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September 13, 2013, 10:25 AM

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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.
Ben Popper / The Verge:
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?
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.
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.
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.
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: iPhone in Canada Blog and ZDNetTweets: @nerdtalker
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.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Sunsets Credits, Transitions To Local Currencies To Boost International Payments  —  Facebook launched its virtual currency Credits in June 2011 to simplify payments.  In reality, Credits caused headaches for international payments due to fluctuating exchange rates.
More: CNET and The Next Web
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 …

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