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October 7, 2013, 10:25 AM

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Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
LG Display unveils curved handset display for November launch  —  (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc's (066570.KS) display unit said on Monday it will start mass production of curved smartphone displays as the South Korean phone maker plans to launch a smartphone with the new screens next month …
Politico:
NSA surveillance panel shut down  —  Surveillance panel shut down  —  A panel President Barack Obama set up in August to assess the government's use of surveillance technologies hit some turbulence related to the government shutdown last week and found itself effectively frozen on Friday …
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
European Union considering tougher cloud privacy rules after surveillance disclosures  —  Europe Aims to Regulate the Cloud  —  LONDON — The words “cloud computing” never appeared in a 119-page digital privacy regulation introduced in Europe last year.  —  They do now.
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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Urban Compass, A 5-Month-Old Startup Worth $150 Million, Will Help New Yorkers Buy — As Well As Rent — Homes  —  Ori Allon's young startup, Urban Compass, has found early traction helping New Yorkers rent apartments.  Soon, Urban Compass will help them buy apartments too.
Wall Street Journal:
Nielsen Twitter TV Rating arrives Monday, shows gap between Twitter and mass-market popularity  —  Tweets Provide New Way to Gauge TV Audiences  —  Data Show Differences Between Social-Media Service's Users, Mass-Market Viewers  —  CBS Corp.'s “The Big Bang Theory” and “NCIS” …
Max Blau / Mashable:
How Spotify Engineered the New Music Economy  —  Steve Cooper didn't expect much from Spotify.  —  When the New York-based band Spirit Animal released “The Black Jack White” last spring, the band's frontman didn't have high hopes about the streaming music service.
David Carr / New York Times:
Using Twitter, Carl Icahn can move markets  —  Using Twitter to Move the Markets  —  Last week, while everyone was wondering what Twitter is worth after the unveiling of its I.P.O., I spent some time on a little different math.  How much could a single post on Twitter be worth?  —  How about $1 billion?
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Pinterest Or Pintrips?  Pinterest Files A Trademark Infringement Suit Against Travel Planning Startup  —  Pinterest has made a point of discouraging the many social media companies that riff on Pinterest in their own brand names, with some of the more prominent of these going so far as to rebrand their services.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
As Twitter seeks a female board member, Costolo's sharp response to criticism on the issue attracts more criticism  —  Carrot Flop: Twitter CEO Costolo Finds Lack of Woman on Board Is No Joking Matter  —  Two weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the lack of women on the board of Twitter …

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