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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 …

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Politico:

NSA surveillance panel temporarily shut down after staff is furloughed — 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 …

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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.

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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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Wall Street Journal:

Software, Design Defects Cripple Health-Care Website — Government Acknowledges It Needs to Fix Design and Software Problems — Six days into the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the new health-care law, the federal government acknowledged for the first time Sunday it needed …

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter's lucrative data mining business earned $47.5m in 2012 — Twitter's Data Business Proves Lucrative — Twitter Disclosed It Earned $47.5 Million From Selling Off Information It Gathers — In its IPO filing Thursday, Twitter Inc. disclosed how much the microblogging platform earned …

More: Venture Capital Dispatch, Softpedia News and MoneyBeat

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @spencerante, @sameerpatel and @yoreekoh

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.

More: Skift

Reed Albergotti / Digits:

Facebook to expand TV data report initiative to networks in eight countries — Facebook Adds TV Partners Overseas — The rivalry between Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. over social conversations around television shows is moving overseas. — Facebook Monday will disclose plans …

More: AllFacebook, GigaOM, The Next Web, VatorNews, memeburn and Facebook. Tweets: @vanitakohlik. See also Mediagazer

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