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December 8, 2014, 1:35 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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Google Cloud Platform now supports Microsoft server app licenses, Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition  —  Google today announced it has expanded Windows support on the Google Cloud Platform.  New additions include Microsoft License Mobility, support for Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition …
Bruce Schneier / MIT Technology Review:
Antivirus Companies Should Be More Open About Their Government Malware Discoveries  —  Antivirus companies had tracked the sophisticated—and likely U.S.-backed—Regin malware for years.  But they kept what they learned to themselves.  —  Last week we learned about a striking piece …
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Hachette to Experiment With Selling Books on Twitter  —  Do tweets sell books?  —  It has long been a question for publishers and authors, who have started relying heavily on social media to promote books as they search for new ways to reach readers in an uncertain retail market.

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