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December 16, 2014, 4:21 AM

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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: Ubergizmo, Android Police, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Google, GeekWire, CNET, The Verge, The Next Web, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Engadget, Gigaom, 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

Jacob Fischler / BuzzFeed:

Uber responds to Sen. Al Franken, says it accessed reporters' account because she was late, scales back access to God View; senator still dissatisfied — Uber Said It Accessed BuzzFeed News Reporter's Information Because She Was “Late” — The company, responding to Sen. Al Franken …

More: VentureBeat, The Next Web, Politico, Wall Street Journal, CNET, New York Times and PC World

Tweets: @dnvolz and @itsfischy

See also Mediagazer

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.

More: Skype Blogs, The Verge, eWeek, Wall Street Journal, BGR, GeekWire, SuperSite for Windows, The Register, SlashGear, ExtremeTech, Techie Buzz, Gigaom, ScienceAlert, Tech Times, SiliconANGLE, Geek.com, TechSpot, PC World, PC Magazine, USA Today, The Tech Portal, TIME, gHacks Technology News, NBC Bay Area, Neowin, Cult of Mac, Mashable, BetaNews, CNET and dailywireless.org

Tweets: @davidellis and @scottlowe

Thanks:@reckel

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

Tweets: @dens and @theromit

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft removes waitlist for its Office presentation app Sway, adds slew of new features to the preview — Microsoft today expanded the preview for its content aggregation and presentation application Sway. The waitlist has been axed, meaning anyone with a Microsoft Account can sign up to start creating Sways.

More: Office Blogs, The Register, Good E-Reader, Patently Apple, TechCrunch, SuperSite for Windows, Business Insider, The Fire Hose, WinBeta, The Next Web and The Tech Portal

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 …

Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat:

Google integrates Nest with its iOS and Android apps, enables voice commands, Now cards — Google for Android and iOS updated with Nest integration — The “Works with Nest” program has a new addition: the Google app. — Starting now, Nest thermostat owners can use Google's self-titled iOS …

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

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Bose May Be Working on Streaming Music Service — Apple's Beats Electronics and Bose already compete in the headphone and speaker markets, but it appears that Bose may be gearing up to compete with Beats in another area — streaming music. — A Bose job listing first noticed by Hypebot …

Kate Knibbs / Gizmodo:

Russian malware SoakSoak infects 100k+ self-hosted WordPress sites, uses known vulnerability in RevSlider plug-in — Report: Mysterious Russian Malware Is Infecting 100,000+ Wordpress Sites — A Russian malware called SoakSoak has infected over 100,000 Wordpress sites since this Sunday, turning blogs into attack platforms.

More: Sucuri Blog, Ars Technica, Sucuri Blog, ZDNet, Threatpost, Infosecurity Magazine, SC Magazine and Help Net Security. Tweets: @hfuhs

Elyse Betters / Pocket-lint:

Microsoft's Gestures Beta app brings ‘enhanced’ gestures to Lumia Windows Phone devices — Microsoft has been working on some interesting gestures for Windows Phone that will allow you to interact with your device without having to touch the display, and the company is now ready to show off …

More: Windows Phone, MSDN Blogs, The Verge, PhoneDog.com, Geek on Gadgets, WinBeta and WMPoweruser

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, New York Times, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Quartz, CNET, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, The Register, Tech Times, WMPoweruser, SlashGear, App Advice, dailywireless.org, Macworld, The Tech Portal, WebProNews, Inquirer and Gigaom. Tweets: @jafurtado

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Jury begins deliberations in billion-dollar Apple iTunes trial — OAKLAND, Calif.—The long-running iTunes antitrust lawsuit against Apple has gone to a jury, which took the case after about three hours of closing arguments today. The jury will make an unusual split decision …

More: CNET, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, VentureBeat, App Advice, 9to5Mac and iMore

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

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Comcast Will Finally Let Roku Owners Stream HBO, Showtime — Many people who own Roku Web video boxes can use the devices to watch shows from HBO and Showtime. But not Comcast subscribers: A dispute between Roku and America's biggest pay TV provider have kept the networks' streaming services off of Roku gadgets.

More: Engadget

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, The Tech Portal, Android Central, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, Pocket-lint, GeekWire and The Verge

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Warner Music's CEO advocates for paid services as streaming revenue rises 74% in last 12 months while download sales dropped by 12% — Warner Music Says It Loves Streaming Music — As Long as Listeners Are Paying for It — Like other music labels, Warner Music Group thinks the boom in streaming music services is a good thing.

More: Ubergizmo and MacRumors

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, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, VentureVillage, Gizmodo and SlashGear

Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News:

Networking company Riverbed Technology to be acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $3.6B after activist investor struggle — Riverbed Technology to sell for $3.6 billion after activist investor struggle — SAN FRANCISCO — Networking company Riverbed Technology has agreed …

More: ZDNet, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, CBC News, bizjournals, Benzinga, Financial Post, NASDAQ.com, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, Reuters, New York Times, Business Wire, Forbes and CNBC. Tweets: @recode

Kristian Vättö / AnandTech:

Western Digital's enterprise arm HGST to acquire flash array provider Skyera in all cash deal — Western Digital to Acquire Skyera — Western Digital, or its enterprise arm HGST to be exact, has today announced that it will be acquiring all-flash array provider Skyera.

More: Western Digital, Seeking Alpha and The Tech Report

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