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Box reports Q3 2017 revenue of $102.8M, up 31% YoY, vs $100.6M expected, as operating loss narrows from $55M to $37.8M YoY (Katie Roof/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Report: ad tech company AppNexus has filed confidentially for an IPO, expected around Q2 2017, valuing the company between $1.5B and $2B (Avery Hartmans/Business Insider) אסף מגידש

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman apologizes for editing user comments and says the company is working to combat abuse by taking action against "toxic users" (Josh Constine/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Angry Birds maker Rovio spins off Hatch, a freemium subscription video game streaming service, which will launch an invite-only beta for Android early next year (Chris O'Brien/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

AWS debuts FPGA instances for EC2 cloud computing service, pricing TBD, for applications which typically run on GPUs such as video processing, machine learning (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Email delivery platform SendGrid raises $33 million ahead of IPO in 2017 (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Amazon debuts AWS Snowmobile, a 45 foot long container and truck capable of transporting 100PB of data securely between locations (AWS Blog) אסף מגידש

FBI gains ability to hack computers in any jurisdiction with warrant, as Senator Wyden's attempts to block changes to the criminal procedure rules failed (Dustin Volz/Reuters) אסף מגידש

Google debuts App Maker, a drag-and-drop app development platform for G Suite users, aimed at speed and ease of use (Elissa Murphy/Google) אסף מגידש

iOS email client Spark comes to the Mac for free, with Smart Inbox categorization, ability to 'snooze' messages, Quick Replies, Touch Bar Support, more (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) אסף מגידש

Amazon debuts Amazon AI developer platform, which includes an image recognition service, text-to-speech tools, and conversational app building tools (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

YouTube announces support for 4K live streams of 360-degree and standard videos; first 4K stream will be Game Awards on December 1 (YouTube Blog) אסף מגידש

Amazon announces a virtual private server service called Lightsail, starting at $5/month, aimed mainly at non-technical users (Ron Miller/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Twitter rolls out the ability to create and curate Moments on mobile, two months after web (Ken Yeung/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

New family of Android malware Gooligan, found in 86 apps in third-party marketplaces, has compromised 1M+ Android accounts, accounting for 74% of users (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Eric Schmidt-backed data science startup Civis Analytics, born out of Obama's re-election campaign, raises $22M Series A led by Drive Capital (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Apple marks World AIDS Day with App Store specials and four new (Red)-branded products; proceeds from its (Red)-branded products have raised $120M+ so far (John Paczkowski/BuzzFeed) אסף מגידש

China begins piloting a system combining records on citizens to compute a "social credit score" determining eligibility for jobs, loans, travel, and more (Jamie Condliffe/MIT Technology Review) אסף מגידש

After previewing its own video filters, Facebook cuts off Prisma's Live Video API access, says it is meant for video from sources other than smartphone cameras (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

With 50% discount, Apple Music student membership option expands to 25 additional countries (Juli Clover/MacRumors) אסף מגידש

Netflix finally lets you download shows and movies to watch offline (Chris Welch/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Twitter says it would suspend Trump's account if he violated their policies, Facebook would not, giving consideration to "the value of political discourse" (Will Oremus/Slate) אסף מגידש

GoPro to cut 15% of its workforce, or 200+ full-time positions, and shut down its entertainment division, will incur as much as $33M in restructuring costs (Selina Wang/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Trump's picks for AG Jeff Sessions and CIA director Mike Pompeo are leading domestic surveillance advocates, may reverse curbs imposed after Snowden revelations (Chris Strohm/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Office 365 adds collaboration features, including document activity notifications for Android and Windows 10 Mobile, and real-time co-authoring on PowerPoint (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott.com) אסף מגידש

Data of nearly 380K of 12M registered users of porn site xHamster are being traded online, including usernames, emails, and poorly-hashed passwords (Joseph Cox/Motherboard) אסף מגידש

Period tracking app Clue pulls in $20 million Series B from Nokia Growth Partners (Sarah Buhr/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Copyright holders asked Google to remove 1B+ allegedly infringing links in past year; Google removed more than 90% of the reported links (Ernesto/TorrentFreak) אסף מגידש

US auto regulator NHTSA details GM's semi-autonomous "Super Cruise" system that uses facial recognition tech to ensure driver is alert, raises safety concerns (David Shepardson/Reuters) אסף מגידש

Mozilla is working to patch a Firefox zero-day in the wild that is being used to unmask Tor users; vulnerability is similar to the one used by the FBI in 2013 (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Barrett Brown is released after four-plus years in prison following charges stemming from Stratfor hack, must pay $890,250 in restitution for sharing a link (Dell Cameron/The Daily Dot) אסף מגידש

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signs law criminalizing resale of tickets obtained via bots (Mary Beth Quirk/Consumerist) אסף מגידש

Yahoo quietly launches Yahoo Answers Now, an iOS app for its popular Q&A site (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Nutanix $166.8M Q1 revenue beats expectations in first earnings report since September IPO, stock down 4.05% in after hours trading (Tiernan Ray/Tech Trader Daily) אסף מגידש

Microsoft Surface Studio teardown: base is easy to open and hard drives can be replaced without disassembling the display; RAM, CPU, and GPU cannot be replaced (iFixit) אסף מגידש

Intel announces a dedicated self-driving tech unit, Automated Driving Group, in a reorganization as it partners with Mobileye and Delphi (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Google Releases 'Featured Photos' Screensaver for Mac (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors) אסף מגידש

Lyft's upfront price estimation tool now available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville, Dallas/Fort Worth, Phoenix, with more cities in "coming months" (Ken Yeung/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Amazon Web Services announces new partner programs, including VMware and Alexa programs (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Twitter brings ranked conversations to mobile devices, so replies with higher engagement and from accounts you follow will show up first (Casey Newton/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Jolla's Sailfish OS now certified as Russian government's first 'Android alternative' (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

SwiftKey for Android updated with clipboard, shortcuts for phrases, and incognito mode (SwiftKey Blog) אסף מגידש

Facebook launches Messenger-based platform for HTML5 games, played in message threads; 17 games available at launch, including Pac-Man, Space Invaders (Josh Constine/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

UK's Investigatory Powers bill becomes law, mandates everyone's browsing histories be stored and available to police, as well as several government agencies (Alan Travis/The Guardian) אסף מגידש

Canada begins testing self-driving cars in Ontario with partners BlackBerry QNX, University of Waterloo, and Erwin Hymer Group (Susan Noakes/CBC News) אסף מגידש

Uber defends its business model as a digital platform, not a transportation service, in landmark case in EU's highest court (Mark Scott/New York Times) אסף מגידש

Instagram will now inform users, just like Snapchat, when a screenshot of their private Instagram Direct message is taken (Ashley Carman/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Report: Cyber Monday was the biggest online shopping day in US history with $3.39B in sales, up 10.2% YoY; mobile revenue was 35% of sales, up 48% YoY at $1.19B (Steve Ranger/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Sources: Amazon developing premium Echo-like speaker with a 7-inch touchscreen and high-grade speakers, to be announced as soon as Q1 2017 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

German officials demand further action from Facebook against hate speech posts, after it took 48 hours and a social media outcry to remove an anti-semitic post (New York Times) אסף מגידש