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November 20, 2015, 8:05 AM

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David Ruddock / Android Police:
LG cancels rollout of Urbane 2nd Edition LTE smartwatch due to hardware issues, says uncertain if it will launch at all  —  LG Cancels The Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE Indefinitely Because Of Unspecified, Complex “Hardware Issue”  —  LG reached out to us moments ago with news …
Kelly Winters / Facebook:
Facebook tests tools that offer to hide ex-partners from you and limit the content they can see after breakup  —  Improving the Experience When Relationships End  —  Community Support FYI is a new series of blog posts about how we work to keep the Facebook community safe, supported and connected.
Leena Rao / Fortune:
Square Closes At $13.07 Per Share, Up 45% From IPO Price  —  Square's shares pop in first day of trading.  Shares of Square, the payment technology company founded and led by Twitter TWTR 1.60% CEO Jack Dorsey, closed at $13.07 per share, up 45% from its initial pricing of $9 per share Square …
Matt Levine / Bloomberg View:
Lessons from Square's IPO: all investors made at least a 20% return, the ratchet worked perfectly, and valuing companies is hard  —  Square Turns the IPO Corner  —  The initial public offering of Square was supposed to be a sign of doom for unicorns, a proof that you can't make money investing in pre-IPO tech companies any more.
Miguel Helft / Forbes:
As Yahoo's core business declines, current and former executives criticize Marissa Mayer's leadership  —  The Last Days Of Marissa Mayer?  —  The late October offsite meeting for more than 120 of Yahoo's top executives at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco started well enough.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google appoints Diane Greene, co-founder and former CEO of VMWare, as head of all cloud businesses as it acquires her company, Bebop  —  Google Picks Diane Greene to Expand Its Cloud Business  —  Google is playing catch-up in the booming cloud computing market, well behind the early leader, Amazon.
Patrick Wynn / Official Google for Work Blog:
Google Hangouts rolls out ability to add users without a Google account to video calls by sending an invitation link  —  Meetings made simple with guest access  —  Joining a meeting should be as easy as walking into a room.  That should be the case whether you're meeting in person, or face-to-face over video.
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Sources: Adele's new album, 25, won't be available on streaming services when it's released on Friday; Adele involved in decision  —  Adele Is Said to Reject Streaming for ‘25’  —  For weeks, the music industry has been awaiting the release of Adele's new album, “25,” with a mixture of excitement and anxiety.
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
LG partners with local banks to launch its own mobile payment service in South Korea, no word on international plans yet  —  LG Is Developing Its Own Mobile Payment Service  —  Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay... there'll one more to add to the list soon.

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