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October 23, 2015, 6:10 PM

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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Pandora shares fall more than 30% after company reports quarterly loss of $85M  —  Pandora investors are losing faith in its ability to compete  —  Long before there was a Spotify or an Apple Music, there was Pandora.  One of the earliest streaming music services, it was founded in 2000 …
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business:
Twitter's first Promoted Moments native advertising campaign rolls out this weekend  —  Twitter Rolls Out Advertising on New ‘Moments’ Feature  —  First Promoted Moment to run this weekend for movie ‘Creed’  —  Twitter Inc. isn't wasting any time making money from its newest feature, called Moments.
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
ESPN videos unavailable on YouTube because of rights issues related to YouTube Red launch  —  ESPN is shutting down its YouTube channels over paid subscriptions  —  Not everyone's on-board with YouTube's new paid subscription option.  In the wake of this week's announcement …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
BlackBerry launches US preorders for $699 Priv Android slider phone, to work only with AT&T and T-Mobile and ship on November 6  —  BlackBerry launches US preorders for $699 Priv Android slider phone  —  BlackBerry's Priv will start shipping in the United States on November 6th …
Matt Weinberger / Business Insider:
Microsoft restructures, changes leadership of some units within its Cloud and Enterprise division amid strong growth  —  Microsoft shuffles its cloud business to keep the good times rolling  —  Microsoft's cloud infrastructure business is leading the company's ongoing growth …
BBC:
UK ISP TalkTalk suffers massive breach, warns data of 4M customers, including credit card and bank details, could have been accessed  —  TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack  —  Police are investigating after a “significant and sustained cyber-attack” on the TalkTalk website, the UK company has confirmed.
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal:
Palantir adds $105M to latest round that closed in July and gave company a $20B valuation  —  Big Data Company Palantir Technologies Adds Independent Director  —  Founder's classmate and venture investor Adam Ross added to board  —  Palantir Technologies, Inc., the secretive Silicon …
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Amazon completes acquisition of video processing company Elemental Technologies for $296M  —  Here's how much Amazon paid to acquire Portland's Elemental Technologies … Now we know how much Amazon paid to acquire Elemental Technologies.  —  In an SEC filing posted on Friday …
Paul Lilly / Maximum PC:
Microsoft adds an entry-level $1,699 Surface Book with Nvidia GPU and a $3,199 model with 1TB solid state storage and top-end specs to its lineup  —  Microsoft Adds $200 Nvidia GPU Option to Entry Level Surface Book  —  Keeping it discrete  —  Microsoft wants to ensure there's …

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