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November 19, 2015, 11:15 AM
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Fortune:
Square prices IPO at $9 per share, below $11-$13 range, valuing company at $2.9B  —  Square prices IPO at just $9 per share, valued at $2.66 billion  —  Jack Dorsey's payment company disappoints.  Square, the payment technology company founded and led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey …
Wall Street Journal:
Square pays $93M penalty to investors like Rizvi Traverse, J.P. Morgan, and others, thanks to ratchet clause in its 2014 round  —  Square Pays $93 Million Penalty to Some Investors in IPO  —  Square Inc. will have to give some investors additional shares valued at $93 million …
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
Square debuts at $11.20 per share, is already trading up 32%  —  Today Square began trading at $11.20 a share on the New York Stock Exchange, up slightly from its $9 pricing last night.  The stock is currently up 32 percent from market open.  —  Square's public offering has been the subject of much discussion.
Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
On Eve of IPO, Match Group Disavows Tinder CEO Sean Rad's Disastrous Interview  —  This morning, the Internet collectively pointed and laughed at Tinder CEO Sean Rad for giving a trainwreck of an interview to the London Evening Standard.  In the article, Rad confused the definition of sodomy …
Charlotte Edwardes / London Evening Standard:
Tinder CEO Sean Rad, in an interview on the eve of Match Group's IPO, wanders into very awkward territory
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Amazon quietly turned on two-factor authentication a few weeks ago after private beta  —  It's time to secure your Amazon account with two-factor authentication  —  Relying solely on passwords to secure important accounts may be outdated, but until they're gone for good your best alternative …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Zerodium publishes hack price list: cracking an Android or Windows Phone could cost $100K, but expect to pay $500K to crack iOS  —  Here's a Spy Firm's Price List for Secret Hacker Techniques  —  The trade in the secret hacker techniques known as “zero day exploits” has long taken place in the dark …
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / The Charlotte Observer:
Operator of two sites specializing in pirated music, RockDizMusic.com and RockDizFile.com, gets three years in prison and must pay $48K restitution  —  Music piracy case sends Charlotte man to federal prison for 3 years  —  Rocky Ouprasith ran the nation's second largest illegal music file-sharing site
Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority:
Google Play Store to add ad-supported label for all apps containing ads starting in early 2016  —  Google Play Store app listings in 2016 will let users know if any app contains ads  —  Listings in the Google Play Store will soon be much more upfront about whether or not they feature advertising.
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
iFixit gives modular Fairphone 2 a rare 10 out of 10 for repairability [Updated]  —  It's bulky and its specs are almost two years old, but it's easy to pop open.  —  iFixit's teardowns are handy disassembly guides, and they're great for confirming just what hardware is included inside our gadgets …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google's Compute Engine gets Custom Machine Types to let you tailor VM RAM and virtual CPU allotments  —  Google Launches Custom Machine Types For Its Cloud Platform  —  Google launched a new way of buying virtual machines in its cloud today.  —  No matter whether you choose the Google Cloud Platform …
Lucian Constantin / PCWorld:
Google's VirusTotal adds sandbox execution support for Mac OS X apps  —  Google-owned VirusTotal starts analyzing Mac malware in a sandbox  —  The service now extracts behavioral information from scanned Mac executable files  —  VirusTotal, the most widely used online file-scanning service …
Adnan F. / SamMobile:
Samsung unveils BRITECELL camera sensor technology with enhanced sensitivity in low light, likely to ship with Galaxy S7 next year  —  Samsung reveals BRITECELL camera technology at its Investors Forum  —  At the Samsung Electronics 2015 Investors Forum the company talked …
Dan Froomkin / The Intercept:
Unencrypted smartphone likely used by Paris attacker reveals messages were sent in the clear over SMS  —  Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects  —  In the wake of the Paris attack, intelligence officials and sympathizers upset by the Edward Snowden leaks …
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Telegram cracked down on 78 ISIS-related channels in 12 languages this week

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: David Ellison has picked HBO content chief Casey Bloys to oversee streaming operations following Paramount's acquisition of WBD

Tierney Sneed / CNN:
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico ask a federal judge for a preliminary injunction to keep their White House access restored after a temporary order expires October 8

Deadline:
Disney initiates a third round of layoffs under Josh D'Amaro, sources say impacting a couple hundred staff, largely in HR and tech, smaller than prior rounds

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
India's ride-sharing company Ola raises $500M at $5B valuation to maintain its lead over Uber in the country

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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Microsoft's Connect developer event: Visual Studio now supports debugging Linux apps; Visual Studio Code is now open source; Android emulator coming soon to Mac
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