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December 18, 2015, 8:35 PM

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David Harris / Cargo Facts:
Sources: Amazon building its own overnight US airfreight operation, negotiating with Boeing for twenty 767 widebody freighters  —  [EXCLUSIVE] Amazon building its own overnight airfreight operation, sources say  —  Amazon.com Inc. is creating a logistics operation that will include overnight air operations …
Michael Mimoso / Threatpost:
Nandita Bose / Reuters:
Exclusive: Target in initial development of its own mobile wallet - sources  —  Target Corp is in early stages of developing its own mobile wallet, three people familiar with the matter said, signaling a potential threat to new entrants like Apple Pay a week after Wal-Mart Stores Inc announced its own plans.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Windows Phone 8.1 users won't get Windows 10 Mobile update until 2016  —  Microsoft is planning to make Windows 10 Mobile available to existing Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 users starting in early 2016, rather than this month, officials are now saying.  —  Even though Microsoft officials …
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Evernote is killing Skitch for Android, iOS, and Windows on January 22, but not Mac  —  Note-taking app company Evernote today delivered some sad news for users of the image annotation app Skitch.  The iOS, Android, and Windows versions of Skitch will be going away on January 22.
Michael Mimoso / Threatpost:
Facebook and security researcher clash over disclosure best practices and compensation over Instagram bug and researcher's further systems probing  —  Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Vulnerabilities  —  A security researcher is in a bit of a scrum with Facebook over vulnerability disclosures …
Jason Cipriani / Fortune:
BlackBerry beats expectations with Q3 loss of $89M and revenue up 12% from last quarter to $548M, optimistic Priv will break even in Q4; stock up over 11%  —  Here's Why BlackBerry Saw Its First Revenue Gain In 9 Quarters  —  BlackBerry CEO John Chen's determination to move the company away …
Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Google's Scattershot Robotics Division, Titan Drones Are Moving Into Google X  —  Google X's lab is welcoming two new moonshots into the fold: The company's assemblage of futuristic robotics projects and its unit for high-altitude satellite drones.  —  The decision to incubate …

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