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October 20, 2015, 11:15 AM
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Wall Street Journal:
Sky-high valuations begin to backfire on some Silicon Valley companies trying to raise more money or go public  —  Tech Startups Feel an IPO Chill  —  Sky-high valuations are starting to backfire on some Silicon Valley companies that are trying to raise more money or go public; Dropbox stalls
Charles Arthur / The Overspill:
Google's growing problem: 50% of people do zero searches per day on mobile  —  Amit Singhal in 2011 showing a comparison of search volumes from mobile and “early desktop years”.  Photo by Niall Kennedy on Flickr.  —  Amit Singhal, Google's head of search, let slip a couple of interesting statistics …
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Tim Cook says new Apple TV coming next week, reveals 6.5m paying Apple Music subscribers  —  As expected, Tim Cook today took the stage at the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference for an interview.  During his time on stage, Cook discussed a variety of topics, ranging from iPhone to Apple Watch and to Apple Music.
New York Post:
FBI and other federal agencies are investigating a teen who claims to have hacked CIA director's AOL account, which contained work-related documents  —  Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton's email scandal didn't stop the head of the CIA from using …
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Browser Popcorn brings Popcorn Time to the web, streams movies directly in browser  —  ‘Netflix for pirates’ now streams movies directly to your web browser  —  An app released earlier this year called Popcorn Time caused quite a stir.  Whereas downloading stolen movies with torrent applications …
Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web:
Mozilla-backed Let's Encrypt says its free HTTPS certificates are now trusted by all major browsers  —  Let's Encrypt is one step closer to offering free HTTPS certificates to everyone  —  Let's Encrypt has announced that its free security certificates are now trusted by all major browsers …
Dan Levine / Reuters:
Ex-DEA agent Carl Force sentenced to 78 months for Bitcoin theft during Silk Road investigation  —  Ex-U.S. agent gets over six years for bitcoin theft in Silk Road probe  —  A former U.S. federal agent was sentenced to 78 months in prison on Monday for stealing bitcoins during …
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
New Android phones and tablets that ship with Marshmallow should enable full-disk encryption by default if their AES crypto perfomance exceeds 50 MiB/s  —  Android 6.0 re-implements mandatory storage encryption for new devices  —  As long as you meet the minimum speed requirements, that is.
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Google Invests In Mobvoi, Its Android Wear Partner In China  —  Google's services are not available in China, but that isn't stopping it from making a significant investment in a company based on Chinese soil.  The U.S. search giant is backing Mobvoi, a three-year-old company specializing …
Jaime Novoa / Novobrief:
Investment in Spanish startups to surpass $500M in 2015 for the first time ever  —  As we've mentioned several times over the past few months, 2015 is poised to be a record year for the Spanish startup ecosystem.  And now we have data to back this claim.  —  According to data compiled by Novobrief …
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Wall Street Journal:
Brendan Carr says ABC is running a “campaign of misinformation” about the FCC inquiry into The View and the agency isn't trying to control the show's guests

Washington Post:
Jacqueline Smith, the Stars and Stripes ombudsman who was fired in April, sues the Pentagon, claiming the government violated her First Amendment rights

Richard Raycraft / CBC News:
CBC/Radio-Canada becomes a full member of the European Broadcasting Union and is now eligible for Eurovision; the CBC won't yet say whether it will participate

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Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
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Katie Collins / CNET:
China hack attacks on US continue despite commercial spying pact, security firm says
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Goes After Microsoft And IBM By Making Google Apps For Work Free While Customers Still …
Dean Baquet / Medium:
NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet responds to Jay Carney's post, says that the former Amazon employee he said left over allegations of fraud disputes the claim
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P review: true flagships with little-to-no compromise, all other Android devices are second class citizens
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