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Guardian:
Reported Bitcoin “founder” Craig Wright's home raided by Australian Federal Police in relation to Australian Tax Office investigation  —  Reported ‘Bitcoin founder’ Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police  —  Exclusive: Police search home belonging to Australian entrepreneur …
Gizmodo:
Leaked documents, corroborating interviews point to two likely Bitcoin creators: Australian Craig Wright and deceased US computer forensics expert Dave Kleiman  —  This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin  —  A monthlong Gizmodo investigation has uncovered compelling …
Wired:
Blog posts and unverified leaked documents suggest eccentric 44-year-old Australian entrepreneur Craig Steven Wright is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Yahoo scraps Alibaba spinoff plan, will spin off core assets including stake in Yahoo Japan; Max Levchin resigns from board  —  Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo said on Wednesday that it had dropped a plan to spin off its $31 billion stake in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company.
Bloomberg Business:
CBS CEO Les Moonves says Apple puts live TV plans on hold; source says media firms want more money for their programming  —  Apple Said to Suspend Effort to Develop Live TV Service  —  Focus instead will be on App Store as platform for others  —  Media companies resist channel package at $30 to $40 a month
Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:
HTC delays Vive VR launch until April, plans to make 7K dev kits available in early 2016  —  HTC officially delays Vive virtual reality system launch to April 2016  —  Says “an additional 7,000” dev kits will ship to creators at the “start” of 2016.  —  Earlier this year …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google Play Music adds family plan allowing six family members to stream simultaneously for $15 per month, extends to YouTube Red  —  Google Play Music launches $14.99 family plan for up to six people  —  Google's finally rolling out the six-person, $14.99 family plan for Google Play Music that it first teased over two months ago.
Ben Brown / Official Google Blog:
Google offers three interchangeable shells to customize TP-LINK OnHub routers, for $29-$39  —  Make your home Internet look like your home with OnHub  —  Chances are, somewhere in your home, there's a tangled mess of wires and blinking lights that make your Wi-Fi work.
Michael Mimoso / Threatpost:
Microsoft patches 71 flaws, two for Office and Windows kernel vulnerabilities currently under attack, warns of leaked Xbox Live certificate  —  Microsoft Patches 71 Flaws, Two Under Attack; Warns of Leaked XBox Live Cert  —  Forgive your local Windows admin if they're a little shy on holiday cheer in the coming days.
Jessi Hempel / Wired:
Uber spins out UberEATS from main app into standalone app, to let you order food in Toronto  —  The UberEATS Standalone App Has Nothing to Do With Rides  —  Today Uber launches its first standalone app that isn't about getting a ride.  Called UberEATS, it's a new food-ordering app that will be available in Toronto.
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Uber's first desktop app launches on Windows 10 — sadly still requires a phone  —  Uber today launched its first desktop app.  Windows 10 users can now hail a ride using the on-demand car service from their computer.  —  But the app is dead on arrival because the experience is seriously flawed from the get-go.

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From Mediagazer

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian streaming service JioCinema launches an ad-free subscription plan with the lowest tier costing $0.35/month for a single device, undercutting rivals

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Warner Music Group sells Uproxx, HipHopDX, and other assets to a new company, Uproxx Studios, formed by Jarret Myer, Rich Antoniello, and will.i.am

New York Times:
Sources detail NPR's struggles with declining audiences, falling sponsorship revenue, internal conflicts over turning things around, and a diversity push

More News

Betsy Cameron / Facebook:
Facebook's most talked-about global topics in 2015 include US Presidential Election, Paris attacks, refugee crisis, nepal earthquake, Greek debt crisis
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Airbnb dethrones Google in Glassdoor's top 50 places to work 2016, Google now 8th, behind Facebook, LinkedIn, Hubspot

Earlier Picks

Martim Lobao / Android Police:
Instagram rolls out 3D-Touch-like feature for Android, enlarges thumbnail images for preview with long press
Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Spotify to test allowing some musicians to temporarily withhold music from ad-supported version of the service
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple News app updates with a “Top Stories” tab curated by editors and adds Comscore integration so publishers can get credit from advertisers for traffic
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