Dow Jones confirms split with Mossberg and Swisher, plans to launch new tech conference  —  Wall Street Journal and All Things D Decide Not To Renew Agreement At The End Of the Year  —  For years, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal has enjoyed working with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher …

iPhone 5C and 5S go on sale with gold in short supply  —  Apple's latest iPhones are now on sale online worldwide and at retail stores across Europe and Asia, with a US retail launch scheduled for 8AM local time.  If you're looking for a gold iPhone 5S, however, you may leave the Apple Store disappointed.

iPhone 5s Teardown  —  One...Three...G...Three...G again...S!...Four...Four again!...And another S!...Five!...S!...Five?!...C!  Thankfully Apple is in the technology business, not the education business.  We can only imagine how jumbled pre-school students' ABCs and 123s would be if they were taught in Cupertino.

Yes, Apple Is Working on a Fix for the iOS 7 Lock Screen Hack  —  When it debuted Wednesday, iOS 7 brought with it a slew of bug fixes to Apple's mobile operating system, but it brought a new vulnerability as well — one that can be exploited to bypass the lock screen on iOS devices.

Pinterest begins monetization; “experimenting” with “promoted pins” from select businesses  —  Planning for the future  —  Just over a year ago, my wife and I welcomed our son into the world.  Since his first day, I've been pinning fun things we can do together …

Jony Ive: The man behind Apple's magic curtain  —  The reclusive and prolific Jony Ive, the man behind the Apple iPod, meets with USA TODAY for a rare interview about Apple's once and future mission  —  CUPERTINO, Calif. - The man who designed the iPod ponders the question with furrowed brow.

No Update on Microsoft CEO Search, but Company Divides in Five New Business Segments  —  There is one key question on the minds of Microsoft watchers: Who will be the company's next chief executive?  —  Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com  —  But, as it kicked off its first financial analyst meeting in two years …

RSA Tells Its Developer Customers: Stop Using NSA-Linked Algorithm  —  Amidst all of the confusion and concern over an encryption algorithm that may contain an NSA backdoor, RSA Security released an advisory to developer customers today noting that the algorithm is the default algorithm …

Tragedy: Amazon's First CFO and Internet Pioneer Joy Covey Dies in Bike Accident  —  Photo by Bob Williams, from Joy Covey's Facebook profile  —  I met Joy Covey in the mid-1990s, which is a very long time ago in Internet terms, on a trip I made to Seattle to visit the then-fledgling online bookseller Amazon.

Source: Twitter IPO will likely come before Thanksgiving  —  Twitter in talks to add banks to IPO, set fees: sources  —  (Reuters) - Twitter is in talks to add additional banks to its underwriting syndicate for its upcoming initial public offering and in the process of finalizing the fee structure …

Here's How YouTube's Offline Videos Will Work (Memo)  —  YouTube is getting ready to make an important change, by letting people watch the site's videos even when they're not connected to the Internet.  —  Google announced the move in a vague blog post late Tuesday night …

Google Makes Its New Flat Logo And “App Launcher” Style Nav Menu Official, Will Roll Out Over The Next Few Weeks  —  Google just got a refreshed flat logo and the black navigation bar is gone.  Earlier this morning, we reported that Google's new “App Launcher” style navigational menu was just weeks away from launch.

Google makes Quickoffice for Android and iOS free for all, bringing Microsoft Office editing to the mobile masses  —  Google today announced it is making Quickoffice free for everyone.  That means Android and iOS users can edit Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the go without paying a dime.