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Apple accepts WeChat Pay in Apple Music and App Store, following its acceptance of Alibaba's Alipay, as Apple Pay fails to make inroads in China (Pan Yue/China Money Network) אסף מגידש

Instagram adds ability to post landscape or portrait photos to albums (Paige Thelen/Instagram) אסף מגידש

Western Digital plans to buy hybrid flash storage firm Tegile Systems, which has raised $178M with last round led by Western Digital, adding 1,700+ customers (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Intel unveils Xeon-W CPUs for workstations, with up to 18 cores and peak turbo clock speed of 4.5GHz coming in Q4 (Ian Cutress/AnandTech) אסף מגידש

Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover has his own VC fund that's secured $3M+, according to SEC filing, and is part of AngelList's Angel Funds initiative (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios) אסף מגידש

On-demand app and site development startup Gigster raises $20M Series B led by Redpoint and joined by a16z and Michael Jordan (Josh Constine/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

How Intel's weekly MLB broadcast, run by a team of ~12 people, uses VR to give viewers new viewpoints within the game alongside director-led "VR-Cast" option (Joe Lemire/SportTechie) אסף מגידש

YouTube redesigns its mobile app and adds new features, including new gestures for controlling playback, rolls out desktop redesign to all, and updates logo (Ben Popper/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Tinder Gold, which shows users those who've already liked them and more, launches in the US for $4.99/month on iPhone today and on Android next month (Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed) אסף מגידש

Google debuts ARCore, a platform for Android developers to build AR apps, following Apple's ARKit, available in preview today (Adi Robertson/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Nintendo says it will shut down its Miiverse social network, launched alongside the Wii U, on November 8 (Sam Byford/The Verge) אסף מגידש

NYPD scrapping 36K Nokia-made Windows phones given to staff in last two years as part of $160M program, will replace with iPhones by end of year (Tina Moore/New York Post) אסף מגידש

Amazon now lets Echo play music across multiple rooms, debuts API to let Alexa control music on third-party connected speakers (Ashley Carman/The Verge) אסף מגידש