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October 7, 2013, 8:05 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 …

Steven A. Ballmer / Microsoft:

Steve Ballmer's final shareholder letter: “We are still in the early days of our transformation” — Shareholder Letter — TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS, CUSTOMERS, PARTNERS AND EMPLOYEES: This is a unique letter for me — the last shareholder letter I will write as the CEO of the company I love.

More: The Verge, Engadget, GeekWire, BGR, ZDNet, SlashGear, Mashable and TechNet Blogs. Tweets: @thurrott

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.

More: The Airbnb Public Policy Blog, Techdirt, The Verge, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Digits, Forbes, Gizmodo, Wired, Mashable, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Gawker, Valleywag, Gothamist, ValueWalk, GigaOM, Fast Company, Skift, Betabeat, AllThingsD and TechPresident

Tweets: @ericaamerica, @alexhern and @nycjim

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Beats says its new Beats Music streaming service will launch ‘within the next few months’ in the US — Beats will launch its long-awaited music streaming service, Beats Music, “within the next few months” in the United States. Luke Wood, president and COO of the company …

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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Fox News debuts bizarre, giant tablets in its outrageous new newsroom — If you can't make the news better, make it bigger — Fox News has just unveiled a breathtakingly ridiculous newsroom, complete with novelty-sized Windows-based touchscreens, a Twitter wall, and a wannabe Minority Report style display …

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Tweets: @nostrich, @sfiegerman, @jeffatrad, @kneath, @kevinrose, @codinghorror and @brianstelter

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

SEC Clears Apple's Tax Disclosures — 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 …

More: AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, InvestorPlace, iMore, ValueWalk, iPhone in Canada Blog, GeekWire, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, App Advice, TUAW, Digits, Macgasm and Los Angeles Times

Bloomberg:

Samsung Seeks U.S. Veto of Import Ban Just Like Apple Got — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) wants the same favor from President Barack Obama that he gave U.S.-based Apple Inc. (AAPL) — the right to keep importing smartphones and tablets found to infringe the other's patents.

More: AllThingsD, AppleInsider, Computerworld, Guardian, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks and Electronista

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

FiLIP is an electronic leash for your kids' wrists and it's coming to AT&T — Electronic leashes for the 21st century kid? You knew this sort of thing was inevitable. FiLIP, a smartwatch and ‘locator’ for kids that takes helicopter parenting to an excessive level, is heading to AT&T's lineup as an exclusive.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, iMore, Digits, AT&T, The Verge, Smartwatch.FM and VentureBeat

TechCrunch:

Square Expands To Larger San Francisco Headquarters, New Offices In NYC And Waterloo, Canada — Mobile payments company Square is announcing today the opening of a larger, expanded San Francisco-based headquarters. In addition, the company announced plans for new offices in both New York …

More: Digits, ZDNet, GigaOM, Wired, GeekWire and squareup.com

Daniel Rubino / Windows Phone Central:

Microsoft updates YouTube app for Windows Phone, apparently surrenders to Google as web player returns — Windows Phone users have returned to square one with the ‘updated’ YouTube app today — A few months ago, Microsoft and Google had a brouhaha over YouTube and Windows Phone.

More: Windows Phone, The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web, SlashGear and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @daniel_rubino

Politico:

NSA surveillance review 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 …

More: TechCrunch, TechPresident, Gizmodo, The Switch, Mashable, DSLreports, Daily Dot and Techdirt

Tweets: @will_sargent, @ggreenwald and @csoghoian

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Tweaks Its Welcome Screen to Better Explain Itself — Twitter's IPO is just around the corner — and it's already showing signs of change. — The company quietly updated the Twitter.com homepage over the weekend, changing the visual design and welcome text that people see when first encountering the service.

More: VentureBeat

Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

Fab CEO Jason Goldberg Forfeits Salary, as Site Narrows Product Focus in Wake of Layoffs — Online retailer Fab continues to look to shed costs in the wake of massive layoffs that have eliminated 37 percent of its staff in the last two months. — Among the measures being taken: On Friday …

More: Business Insider and VatorNews

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Following major breach in February, Evernote finally brings optional two-factor authentication to all accounts — Evernote today rolled out optional two-factor authentication for all user accounts. You can turn on the feature yourself now by clicking on this link.

More: Evernote Blog, GigaOM, iMore, The Verge and TUAW

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Google Glass XE10 adds Transit directions but no native apps — Google has updated its Glass wearable with public transit directions, with firmware XE10 turning the headset into a city navigator, though the much-anticipated local app support is still missing.

More: Google Glass, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Engadget and Glass Almanac

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

Microsoft offers differing takes on use of Kinect data for marketing — Since Microsoft announced that the Kinect would be a central, packaged part of every Xbox One sold, some have expressed concern that Microsoft might use the device to gather information about players for marketing purposes.

More: AllThingsD, GeekWire, AdAge, SlashGear, Eurogamer.net, Yahoo! News, Polygon, destructoid and VG247

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