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October 11, 2013, 10:10 AM

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Google to sunset Google TV brand as its smart TV platform merges with Android  —  Google TV is dead, long live Android TV: Three years after launching the first generation of Google TV devices, Google is now looking to rid itself of the brand and realign its smart TV platform efforts more closely with Android.
New York Times:
Google updates ToS allowing inclusion of users' names, photos and comments in web ads  —  Google Sets Plan to Sell Users' Endorsements  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google, following in Facebook's footsteps, wants to sell users' endorsements to marketers to help them hawk their wares.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name, Highlighting Lack Of Universal Privacy Controls  —  “Who can look up your Timeline by name?”  Anyone you haven't blocked.  Facebook is removing this privacy setting, notifying those who had hidden themselves that they'll be searchable.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Seven Key Designers of BlackBerry 10 Left the Company in January  —  The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) has decamped BlackBerry.  —  Earlier this year, seven members of the Swedish design house acquired by the smartphone maker to help develop BlackBerry 10, left it to found a new design group called Topp.
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Miguel Helft / Fortune:
Sheryl Sandberg: The real story  —  The motorcade that snaked through 1 Hacker Way earlier this year surprised even jaded Facebook employees, who are used to on-campus celebrity sightings and visits from politicians and world leaders.  So a few days later, at the question-and-answer session …
John Koetsier / VentureBeat:
Apple iWatch is actually a home automation play, not a smartphone companion (analyst)  —  Nov. 12 - 13, 2013  —  Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch launched a couple of weeks ago as a fat, ugly, and expensive smartphone accessory that our own Devindra Hardawar called “relentlessly inessential.”
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Reportedly Cutting iPhone 5c Production as Chinese Gray Market Prices Drop  —  Apple is reportedly cutting iPhone 5c production in half from 300,000 units to 150,000 units per day, according to claims by C Technology [Google Translate], which leaked a number of photos of the iPhone 5s …
Jason Evangelho / Forbes:
Valve Confirms Official AMD-Powered Steam Machines For 2014  —  In a statement to Forbes, a Valve representative has confirmed that AMD graphics hardware will be included in commercially available Steam Machines next year.  The more interesting story, however, is why Valve needed to confirm this in the first place.
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
As More Startups Move To San Francisco, Y Combinator Opens A Satellite Office In The City  —  Y Combinator has been a mainstay of Silicon Valley, with an office not far from the Mountain View Caltrain station.  * Over the years, however, the seed-stage venture firm has seen more of its companies …
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JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
Can Silicon Valley boot camps get you a $120K job?  —  These crash courses accomplish in 12 weeks (or less) what top computer science schools might teach in four years.  Welcome to the 21st century vocational school.  —  FORTUNE — Hiring a good software engineer in Silicon Valley these days …
Dan Farber / CNET:
Apple legend Bill Atkinson's new mission: Save the postcard  —  The creator of the Macintosh's QuickDraw graphics system, MacPaint, and HyperCard wants to save the postcard from extinction.  —  It's 5:00 a.m., and Bill Atkinson makes his way downstairs to begin his daily routine of, as he calls it, milking the cow.

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