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December 8, 2014, 6:15 PM

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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.

Sriram Krishnan / Medium:

Uninformed reactions to the Uber rape case in India play to existing biases — In defense of Uber in India — It's pretty frustrating to follow the press coverage of Uber rape case in India on sides of the world. What is a terrible tragedy—the details are awful and stomach churning …

More: Uber Blog. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@aarthir

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

More Woe For Uber As Ride Sharing Service UberPop Ban Upheld In The Netherlands [Updated]

More: ABC News, Reuters, Fortune, City A.M., WSJ, Raw Story and memeburn

Tweets: @ingridlunden and @sayoniaiyar

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google releases Android Studio 1.0, the first stable version of its IDE — After two years of development, Google today released Android Studio 1.0, the first stable version of its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) aimed at Android developers. You can download it right now for Windows …

More: Android Developers Blog, 9to5Google, Android Police, ReadWrite, The Next Web, SlashGear, Phandroid and Android and Me

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Brings Graph Search To Mobile And Lets You Find Feed Posts By Keyword — Facebook is finally getting serious about search. Today it's challenging Google for finding answers and Twitter for checking real-time chatter with the launch of keyword search.

More: Facebook, The Verge, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNET, PC Magazine, The Daily Dot, Search Engine Watch, Engadget, GeekWire, Tech Trader Daily, Search Engine Land, Marketing Land, Re/code, Marketing Pilgrim, Pocketnow, Lifehacker and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @joshconstine

Rolfe Winkler / WSJ:

YouTube offers some of its stars bonuses to post exclusively to the service for a limited time before posting to rivals — YouTube Offering Its Stars Bonuses — Google Inc.'s YouTube unit is racing to lock up its top stars as rival online video services court them aggressively.

More: VideoNuze Analysis, TechSpot, 9to5Google, Tubefilter, SlashGear, The Verge, Electronista, Engadget, Tech Trader Daily and ECPM BLOG

Tweets: @theskyhorse, @wsjd, @dannysullivan and @mathewi

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Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:

Amazon Has A Plan To Deliver Your Packages In Only One Hour If You Live In New York City — Amazon has been testing the idea of using bike messengers to help deliver packages within an hour in New York City, sources tell The Wall Street Journal. — The program — called Amazon Prime Now …

More: WSJ, The Verge, Gizmodo, Reuters and Seeking Alpha

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Ev Williams' Obvious Ventures Is A Fund For Investing In ‘World-Positive’ Startups — Serial entrepreneur Ev Williams has made a fortune over the years, and now wants to invest some of his riches into startups. But not just any startups — the co-founder of Blogger and Twitter is looking …

More: Re/code, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Mashable, WebProNews and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @ryanlawler

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: Slate, VentureVillage, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Electronista and GeekTime

Tweets: @des, @declanm and @dangillmor

Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:

To make CompSci more relevant and inclusive, we should add it to general curriculum in schools — To address tech's diversity woes, start with the vanishing Comp Sci classroom — In May 2014 at the all-girls Emma Willard School in upstate New York, nearly a third of the school's 300+ students …

Tweets: @eringriffith, @superlokkus, @ericbuth, @binarybits, @caseyjohnston and @dimasguardado

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Vimeo starts offering 4K downloads, but shies away from streaming — Janko Roettgers — Credit: Fer Gregory / Shutterstock — Credit: Fer Gregory / Shutterstock — Vimeo-loving video producers can finally put that expensive Red camera to good use: Vimeo is now allowing Pro subscribers …

More: VentureBeat, Vimeo Staff Blog, Digital Trends, Engadget, DailyTech, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Mobile Geeks, The Verge and SlashGear. See also Mediagazer

Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid:

[Update] Samsung Gear VR now available for $200 at Samsung.com and AT&T … Samsung has always listed December 2014 as the landing date for their virtual reality wearable Samsung Gear VR, and unless my calendar is bugged that window has arrived. While Samsung has yet to formally announce a solid date …

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, The Next Web, The Verge, PC World, Digital Trends, Electronista, TechCrunch, Android and Me, Ubergizmo, 9to5Google, Pocket Gamer.biz, Polygon, TIME, Liliputing, Wearable World News and Examiner

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Yahoo will unveil a suite of dev tools for mobile apps at its first Dev Con Feb. 19 — Yahoo announced today that it will be hosting its first ever developer conference, The Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference, early next year in February. Yahoo confirmed it plans to use the event to unveil …

More: Yahoo, eWeek, PC Magazine, SiliconBeat, GeekWire, WebProNews, The Technology Chronicles, TechCrunch, Wireless Week and The Next Web

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

PlayStation Network taken offline again for more than two hours by DDoS attack; hacking group Lizard Squad takes credit — Hackers Hit Sony, Again — Hackers hit a second division of Sony today. Sony's PlayStation online gaming network was offline for more than two hours as a result of an apparent cyber attack.

More: BBC, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, Fortune, PC World, Fortune, The Register, TIME, ExtremeTech and The Next Web

Tweets: @lizardpatrol, @playstation and @playstation

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