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November 4, 2015, 1:50 PM

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BBC:
Proposed new UK surveillance bill requires ISPs to store which sites users visit for a year  —  May unveils plan to store web browsing  —  Internet firms will have to store data on what people access online for a year, under new surveillance law plans.  —  At the same time …
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
Sources: Jet.com is close to closing $500M+ round led by Fidelity, at a pre-money valuation of $1B  —  Jet.com raises $500 million from Fidelity  —  Jet.com, the ambitious e-commerce startup taking on Amazon, has raised a $500 million round of venture capital led by Fidelity, according to people familiar with the company.
Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:
Microsoft and Red Hat Team Up to Offer Linux on Azure Cloud  —  Microsoft said today that it will offer Red Hat's version of the open source Linux operating system on its Azure cloud computing platform.  —  The alliance, which will be detailed in a webcast later today …
Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:
Prop.  F: Voters reject measure to restrict Airbnb rentals  —  San Francisco voters were poised Tuesday night to hand a decisive victory to Airbnb and city residents who want to turn their homes into vacation rentals.  Proposition F, a measure to curb short-term rentals drastically …
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Bitcoin economy: price is at highest level of the year, transaction volume increasing, becoming more international, growing number of Bitcoin ATMs  —  The growing Bitcoin economy, in 5 charts  —  Bitcoin hasn't received the kind of hype in 2015 that it has in previous years.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft begins accepting signups for Cortana for iOS beta in US and China  —  Microsoft opens up its Cortana for iPhone beta  —  Microsoft is getting ready to let iPhone users test a version of Cortana for iOS.  The software maker has been steadily testing the app over the past six months internally …
Manish Singh / NDTV Gadgets360.com:
10 Months and 2 Million Downloads Later, Vivaldi Browser Hits Beta  —  Perhaps the world could do without a new Web browser.  Google's Chrome, despite being a resource and battery hog, manages to get the work done for most, while Windows 10 continues to help Microsoft Edge be the default browser for millions of users.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
MPAA claims responsibility for shutting down popcorntime.io and torrent site YTS  —  MPAA Touts Big Legal Success Against Popcorn Time  —  The studios trade association has scored injunctions in Canada and New Zealand over PopcornTime.io and the torrent outfit YTS.
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch:
Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley Leaves Company Because Of Diversity Issues  —  Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley, the only black engineer in a leadership position at Twitter, just publicly announced that he has left the company.  In his post, he says his reasons for leaving …

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