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December 6, 2017, 2:50 PM

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Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors:
Amazon Prime Video app launches on Apple TV in 100+ countries, supports 4K HDR and Apple's centralized TV app  —  It's been six months since Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that Amazon Prime Video would be coming to Apple TV later this year, and now that app is officially beginning to roll …
Kara Swisher / Recode:
Mozilla countersues Yahoo Holdings and Oath, after they filed against Mozilla last week for switching the default search engine from Yahoo to Google  —  A suit and countersuit are related to a problematic agreement that former CEO Marissa Mayer crafted (badly).
Michael McWhertor / Polygon:
Steam says it's ending support for bitcoin payments due to “high fees and volatility”, after announcing support via Bitpay in April 2016  —  “It has become untenable to support Bitcoin as a payment option”  —  Valve is ending support for Steam purchases made with bitcoin …
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Microsoft rolls out its collaborative Whiteboard app for Windows 10 users, soliciting feedback while it is in preview  —  When it announced the new Surface Pro a few months back, Microsoft also used the opportunity to preview Whiteboard, a Windows 10 app designed to offer creative and business collaboration across devices.
Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast:
A look at “niche memes”, personal clip art diaries teens post on Instagram to close-knit followers, a trend that took off when they returned to school this fall  —  Almost every day, while she's waiting for soccer practice to begin or for her mom to pick her up from school …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Facebook tops Glassdoor's list of best places to work for in the US in 2018, as rated by employees, topping the list five times in the last ten years  —  Career website Glassdoor today released its 10th annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 100 best companies to work for in the coming year.
David Ruddock / Android Police:
Qualcomm details Snapdragon 845 chipset, the successor to 835, saying it has 30% faster graphics performance, better power efficiency, HDR capability, more  —  Qualcomm detailed its next-generation chipset, the Snapdragon 845, at a press conference in Hawaii this morning.

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