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October 7, 2013, 12:40 PM

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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 …
Matt Chaban / NY Daily News:
New York Attorney General subpoenas Airbnb for data on thousands of local hosts  —  Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hits AirBnB with subpoena for user data  —  State is concerned about hotel occupancy taxes and possible evictions by greedy building owners.
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.
Rich McCormick / The Verge:
HTC's One Max could have a fingerprint scanner  —  Leaked images of HTC's upcoming One Max show what appears to be a fingerprint scanner.  The pictures come from Chinese social network Sina Weibo, and show the huge HTC One Max with the back of its case removed.
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.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
SEC Clears Apple's Tax Strategy  —  Four months after opening its review of Apple's finances, the Securities and Exchange Commission has closed it, having found nothing untoward about the company's handling of its overseas cash and related tax policies.  —  In a September letter to Apple …
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.
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