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Tom Wheeler / Wired:

FCC Chairman Wheeler proposes using Title II authority to implement and enforce open internet protections — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality — Federal Communication Commission(FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler waits for a hearing at the FCC December 11, 2014 in Washington, DC.

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

FCC will apply net neutrality to mobile for the first time

More: Gizmodo, NPR, The Daily Caller and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

AT&T previews lawsuit it plans to file against FCC over net neutrality

More: Re/code, The Verge, GeekWire, Associated Press, AT&T Public Policy Blog, Droid Life, DSLreports, Gizmodo, The Mac Observer and USA Today

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple plans all-new Beats-based music service integrated into iOS, iTunes, and Apple TV, develops Android app in-house, considers charging $8/month — The Next Episode: Apple's plans for Beats-based music service revealed — Six months after buying the subscription music service Beats Music …

More: Telegraph, Gigaom, 9to5Google, CNET, Engadget, MacRumors, The Verge, Business Insider, WMPoweruser, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, PhoneDog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @stevekovach, @markgurman and @markgurman

Artem Russakovskii / Android Police:

The Next Android Revision Is Indeed ‘Android 5.1 Lollipop’, Shipping On Android One Phones, Coming To Nexus Devices — A few hours ago, we spotted no less than five mentions of “Android 5.1” on Google's Indonesian Android One page. Considering that 5.1 is quite a jump from 5.0.2 …

AppleInsider:

Apple is reportedly testing camera-equipped minivans in the Bay Area, possibly for a Street View-like mapping system — Apple testing mysterious camera-equipped vehicles in the Bay Area — A number of minivans with what appears to be camera equipment and a LiDAR sensor mounted to the roof …

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Verizon Cuts Most Data Plan Costs by $10 Per Month — Verizon on Wednesday announced a series of price cuts, chopping $10 per month off most of its monthly data plans. — A monthly shared data plan with 1GB of data will now start at $30 per month, rather than $40, with other rate plans getting a similar cut.

More: Verizon Wireless Promotions, Droid Life, iMore, The Verge, Android Authority, AppleInsider, MacRumors, BGR, Business Insider, Phandroid, Wireless Week, Android Community, Phones Review and Ubergizmo

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Apple's iPhone Overtakes Android In US Sales For The First Time Since 2012 — Apple, in its flush of new, bigger iPhone 6 handsets, has been selling record numbers of its older and newer model smartphones in the last few months, and now it's passed another significant milestone …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Taboola Gets $117M From Comcast, Other Strategics To Boost Its Content Recommendation Platform — Taboola — the recommendation platform that provides 200 billion content suggestions to 550 million users each month, and analytics to publishers and brands about what's getting people clicking …

More: Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, Beet.TV, VentureBeat, Fortune, GeekTime, SocialTimes, AdExchanger and Forbes. See also Mediagazer

Julie Bort / Business Insider:

What Satya Nadella has done in his first year as Microsoft CEO — In just one year, Satya Nadella made Microsoft so much better — One year ago, Microsoft appointed long-time Microsoftie Satya Nadella as the company's historic third CEO, and by all accounts, it's been a helluva ride for the company ever since.

More: Bloomberg Business, ZDNet, Ars Technica, Business Insider, CITEworld and CNET

Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:

Fast-Growing Zoom Raises $30 Million for Online Video Conferencing … Video conferencing companies have attracted millions of dollars in venture capital, as everyone from startups to large established companies like Cisco Systems Inc. try to make this technology work in the cloud.

More: eWeek, PE Hub Blog and Xconomy

Steven Levy / Backchannel:

How Twitter developed its revenue model, even as user growth disappointed — While Twitter struggles to get new users, its revenue side is killing it. — In 2009 Twitter was a 50-person company punching way above its weight in cultural impact, its micro-blogging platform blasting its way into the public imagination.

Tweets: @stevenlevy, @om, @evelynrusli, @isaach, @daiwaka, @twitterads, @jyarow, @adambain, @monkbent and @jimprosser

Andrew McMillen / Backchannel:

Almost all 47K edits by a top Wikipedia editor were to fix incorrect uses of “comprised of” — Meet the ultimate WikiGnome. — On a Friday in July 2012, two employees of the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk at Wikimania, their organization's annual conference.

More: Fusion, Business Insider and Gizmodo. Tweets: @annielowrey

James Vincent / The Verge:

Instagram introduces endlessly looping videos to please advertisers — Instagram has tweaked its video settings so that clips automatically replay in users' streams — a change that will be mainly welcomed by #brands keen to get as many views for their ads as possible.

More: Re/code, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Engadget and MobileSyrup.com

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft stops making the Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet, the last remaining Windows RT device in production — Windows RT is officially dead — Microsoft was left alone as the last manufacturer of Windows RT-based tablets, and now the software giant is no longer producing any RT devices.

More: CNET, Pureinfotech, Mashable, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, SlashGear and Pocketnow

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft launches preview of universal Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps for Windows 10 — Microsoft today launched the first part of its Office for Windows 10 in preview. You can download the new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps now from the Windows Store Beta that ships with the latest Windows 10 build.

More: The Verge, ZDNet, Neowin, Pureinfotech and WinBeta

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Twitter is testing a new landing page featuring curated tweets for people without accounts — Another Twitter Update! This One's a New Homepage, Designed to Lure New Users. — Twitter is experimenting with yet another new product tweak — a homepage designed for people who visit Twitter but don't have their own account.

More: Marketing Land, Mashable, SocialTimes and ValueWalk. Tweets: @sacca. See also Mediagazer

Laura Zhou / South China Morning Post:

China's cyber regulator says all mainland internet users must register real personal details — China's cyber regulator issued a new blanket ruling today that means all users of internet services must register their real personal details....

More: Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, BBC, Reuters, TechCrunch, ABC News and ZDNet

Jessica Plautz / Mashable:

Groupon founder Andrew Mason launches Detour, an iPhone app for location-aware walking tours in cities, starting with San Francisco — Groupon's ex-CEO launches audio tour app in San Francisco — Audio tours, often associated with museum field trips, are taking to the streets.

More: Wired, Laughing Squid, Upstart Business Journal and TechCrunch

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Stealthy enterprise data storage startup Qumulo raises $40M, adds Isilon founder to board … Hang around the Qumulo office long enough, and you'll certainly see someone whizzing by on a Razor scooter. The two-wheelers are spread throughout the 16th floor of the Century Square building in downtown Seattle …

More: Gigaom, TechCrunch, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, The Register and Xconomy. Thanks:@johnhcook

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:

OnePlus and Cyanogen put SwiftKey on the One by default — In the spirit of bloatware—which oddly goes against basically everything the company stands for—OnePlus has decided that SwiftKey is an absolute necessity for every user of its One smartphone. The company has partnered with SwiftKey …

More: OnePlus Blog, Android Authority, Droid Life, PhoneDog.com, Techaeris, Ubergizmo and Android and Me

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Serious bug in fully patched Internet Explorer puts user credentials at risk — Microsoft engineers are working to patch universal XSS vulnerability. — A vulnerability in fully patched versions of Internet Explorer allows attackers to steal login credentials and inject malicious content into users' browsing sessions.

More: Full Disclosure, SecLists.Org Security …, GeekWire, SuperSite for Windows, PC World, Security Affairs, Help Net Security and Neowin. Tweets: @virusbtn

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

California becomes first state to convict someone for operating a revenge porn website — A California jury has convicted the operator of a revenge porn website in what the state believes is the first conviction of its kind nationwide. The operator, Kevin Bollaert, was found guilty …

More: The Atlantic Online, Associated Press, Gawker, Daily Mail and Washington Post

Paul Bischoff / Tech in Asia:

Alibaba is testing drone delivery in China with a 3-day pilot program — Alibaba is now in the testing phases of delivering packages by drone, according to a post on Taobao's website (h/t 36kr). Bringing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' dream into reality, Alibaba's major online marketplace Taobao …

More: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, The Next Web, BBC, USA Today, The Daily Dot, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, Business Insider, Fortune, ValueWalk and Gizmodo

Brian Fagioli / BetaNews:

Toshiba releases super-secure Encrypted USB Flash Drive with hardware-based encryption — In a cloud-focused world, more and more people are shunning physical storage. It's hard to blame them, as cloud services are very convenient. Best of all, services like Dropbox and OneDrive store …

More: eWeek, Ubergizmo, SlashGear and Gizmodo

George Avalos / Mercury News:

Report: Silicon Valley powers to record job boom, but surge produces income gap — SAN JOSE — The Silicon Valley economy is red hot and the growth looks like it will intensify, with technology leading the employment and investment boom in the region, according to the latest Joint Venture Silicon Valley Index …

More: Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Tweets: @michellequinn and @rosenbergmerc

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