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Matt Leske / YouTube Blog:
YouTube introduces YouTube Red, which combines ad-free viewing and Google Play Music subscription  —  Meet YouTube Red, the ultimate YouTube experience  —  For years, YouTube's fans have been telling us they want more—more choice when watching their favorite content …
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Inside YouTube's new $10 per month subscription service YouTube Red, which removes ads, allows offline viewing, more, available October 28 in US, soon globally  —  Red Dawn  —  A family is gathered around the dinner table: Dad and the kids have spaghetti on their plates, Mom is standing, serving spoon in hand.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
YouTube confirms any partner creator who earns cut of ad revenue but does not agree to YouTube Red revenue share deal will have videos hidden  —  YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don't Sign Its Red Subscription Deal  —  YouTube made its top video creators an offer …
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Twitter launches a tweet composer to show tweet previews inside other apps  —  Twitter today announced the release of a new tweet composer for its TwitterKit package of mobile app development tools.  The tool will allow mobile app developers to show users previews of tweets they write from within third-party apps.
More: TechCrunch
Todd Sherman / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter Polls start rolling out to everyone, remain live for 24 hours, votes remain private  —  Introducing Twitter Polls  —  We're excited to share that in the coming days, everyone will be able to create polls on Twitter.  And, with just a couple of taps, people can weigh in on all the topics they care about.
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple releases iOS 9.1, bringing Apple News to UK, Live Photos improvements, new emoji  —  Apple Releases iOS 9.1 With New Emoji, Live Photos Improvements  —  Apple today released iOS 9.1 to the public, marking the first major update to the iOS 9 operating system that launched in September.
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple adds Find My Friends app to iCloud on the web  —  Following a slew of updates for iOS, OS X, tvOS and watchOS, Apple has also given its web portal iCloud.com some love too.  Last week, Apple took iWork for iCloud out of beta.  Today, Apple has added the Find My Friends web app to the site.
Walt Mossberg / Re/code:
Aaron Sorkin's movie isn't about the Steve Jobs I knew, and ignores the best part of Jobs' career  —  Mossberg: The Steve Jobs I Knew Isn't in This Movie  —  In 1941, the brilliant writer and director Orson Welles made a movie loosely based on a famous, powerful, contemporary American business figure …
Lauren Pollock / Wall Street Journal:
Western Digital to Buy SanDisk for $19 Billion  —  Western Digital is facing challenges to its core hard-disk-drive businesses from flash and solid-state drives  —  Western Digital Corp. agreed to buy SanDisk Corp. for about $19 billion in cash and stock, a deal that positions the company …
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Surface Book review: really does replace your laptop, great screen, keyboard, and trackpad, but can get very expensive  —  Surface Book review: The hybrid that really does replace your laptop  —  It ain't cheap, but it is pretty.  —  This is the machine that I've wanted Microsoft …
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Apple, Dropbox, Yelp, reddit, Twitter, Wikimedia, join Google, Facebook, and Yahoo in voicing opposition to current CISA proposal days before vote  —  Apple says it's against a key cybersecurity bill, days before a crucial vote  —  Apple said Tuesday that it opposes a controversial cybersecurity bill that …
Chris Hall / Pocket-lint:
Fossil unveils Q Founder Android Wear watch coming late 2015 for $275; Q Grant watch, Q Reveler and Q Dreamer fitness trackers will be available Oct. 25  —  Fossil details Q family of connected accessories, including Q Founder Android Wear watch  —  Fossil has finally shed some light …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft Windows veteran Joe Belfiore taking one year off to spend time with family, will return to role after year out  —  Microsoft Windows veteran Joe Belfiore takes a year leave-of-absence  —  Joe Belfiore, one of Microsoft's key lieutenants on Windows, is taking a year's break.  What gives?

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