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October 8, 2013, 9:30 AM

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Bloomberg:
iTunes Radio to reach UK and Canada before Pandora, also expanding to Australia and NZ in early 2014  —  Apple Said to Expand ITunes Radio to U.K. Before Pandora  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to expand iTunes Radio to English-speaking countries outside the U.S. by early 2014 …
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.
Jack Clark / The Register:
Microsoft takes fight to Amazon on raft of cloud announcements  —  Stays mute on custom chips  —  Microsoft has tried to close the distance between Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services by confronting the threat posed by Bezos & Co's cloud.  —  The company announced a range of new cloud services …
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Announces Azure For US Government, Satya Nadella Dodges The CEO Question  —  At the San Francisco offices of Yammer, Microsoft's Satya Nadella today announced a new instance of its Azure cloud product built for U.S. government customers.  The product, formally called …
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
Meltdowns Hobble NSA Data Center  —  Investigators Stumped by What's Causing Power Surges That Destroy Equipment  —  Chronic electrical surges at the massive new data-storage facility central to the National Security Agency's spying operation have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth …
Richard Lai / Engadget:
HTC teases One Max in October 16th event invitation (update: global launch October 15th)  —  With all the recent leaks, it's no surprise that the launch for the HTC One Max is just around the corner.  According to an invitation we just received from HTC Taiwan, the company will be hosting …
Kyle VanHemert / Wired:
Early Apple designer and Frog Design founder Hartmut Esslinger on 4 areas ripe for innovation  —  The Godfather of Apple Design Spots 4 Looming Tech Trends  —  Before there was Jony Ive, there was Hartmut Esslinger.  The founder of the influential design consultancy Frog started working …
More: Co.Design
Wall Street Journal:
Samsung eyes software acquisitions, has evaluated several gaming and mapping startups  —  A Weak Spot for Samsung?  —  South Korean Giant Weighs Software Deals to Better Compete With Apple, Google  —  Samsung Electronics Co. is stepping up its hunt for acquisitions and building …
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC:
Baked in Britain, the millionth Raspberry Pi  —  For British computing this is quite a day.  The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that a million of the tiny cheap computers aimed at transforming education have now been made in the UK.  —  When the Pi was launched in February last year, the device was made in China.
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Those Giant Fox News Touchscreens Are Microsoft Perceptive Pixel Displays Running Windows 8  —  Huge iPads or tiny journalists?  That's the question that many are asking after Fox News released a video detailing a new set that includes a number of analysts sat before massive touch interfaces.
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 …
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Google chairman Eric Schmidt's next book will tell you how to lead a tech company  —  Eric Schmidt will reveal stories and advice from how he led Google for a decade in an upcoming book.  The former Google CEO's first book, The New Digital Age, was just released this past April …
More: ZDNet
Sarah Silbert / Engadget:
Google announces HP Chromebook 11 for $279, we go hands-on  —  Today Google announced some new hardware: the HP Chromebook 11.  Priced at $279, this 11-incher is available today, and we've already spent had a change to get our hands on several units.  —  The laptop is sleek and attractive …
David Pierce / The Verge:
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2013) Review: a great ebook reader, and the only one worth considering  —  Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review (2013)  —  The best ebook reader becomes both bookstore and library  —  Amazon won the ebook reader war.  Like the iPod, the Swiffer, or Jell-O …
Steven Levy / Wired:
Nest Gives the Lowly Smoke Detector a Brain — And a Voice  —  One day in June, about 20 engineers and managers at the startup company Nest went on a field trip.  They didn't need to pack a lunch.  Their destination: a storage closet near the bathrooms at their new headquarters in Palo Alto.
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Kumu Networks aims to double capacity of cellular and Wi-Fi communications  —  Startup Aims to Reinvent Wireless Communication  —  Kumu Networks Says It Can Double the Use of Radio Spectrum, Easing Congestion  —  A small startup is challenging one of the long-held precepts in communications …

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