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December 8, 2014, 11:45 AM

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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: VentureVillage, The Verge, Electronista, GeekTime and Ubergizmo

Tweets: @declanm and @dangillmor

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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AppleInsider:

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, The Verge, BGR, Gigaom, iMore, USA Today, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo and SlashGear

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: @ericbuth, @binarybits, @caseyjohnston and @dimasguardado

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, Business Insider, Mashable, Ubergizmo, GamePolitics blogs, VentureBeat, Washington Post, Kotaku, IGN, GameSpot, Joystiq, Polygon, Boing Boing, The A.V. Club, Ars Technica, Xbox Live's Major Nelson and TIME. Tweets: @plamere

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

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

Tweets: @sachinrekhi, @websterderek, @nngroup, @hoofnagle, @jtemple, @mdudas and @leeodden

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, PC Magazine, ZDNet, CNET and Daring Fireball

Tweets: @nash076 and @gaborfari

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. Tweets: @starfire2258. Thanks:@jasonhiner

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, The Verge, The Next Web and Gizmodo

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