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December 15, 2014, 7:05 PM

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Gurdeep Pall / Skype Blogs:

Skype Translator preview goes live on Windows 8.1 with support for real-time translation of English and Spanish — Skype Translator Preview - An Exciting Journey to a New Chapter in Communication — For more than a decade, Skype has been breaking down geographical barriers to make every day audio and video communications possible.

Amazon:

HBO GO is now available on Amazon Fire TV, support for Fire TV Stick coming in spring — HBO GO Now Available on Amazon Fire TV — HBO GO joins a growing list of services that support Amazon Fire TV voice search — customers simply say the name of a movie or TV show to find it on Amazon …

More: Android Police, 9to5Google, GeekWire, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Ubergizmo, Droid Life, Android Central and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal:

HBO Go not available on Fire TV for Comcast and Charter customers

More: Gizmodo and TIME

The Foursquare Blog:

Foursquare launches on iPad with emphasis on trip planning — Introducing Foursquare for the iPad, the best way to plan your holiday travels. — Since the new Foursquare came out a few months ago, people have been telling us that they do a lot of their planning on their iPad …

More: TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, App Advice, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Mashable, MacNN, iMore and SlashGear

Tweets: @dens and @theromit

Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat:

Google integrates Nest with its iOS and Android apps, enables voice commands, Now cards — You can now control your Nest thermostat with the Google app on iOS and Android — The “Works with Nest” program has a new addition: the Google app. — Starting now, Nest thermostat owners …

More: Android Police, BGR, MacRumors, 9to5Google, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear and O'Grady's PowerPage

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay admin talks about the raid, copycats, says he's not sure site will be relaunched — Pirate Bay Responds to The Raid, Copies and The Future — For more than a decade The Pirate Bay's been the bastion of uncensored information. Until the raid on some of its critical infrastructure last week …

More: The Register, Gizmodo, Plagiarism Today, Ubergizmo, BGR, The Age, VentureBeat, ExtremeTech, Business Insider, PC Magazine, The Next Web and The Hill

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Gartner: 301M Smartphones Sold In Q3 As Xiaomi Muscles Into The Top 5 At Samsung's Expense — Smartphones now account for 66% of all mobile phones worldwide and are on track to see 2014 sales of 1.2 billion units in 2014. But while Android appears to have “won” the so-called platform war …

More: Gartner, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Quartz, Engadget, 9to5Google, CNET, Tech Times, TechnoBuffalo, WMPoweruser, App Advice, RCR Wireless News, The Tech Portal, SlashGear, Inquirer and WebProNews. Tweets: @jafurtado

Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land:

Google is talking to retailers about 1-click “Buy Now” button and an Amazon Prime-like free 2 day shipping program — Google Shopping May Go Deeper Into Ecommerce With “Buy Now” Button To Challenge Amazon — Google is reportedly floating the idea of a “Buy Now” button and two-day shipping program.

More: Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo and Android Central

Brad Smith / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Apple, Amazon, other tech giants, trade groups, and academics support Microsoft in its case against US Government on overseas search warrants — Business, Media and Civil Society Speak Up in Key Privacy Case — Today represents an important milestone in our litigation concerning …

Laura Lorenzetti / Fortune:

SurveyMonkey is worth $2 billion after new $250 million fundraising round — SurveyMonkey, the online survey platform, raised $250 million in equity financing, making the company worth close to $2 billion. — The funding will help the company pursue future acquisition purchases …

More: Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, bizjournals, PE Hub Blog and SiliconBeat

Napier Lopez / The Next Web:

SoundCloud introduces ‘Collection,’ a dashboard for following artists and listening to your playlists — SoundCloud is great for discovering unique content and mixes you'll scarcely find anywhere else, but sometimes keeping track of all that audio goodness gets a bit cumbersome.

More: SoundCloud, Gizmodo, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, SlashGear and VentureVillage

Brian Ries / Mashable:

Uber introduces surge pricing during Sydney hostage siege, then backtracks, offers free rides, refunds — Uber intros surge pricing during Sydney hostage siege, then backtracks after user outcry — This post was updated at 10:45 p.m. ET to include an updated statement from Uber

Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:

Sony unlikely to prevail in court if it sues media organizations for publishing stolen data — Can Sony sue media outlets who publish the stolen Sony documents? — David Boies, representing Sony, has written a letter to various media outlets, demanding that they not publish or otherwise use …

More: New York Times, New York Times, Uncrunched, CNET, The Verge, Krebs on Security, CNNMoney.com, Los Angeles Times, Mashable, USA Today, SlashGear, Poynter, The Next Web, Gigaom, Computerworld, SC Magazine and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @awallenstein. See also Mediagazer

Alex Heath / Cult of Mac:

Workflow lets you easily chain together and automate hundreds of actions across iOS apps — Workflow pushes the limits of how powerful iOS can be — A new app called Workflow aims to close the divide between the power of OS X and the convenience of iOS.

Tweets: @arix

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Amazon's Kindle for iOS app updated w/ Goodreads integration, Audible progressive play, more — Amazon pushed out an updated version of its Kindle for iOS app today bringing a list of new features to the reading app. — Kindle for iOS now includes integration with Goodreads …

More: VentureBeat, The Verge, GeekWire, Digital Trends, The Digital Reader, Engadget, TechCrunch, Talking New Media, iMore, MacNN and Ubergizmo

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

Survey reveals most technology companies' privacy policies do not cover employee access to user data — We Asked 29 Tech Companies If Their Employees Can Access Your Personal Data — Privacy policies rarely mention the weakest point in any company's security infrastructure: its employees.

Tweets: @cwarzel and @parmy

Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:

Facebook now has an empathy team, calls users “people” to consider them in more human way — Facebook: We Don't Call Them ‘Users’ Any More, We Call Them ‘People’ — Facebook has overhauled the way it talks about its userbase and advertising customers in order to consider them in a more “human” way.

More: GeekWire and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu, @cgerrish and @beastoftraal

Matthew Bennett / The Spain Report:

Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association Now Asks Government To Help Stop Google News Closure — NEWS: AEDE announces it wants the Spanish government and EU competition authorities to stop Google closing Google News: “to protect the rights of citizens and businesses”.

Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Google:

T-Mobile teases a new uncarrier deal livestreaming tomorrow as it claims 50% faster LTE in NY — T-Mobile has announced that it will be unveiling its latest contract-free deal in a livestreamed ‘fireside chat’ tomorrow, Un-carrier 8.0. … The company hasn't hinted at any of the details, but we'll of course let you know ...

More: T-Mobile Newsroom, T-Mobile Newsroom, iMore, The Verge, Android Authority, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, IntoMobile, iMore, TmoNews and Gotta Be Mobile

Chine Labbe / Reuters:

France says UberPop to be banned as irate taxi drivers stall traffic — (Reuters) - The UberPop transport service will be banned in France from Jan. 1 to avoid unfair competition, the interior ministry said on Monday as taxi drivers impeded morning traffic into Paris in a one-day protest against the U.S.-based online cab-hailing firm.

More: New York Times, Telegraph, BBC, Bloomberg, SlashGear, Fortune, BuzzFeed, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Globe and Mail, Techvibes Global News and VentureBeat

Loek Essers / PC World:

Google faces up to €15M fine over privacy violations in Holland — Dutch authority to Google: change privacy policy or else — If Google doesn't change how it handles users' private data by the end of February, it may face fines of €15 million (about US$18.6 million), the Dutch Privacy Authority said Monday.

More: Dutch DPA, Ars Technica, iTnews, Bloomberg, Quartz, The Hill, MediaPost, Associated Press and The Register

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