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October 15, 2013, 1:05 PM

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Apple:
Angela Ahrendts to Join Apple as Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores  —  Apple® today announced that Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry, will be joining Apple in a newly created position, as a senior vice president and member of our executive team, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple Announces October 22 Event: “We Still Have a Lot to Cover”  —  Apple this morning distributed invitations to a special event at which it's expected to unveil the next iterations of the iPad and iPad mini.  And it's to be held on October 22, just as AllThingsD said it would.
Washington Post:
NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally  —  The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials …
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:
Google Watch is happening soon, heavy into Kit Kat/Google Now functionality  —  I recently heard word that Google was putting the finishing touches on a Watch product.  Details are slim but the person seemed to think that Google Now functionality would be at the center of the product.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
GoDaddy Buys Media Temple To Build Up Its Business With Web Professionals  —  Domain registration and hosting company GoDaddy is continuing on its acquisitions roll, with the announcement today that it acquired Media Temple, a premium domain hosting and website services company based …
Bonnie Cha / AllThingsD:
Sony's Latest Xperia Phones, SmartWatch 2 Launch in U.S.; No Carrier Announcements Yet  —  After making the rounds in Europe and Asia, Sony announced today the U.S. availability of its Xperia Z Ultra and Xperia Z1 smartphones, and the SmartWatch 2.  But a word of caution: If you're eyeing one of these phones, it's going to cost you.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Supercell Dominates The Realm: Game Maker Sells A 51%, $1.53B Stake To SoftBank and GungHo Online  —  Another big move for Softbank into the gaming world, and a massive investment for Finnish gaming juggernaut Supercell: the company is selling a 51% stake for $1.53 billion to Japan's SoftBank …
Mikael Ricknäs / PC World:
VMware acquires Desktone, makes network virtualization generally available  —  VMware continues to push its plan to virtualize the whole data center, with the general availability of its network virtualization platform, and desktops too with the acquisition of desktop-as-a service company Desktone.
Stephanie Banchero / Wall Street Journal:
School Districts Grapple With Glitches in Computer Tablets  —  Districts Grapple With Glitches as Some Say Devices Can Supplement Lessons  —  Two elementary-school pupils in the Los Angeles district tool around with their tablets in August.  Problems have stalled the district's tablet rollout.
The Switch:
Yahoo Mail switching to HTTPS connections by default in January, four years after GMail  —  Yahoo to make SSL encryption the default for Webmail users.  Finally.  —  Beginning Jan. 8, Yahoo will enable encryption by default for users logging into its Web-based mail service, the company has told The Washington Post.
Reid Hoffman:
LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs  —  At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs.  It doesn't matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we're considering an investment, or whether we're casually meeting for the first time.
More: FortuneTweets: @reidhoffman
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Yandex Buys KinoPoisk, 'Russia's IMDb', To Move Into Film Search And Recommendation  —  Yandex, the search company often referred to as the Google of Russia, is today announcing its latest acquisition: KinoPoisk, an online film database known as “the IMDb of Russia” (after the Amazon-owned company …
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
HTC to make future Amazon phones, according to report  —  Rumors of an Amazon smartphone have circulated for well over a year now, but a new report out today says that the retail giant will use HTC to make its upcoming devices.  Three different smartphones are said to be in development …

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