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December 8, 2014, 7:50 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.

More: Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Uber Blog, New York Times, NDTV News, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Next Web, CNET, TechCrunch, Times of India, Forbes, GeekTime, MediaNama, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, Gigaom, Reuters, VentureBeat, The Verge, Engadget, MediaNama, Associated Press, GeekWire, Tech in Asia, Reuters, stratechery, PandoDaily and Quartz. Tweets: @danprimack

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

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Portland files lawsuit against Uber, asks company to stop operating illegally

More: PortlandOregon.gov, The Next Web, Gizmodo, The Verge and Business Insider

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

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

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

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

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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 Authority, Android Police, ReadWrite, The Next Web, AndroidGuys and Phandroid

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.

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 …

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 TechSpot

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, TechSpot, Engadget, Electronista, DailyTech, The Next Web, Gizmodo, The Verge and SlashGear. See also Mediagazer

Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:

To make computer science 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 …

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

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Hackers responsible for Sony breach demand the “movie of terrorism” be pulled, likely referring to “The Interview” — Sony Pictures attackers demand: “Stop the terrorist film!” — New data dump on SPE execs along with a helping of malware.

More: Fusion, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, gist.github.com, Reuters, Gizmodo, Re/code, Fortune, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, The Wrap, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, Newsweek, SC Magazine, ReadWrite and Tech Times

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Forces Transmit to Remove Send to iCloud Drive Feature, Blocks All Share Sheet File Transfers in the Process — Panic's file management app Transmit made its way to iOS with the launch of iOS 8, bringing several useful capabilities that took advantage of iOS features, including …

More: Panic Blog, AppleInsider, MacStories, Gigaom, 9to5Mac and iMore

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, Slate, Ubergizmo, Electronista and GeekTime

Tweets: @des, @declanm and @dangillmor

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

Cromwell Schubarth / bizjournals:

LendingClub hikes IPO target 17%, now hopes to raise up to $929M — LendingClub increased price targets on Monday for the IPO it plans this week, now saying it could raise nearly $929 million. — That's up nearly 17 percent from the targets set a week ago by the San Francisco-based peer-to-peer lender …

More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, NASDAQ.com, http://www.journalgazette.net …, StreetInsider.com and IFRe

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