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Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo:

Mattel's $40 Google Cardboard-compatible VR View-Master 2.0, coming this fall, fixes many problems of the original — The VR View-Master 2.0 Will Be the Best Google Cardboard You Can Buy — Last year Mattel completely re-invented the View-Master by turning it into what eventually became …

More: Digital Trends, 9to5Google, The Verge, Marketing Land, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, Road to VR, The Next Web, Tech Times, Engadget and Liliputing. Tweets: @marshallk

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:

How Facebook and Google dominate digital advertising, and why other tech companies struggle — The Reality of Missing Out — When it comes to ad-supported services, pundits everywhere are fond of the adage “If you're not the customer you're the product”.

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Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch:

Tidal Tops U.S. App Store After Landing Exclusive Rights To Kanye West's New Album — After scoring exclusive streaming rights to Kanye West's new album, The Life of Pablo, Tidal has taken over the number one spot on the U.S. App Store. … The album, which went live yesterday …

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Immersion files a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple over 3D Touch, Force Touch, Taptic Engine and other haptic feedback technologies — Haptic Feedback Company Immersion Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple — Immersion, a company that develops and licenses haptic touch …

More: The Next Web, AppleInsider, O'Grady's PowerPage, TechSpot, The Tech Portal, Fone Arena, Business Insider, Network World, The Register, Business Wire, Silicon Republic, Law360, Re/code, Engadget and Good E-Reader

ABC:

Wikimedia's Knowledge Engine, a $2.4M research project to build a transparent search engine, received a $250K grant from the Knight Foundation in September — Knowledge Engine: Wikimedia Foundation takes aim at Google with $3.5m search project — Online encyclopedia Wikipedia is preparing …

More: The Next Web, The Register, WebProNews and TrustedReviews

Anthony Noto / New York Business Journal:

Web.com to acquire SMB digital marketing firm Yodle for $342M — Yodle agrees to $342M takeover offer from Web.com — New York-based Yodle Inc. has been toying with the idea of an initial public offering for almost two years. Today, it opted for M&A instead.

More: Street Fight, eWeek and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @mdudas

Biz Carson / Business Insider:

VCs interviewed at Upfront Summit concerned by cooling markets and troubled unicorns, but look to the down market to propel startups with strong business models — ‘The Great Reset’: Venture capitalists and startups have shifted from greed to fear — If the terrible headlines and stock prices …

More: Forbes

Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:

Hulu's universal Windows 10 app features live tiles and Cortana — A big part of the promise of Windows 10 is the big push for universal applications, which enable developers to write one app that'll work on PCs, phones and tablets. Hulu has embraced Microsoft's vision and is launching its universal Windows 10 application today.

More: Windows Blog, Windows Central, Business Insider, The Fire Hose, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Neowin

Ben Rosen / BuzzFeed:

How one teen and her friends use Snapchat, replying to 40 snaps in under a minute, getting scores of 100K+ in 45 days, burning tens of gigabytes of data a month — My Little Sister Taught Me How To “Snapchat Like The Teens” … TRENDING — I'm 29 years old, and I've been on Snapchat for about a year now.

More: Washington Post and Motherboard. Tweets: @katie_roof, @dshankar, @nickbilton, @profjeffjarvis, @wickedgood, @umichlsa and @marshallk

Quentin Hardy / New York Times:

AT&T CEO pitches employee education program, hoping to build a cloud computing business — Gearing Up for the Cloud, AT&T Tells Its Workers: Adapt, or Else — DALLAS — Thirty-four years ago, Kevin Stephenson got his younger brother, Randall, a job with the telephone company.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @wadhwa and @stephfierman

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Indian e-commerce firm Snapdeal raises $200M round led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan — Snapdeal Raises $200M More To Fuel Up For India's Ongoing E-Commerce Battle — Snapdeal, India's second largest e-commerce site, has pulled in $200 million in new funding via an investment led …

More: livemint.com, Business Standard, Times of India, The Economic Times, Business Standard, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, iamwire, dna, NDTV Gadgets360.com, bgr.in, YourStory.com and Firstpost

Tweets: @jonrussell, @mgsiegler and @mdudas

Thanks:@ravichandrans25

M. Mitchell Waldrop / Nature:

Semiconductor industry roadmap to abandon pursuit of Moore's law for the first time as computing becomes increasingly mobile — The chips are down for Moore's law — The semiconductor industry will soon abandon its pursuit of Moore's law. Now things could get a lot more interesting.

More: Guardian, Silicon Republic and The New Stack

Tweets: @stevesi, @natisho, @mdudas, @stevecheney, @akposthuman and @cdixon

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