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September 13, 2013, 9:05 AM

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We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.

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DealBook:

A Short Post, a Big Splash: #TwitterIPO — Twitter, which began as a side project in a small but failing start-up seven years ago and grew into one of the world's largest platforms for public conversation, is about to take its biggest step yet into maturity: selling stock to the public.

More: Forbes and WebProNews. Tweets: @nytimes and @binarybits

AllThingsD:

Twitter's internal 2013 growth target was 400m users, sources say it now has 240m — Twitter User Growth Slower Than Internal Goals — Is Twitter growing fast enough? — This seems like an odd question to ask, since the company has just told the world it's getting ready to go public.

Tweets: @allthingsd. See also Mediagazer

Russ Garland / Venture Capital Dispatch:

Twitter IPO: Union Square Ventures, Jeff Bezos Firm Among Those That Stand to Gain

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Twitter files for “confidential” IPO, suggesting its annual revenue is less than $1 billion

More: Forbes, TechCrunch, Mercury News, Business Insider, Hollywood Reporter, Sky News, NBCNews, NPR, Betabeat, Engadget, DealBook, ValueWalk and internetretailer.com

Tweets: @jyarow and @inafried

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Bloomberg:

Goldman Sachs said to be lead underwriter for Twitter IPO

More: USA Today, AllFacebook, SocialTimes, Reuters, The Huffington Post, Washington Post and bizjournals

Tweets: @eghosao and @levie

GigaOM:

Twitter makes IPO plans official: files confidential S-1, but expected value is about $14B

More: Digits, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, Music Ally, eWeek, Mashable, San Francisco Chronicle and Valleywag. Tweets: @mattbuchanan. See also Mediagazer

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Twitter intends to IPO sooner than expected: in 2013

More: Digits, VentureBeat and Mashable

Tweets: @pkafka, @danprimack and @pkafka

Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times:

Like iPhone 5S, next Galaxy smartphone will be 64-bit, Samsung's mobile chief tells partners — Samsung to expand China business — A Samsung Electronics executive said Wednesday the firm will expand its smartphone business in China to better compete with Apple in the world's largest smartphone market.

More: AllThingsD, iPhone Hacks, AndroidHeadlines.com, The Verge, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, BBC, Guardian, ValueWalk, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, IntoMobile, TechSpot, Gotta Be Mobile, Droid Life and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @nerdtalker

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

iPhone 5C pre-orders available from Apple, carriers, and retailers — Pre-order your iPhone 5Cs now! Or don't. No one's forcing you either way. — As it promised during Tuesday's announcement, Apple has officially begun accepting pre-orders for the sort-of-new iPhone 5C in its online store as of 12:01am PT today.

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Roger Cheng / CNET:

T-Mobile promo on new iPhones: iPhone 5s for $99 down, 5c for $0 down

More: AllThingsD, AndroidHeadlines.com and BGR

Lance Whitney / CNET:

Walmart to sell iPhone 5C for $79, iPhone 5S for $189

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Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:

Google Founders' Jet Fleet Loses a Pentagon Fuel Perk — Questions Raised about Founders Use for Non-Government Flights — Google Inc. founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have to dig deeper to operate their fleet of private jets, after the U.S. Department of Defense ended …

More: Business Insider, SlashGear, Softpedia News and Digits. Tweets: @wsj

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft launches iPad trade-in promotion — Summary: Microsoft is launching a limited-time iPad trade-in offer in its brick-and-mortar Microsoft Stores. — Microsoft is kicking up a notch its competition with Apple's iPad with a new, limited time trade-in offer.

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Verge, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, Redmond Pie, newlaunches.com, Electronista, AppleTell, Engadget, SlashGear, Gearburn, I4U News, TUAW, App Advice, IntoMobile, TechCrunch, BGR, Pocket-lint and AllThingsD

Tweets: @fxshaw and @daringfirefeed

Steve Kafka / Outlook Blog:

Outlook.com now has IMAP — As we shared on Reddit, we're happy to announce the immediate availability of IMAP (and OAuth) for Outlook.com. Outlook.com already supports the industry's best email connectivity with Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), which is available on the majority of smartphones and tablets …

More: InfoWorld, SlashGear, TechSpot, Windows Phone Central, I4U News, TechCrunch, The Register, PC World, BetaNews, Engadget, iMore, ZDNet, The Verge, SuperSite for Windows and The Next Web. Tweets: @davegirouard

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Creative Lab Launches Coder To Turn Raspberry Pi Into A Basic Web Development Platform — Coder, a new project that's coming out of Google's Creative Lab, is an open source tool that allows you to easily turn a Raspberry Pi into a basic web server with a web-based development environment.

More: ZDNet, ResearchBuzz, Engadget, Ubergizmo and Google Developers Blog

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 with Mail, WiFi, screensaver fixes — Following an extensive period of betas for developers, Apple has publicly released OS X 10.8.5. The update is available from the Mac App Store Software's Update section and is recommended for all users on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4.

More: Apple, AppleInsider, MacRumors, ZDNet, iMore, Macworld, Gizmodo and The Next Web

Sven Grundberg / Wall Street Journal:

Huawei to Keep Making Smartphones Running Windows Phone — Comments Come as Microsoft Set to Produce Own Hardware After Buying Nokia Handset Business — STOCKHOLM—A Huawei Technologies Co. executive said Thursday the Chinese company will continue to make smartphones running …

More: BGR, The Next Web, PhoneArena and Softpedia News

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iPhone's M7 motion processor to integrate with Maps as Apple develops indoor mapping, public transit — Besides the main 64-bit A7 processor in the new iPhone 5s, Apple has included a dedicated motion co-processor called the M7. The chip powers many of the sensor technologies in the iPhone …

More: BetaNews, TechHive, TUAW, Softpedia News, Yahoo! News, iDownloadBlog.com, Network World, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, GigaOM, Apple Bitch, App Advice, iClarified and Pocket-lint

Sarah McBride / Reuters:

Insight: In Silicon Valley start-up world, pedigree counts — (Reuters) - When asked to name the most notable rags-to-riches entrepreneur that his firm has funded, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz doesn't hesitate: Christian Gheorghe, a Romanian immigrant who came to the United States without speaking English …

Tweets: @kenli729, @gerryshih, @lisamcintire, @weberwest and @millikenreuters

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

Some Thoughts about the iPhone 5S Camera Improvements — One of the big improvements that comes with the iPhone 5S is a new camera system, with a faster aperture for more light throughput, bigger 8 MP sensor with correspondingly bigger pixels, dual LED color temperature matching flash, and improved ISP.

More: ZDNet. Tweets: @nerdtalker

Eliot Van Buskirk / Evolver.fm:

Twitter Releases Spotify App — Remember when Twitter bought We Are Hunted, whose creators then built Twitter's #music app, which was initially super popular in part due to its cool design and the fact that everybody uses Twitter, but then it ran into a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem?

More: Music Ally, CNET, TechRadar.com, Engadget, The Next Web and Pocket-lint

Edward Moyer / CNET:

NSA disguised itself as Google to spy, say reports — If a recently leaked document is any indication, the US National Security Agency — or its UK counterpart — appears to have put on a Google suit to gather intelligence. — Here's one of the latest tidbits on the NSA surveillance scandal …

More: Mother Jones, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Silicon Valley Watcher and Schneier on Security. Tweets: @leashless

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