TV Bundle To Start At $10 More Than In K.C. & Provo — Google Fiber has posted details on the three residential service plans it will offer …

More: 9to5Google, Google Fiber, KXAN-TV, PC World, PC Magazine, Android Authority and DSLreports

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Tumblr Overtakes Instagram As Fastest-Growing Social Platform, Snapchat Is The Fastest-Growing App — With 1.35 billion active monthly users, Facebook continues to be the world's largest social network by some margin, but when it comes to picking up new users, it appears to have reached a saturation point.

More: Marketing Land, Ubergizmo, Mashable, memeburn, Marketing Pilgrim and Neowin

Tweets: @johnjannuzzi and @bessemervp

Bloomberg:

Sony is developing an e-paper smart watch, entire face and band will function as a display — Sony Said to Plan E-Paper Watch in Test of Innovation — Sony Corp. (6758) is developing a watch made out of electronic paper for release as soon as next year in a trial of the company's …

Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal:

DOJ used 225-year-old law to get federal court to order manufacturer to bypass phone password — Case Suggests How Government May Get Around Phone Encryption — The Justice Department is turning to a 225-year-old law to tackle a very modern problem: password-protected cellphones.

More: Cult of Mac and Patently Apple. Tweets: @nikkipjah, @kevinmitnick, @scottthurm, @dannyyadron and @csoghoian

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Unity Finally Releases Its Long Promised User Interface Creator — Good news, everyone! — Once upon a time, Unity promised to overhaul the way developers would build user interfaces in their Unity-powered games. This was roughly around the time man discovered fire*.

Thanks:@grg

Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat:

Lyft says it had record usage last week in wake of Uber controversy — Uber had a rough week following its PR meltdown involving a journalist, an Uber executive, possible threats against that journalist, calls to ban Uber, and the specter of possible privacy violations by Uber execs.

More: Gigaom, BuzzFeed and Business Insider. Thanks:@dylan20

William Alden / New York Times:

Almost half of Airbnb's $1.45M in 2010 revenue in New York City was from 119 users with over 3 listings, who may have violated the law — The Business Tycoons of Airbnb — Two years ago, when the monthly rent on his two-bedroom apartment rose to $5,000 from $2,800, a 35-year-old real estate agent in Lower Manhattan had a quick fix.

More: Re/code. Tweets: @transbay

Danny Hakim / New York Times:

EU Parliament member calling for breakup of Google works for law firm that represented publisher in antitrust case against Google — European Legislator Urging the Breakup of Google Has Ties to a Law Firm — Andreas Schwab, a German member of the European Parliament …

More: Re/code, Valleywag, Ars Technica, PC World, Wall Street Journal, Search Engine Land, WebProNews, Washington Post, SiliconBeat, The Hill, Search Engine Roundtable, The Loop and CNET. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Tumblr Rolls Out Mobile App Install Ads In The Form Of Shareable Sponsored Posts — Tumblr this morning is rolling a new mobile-only ad unit called “Tumblr Sponsored Apps” which will allow app publishers to target the social blogging service's largely Millennial (and heavily mobile) …

More: MediaPost and Fast Company. Thanks:@techtipster1

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