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Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Beats Music confirms it will fade out on November 30th — Now that Apple Music is firmly in place (and even on Android) it's time for Beats Music to go. An app update back in June greased the skids and an updated support page — as well as emails going out to Sonos users reiterating …

More: Beats Music Support, International Business Times, Re/code, Fortune, TechCrunch, Macworld, Business Insider, bizjournals, MacRumors, Pocketnow, CNET, The Next Web, Gizmodo, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @pkafka

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Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Inside Sequoia's Scouts, and a list of the program's 70+ well-connected entrepreneurs and academics using capital from Sequoia to fund startups — Secretive, Sprawling Network of ‘Scouts’ Spreads Money Through Silicon Valley — Sequoia Capital has funneled millions of dollars to scores …

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft launches Office Insider program for Office 365 subscribers looking to test the suite's newest features, debuts new PowerPoint Designer, Morph features — Microsoft launches Office Insider program, rolls out new PowerPoint Designer and Morph features

More: Office Blogs, ZDNet, PCWorld, GeekWire, The Next Web, Engadget and The Verge

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections — Soon, you may see a warning in Gmail that tells you that an email has arrived over an unencrypted connection. — Gmail already defaults to using HTTPS for the connections between your browser and its servers …

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Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Amazon launches Pantry to deliver groceries in the UK, but only to Prime members — Amazon has launched a new delivery option for Prime subscribers in the UK today called Amazon Pantry. — The service, which follows a limited trial of AmazonFresh, has around 4,000 items available at launch …

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Office Blogs:

OneNote can now record audio on iOS, embed videos on Windows, attach files on OneNote Online, more — OneNote in November—Embed video, record audio, insert files and more — It's been a big month for OneNote with updates across our web app to mobile devices to desktop.

More: Android Police, ZDNet, Engadget, Phandroid, MobileSyrup.com, SiliconANGLE, Macworld, WinBeta, Droid Life, SlashGear, The Next Web, The Fire Hose and VentureBeat

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:

Watchmaker Fossil Group to acquire Misfit for $260M; Fossil expects to incorporate Misfit's tech into traditional watches as soon as 2016 — Fossil Group to Buy Misfit for $260 Million … Watchmaker Fossil Group Inc. has agreed to acquire startup Misfit Inc., a maker of wearable fitness trackers, for $260 million.

Katie Hafner / New York Times:

Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies at 92 — Gene Amdahl, a trailblazer in the design of IBM's mainframe computers, which became the central nervous system for businesses large and small throughout the world, died Tuesday night at a nursing home in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 92.

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Ian Kar / Quartz:

Sources: Apple partnering with banks for peer-to-peer payment program to avoid money transmitter licenses, may use iMessage for money transfer — Apple is making a grab for Venmo's turf and might use iMessage to do it — Apple is wading into Venmo's main business, betting …

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iPad Pro's Lightning Port Supports USB 3.0 Transfer Speeds, New Adapters in the Works — Apple's larger-screened iPad Pro includes a Lightning port that's capable of supporting USB 3.0 speeds, according to both an iFixit teardown and several sources that have spoken with Apple.

More: PCMag Australia Feed, MacRumors, The iPad for Photographers, AppleInsider, Tech Times, Michael Tsai, iPhone Hacks, Ubergizmo and iDownloadBlog.com

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Zenefits falling short of revenue targets, having hit only $45M of its $100M 2015 revenue goal by August, freezes hiring in some departments — Highly Valued Startup Zenefits Runs Into Turbulence — Health-insurance broker, once valued at $4.5 billion, is falling short of revenue targets, cutting costs

More: bizjournals and Business Insider. Tweets: @wsjd, @mdudas, @rolfewinkler, @vielmetti and @scottmaustin

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

First Alert debuts Onelink, the first HomeKit-enabled smoke detector, available now from $109 — Apple's HomeKit now has a smoke detector to compete with Nest Protect — Nest is owned by Google, which means there's a chance its products will never integrate with Apple's smart home platform.

More: TechHive and MacRumors

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Digg Raises $4M Series A From Betaworks Backer Digital Garage — More interesting developments for Digg, the Internet curation site that was founded way back in 2004 but was acquired and relaunched by Betaworks in 2012. The site has announced a “Series A” of $4 million, and it's named former COO Gary Liu as its new CEO.

More: VentureBeat

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Hulu in early talks to sell stake to Time Warner in deal valuing Hulu at $5B-$6B; Time Warner would invest cash, commit to license content — Hulu in Talks to Sell Stake to Time Warner — Deal could help streaming-video service compete with Netflix, Amazon

More: Business Insider, VideoNuze Analysis, DSLreports, CNNMoney, Tubefilter, Seeking Alpha, Fortune, US News, USA Today, The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web, Los Angeles Business … and Deadline

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

Hands-on with Gogo's 2Ku in-flight satellite internet service that incorporates new antenna tech to deliver speeds of up to 70 Mbps for each aircraft — I just streamed Netflix, YouTube, and Spotify on a plane — all at once — Gogo, the company that's become synonomous with in-flight Wi-Fi …

More: Engadget and Engadget

Greg Hartrell / Official Android Blog:

Google Play Books improves comic book reading by adding vertical scrolling mode, curated pages for discovery, on Android in coming days, iOS soon — Solving the age-old question: Batman or Superman? — It's a multi-generational debate—are you team Batman or team Superman?

More: Android Authority, PhoneDog.com, Thurrott.com, Fone Arena, Android Police, Ubergizmo, Tech Times, Digital Trends, Re/code, Phandroid, Phandroid, Droid Life, The Next Web, Android Central, PCMag Australia Feed, 9to5Google, TechCrunch and The Digital Reader

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