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Aman Sharma / The Economic Times:

Delhi Government bans Uber, says it is misleading customers — NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has acted after the rape incident involving a 25-year-old woman in Delhi and has issued an order on Monday banning the services of Uber India in Delhi, saying it is misleading customers.

Malini Menon / Reuters:

Indian police arrest Uber driver who allegedly raped passenger, will take legal action against company for failing to run background checks — Uber cab driver in India arrested after suspected rape — (Reuters) - Indian police on Sunday arrested an Uber cab driver suspected of raping …

Sabine Devins / The Local:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks out against net neutrality, says internet needs a fast lane for some services — Merkel speaks out against net neutrality — Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for preferential services for certain providers on the web at her keynote speech at a conference in Berlin on Thursday.

More: GeekTime, The Verge, Electronista and Ubergizmo

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Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Former Apple Supply Manager Paul Devine, convicted in 2011 of selling trade secrets to suppliers, sentenced to a year in prison and $4.5M fine — Former Apple Global Supply Manager Paul Devine sentenced to a year in prison and $4.5M fine — A former Apple Global Supply Manager was sentenced …

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Pixelmator, Beyonce, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ & ‘Fargo’ lead Apple's iTunes Best of 2014 awards — Apple on Monday debuted its curated list of the best content available from its various digital platforms, including apps, music, movies, books, podcasts and more.

More: 9to5Mac, BGR, Gigaom, iMore, USA Today and TechCrunch

Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:

Google study finds 56.1% of display ad impressions it served never appeared on screen — 5 Viewability Findings From Google — Online marketers are increasingly opting to pay only for “viewable” ad impressions — those that actually display on users' screens, rather than ones that appear …

More: Think with Google, SiliconANGLE, Quartz, Beyond Search, CBS News, Forbes, DoubleClick Advertiser, BizReport, Research-live.com, ExchangeWire.com, The Drum and Marketing Land

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Jason Hiner / TechRepublic:

Apple's first employee: The remarkable odyssey of Bill Fernandez — Perhaps best known as the guy who introduced Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Bill Fernandez speaks out on Apple's founding magic, how love built the first Mac, and the interface of the future. — The Apple II got there first.

More: Business Insider, iMore and MacRumors. Tweets: @starfire2258. Thanks:@jasonhiner

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

HP Stream 11 review: only $200 with decent battery life, build quality, free Office and cloud storage, but compromises on performance — Don't call it a netbook (or a “Chromebook killer")—HP's $200 Stream 11 reviewed — Netbooks never really went away—it's just that no one calls them netbooks anymore.

More: Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, CNET, ZDNet, PC Magazine and Daring Fireball

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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:

North Korea denies hacking Sony but calls the breach a ‘righteous deed’ — TOKYO — North Korea has denied hacking Sony Pictures' computer systems in retaliation for its movie “The Interview,” which revolves around a plot to assassinate North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un.

Reuters:

North Korea's cyber war cell Bureau 121 employs 1800 hackers who are considered military elite

More: TechnoBuffalo, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Engadget and ZDNet. Tweets: @hg_masters

Ron Miller / TechCrunch:

Mesosphere Announces First Data Center OS And $36M In Funding — Mesosphere, the commercial entity built on top of the open source Apache Mesos project, announced some major milestones today, starting with $36M in Series B funding along with the early release of what they are calling the first data center operating system.

More: Wall Street Journal, The Register, PE Hub Blog, Gigaom, PandoDaily, The New Stack and VentureBeat

Michelle Jaworski / The Daily Dot:

Engineer builds machine to swipe right on Tinder non-stop — Leave it to a male engineer to make it infinitely easier to swipe right on Tinder. — YouTube user James Befurt set up a computer program and an elaborate mechanical apparatus ending in a robotic pointer finger that swipes right on every profile in Tinder.

More: YouTube, Jezebel, Death and Taxes, Mirror.co.uk and Business Insider

Douglas Martin / New York Times:

Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of First System for Home Video Games, Is Dead at 92 — Ralph H. Baer, who turned television sets into electronic fantasy lands by inventing and patenting the first home video game system, died on Saturday at his home in Manchester, N.H. He was 92. — His death was confirmed by his family.

More: Gamasutra, The Verge, Mashable, Kotaku, VentureBeat, Washington Post, IGN, GameSpot, Joystiq, Ars Technica, Polygon, Boing Boing, The A.V. Club, Xbox Live's Major Nelson and TIME. Tweets: @plamere

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