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October 18, 2013, 11:10 PM

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Justin Huskamp / DoubleClick Advertiser Blog:

DoubleClick Bid Manager Joins FBX, Facebook's Real-Time Bidding Exchange — Partnership has been key to Google's success as a rising tide lifts all boats. So we're excited to announce a new way to help our clients succeed by working with Facebook to participate in FBX, their real-time bidding exchange.

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Tweets: @vindugoel, @pkafka, @realdanlyons and @amir

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Google, Facebook Call an Ad Tech Truce: DoubleClick Is Coming to the Facebook Exchange

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Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Google Hangouts for iOS can call US & Canada for free, receive Google Voice calls — The Google Hangouts app for iOS is getting a major update this evening that gives it all new calling features on Apple's mobile hardware. Users can call phone numbers directly from the app itself …

More: The Next Web, MacRumors, AppleInsider, GeekWire, 9to5Google, The Verge, SocialTimes, MacStories, Gizmodo and SlashGear

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple: No, We Can't Read Your iMessages (And We Don't Want to, Either) — Touting its commitment to user privacy in the wake of the NSA surveillance scandal earlier this year, Apple said that the end-to-end encryption protecting its iMessage instant-messenger service is so secure that even the company itself cannot decrypt it.

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

iPhone 5C production cut by 35%, iPhone 5S production boosted 75% — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Apple has the prototypical good-news, bad-news scenario on its hands, with soaring sales of its flagship iPhone 5S contrasting sharply with souring sales of its “for the colorful” iPhone 5C.

More: DisplaySearch Blog, AllThingsD, AppleInsider, CNET, Computerworld, MacRumors, Intuitive SystemsIntuitive … and IntoMobile

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

HTC Loses Head of Global PR After Four Months — Just when it seems HTC has stemmed its executive exodus, another senior figure departs the Taiwanese smartphone maker. — Lorain Wong joined HTC as Vice President and head of Global PR, Corporate and Internal Communications, this past June.

More: BGR, PhoneArena, TechnoBuffalo, IntoMobile, AndroidHeadlines.com, ZDNet, Phandroid, Android Beat and The Verge

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft confirms it is working on a Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone — Microsoft yesterday quietly launched Microsoft Remote Desktop for Android and iOS, for the first time bringing the Windows desktop to phones and tablets. One of the most surprising parts of the announcement …

More: WMPoweruser, pocketnow.com and ZDNet

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Lenovo announces A10 Android laptop amid slumping PC sales — After unintentionally leaking its existence, Lenovo has today officially announced the A10 Android laptop. It's the first laptop from the world's top PC vendor to ship with Android 4.2 on board.

More: Lenovo Newsroom, Electronista, The Droid Guy, SlashGear, WebProNews, AndroidHeadlines.com, Softpedia News and Engadget

Reuters:

Exclusive: NSA delayed anti-leak software at base where Snowden worked -officials — (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency failed to install the most up-to-date anti-leak software at a site in Hawaii before contractor Edward Snowden went to work there and downloaded tens of thousands …

More: Ars Technica, CNET, The Verge, Business Insider and Techdirt. Tweets: @timothys

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

iOS 7 adoption ‘much slower’ than iOS 6, ad network says — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Apple's new mobile operating system iOS 7 has been one of the most successful launches in history, reaching a shocking 18 percent adoption rate in just 24 hours and rising to surpass iOS 6 within just a few days.

More: Millennial Media, AppleInsider, ReadWrite, iPhone Hacks, BGR, Network World, MacNN and MacRumors

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Chill to Lay Off 40% of Staff, Move Away From Video Sales (Exclusive) — Chill will lay off 40 percent of its staff as part of a shift away from the entertainment business, according to CEO Brian Norgard. — The site, which for the past year has been selling movies, TV shows and specials …

More: GigaOM, Los Angeles Business … and PandoDaily. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Nokia Quietly Shuttering Pioneering Location Network Dopplr Nov 1st, 4 Years After Acquisition — Nokia has very quietly shuttered the social travel service Dopplr today, just over four years after acquiring it back in 2009. Nokia placed an announcement on the Dopplr homepage that says the service …

More: Tnooz. Tweets: @qthrul

Jeffrey Grubb / VentureBeat:

Nvidia's big moves: New GeForce GTX 780 Ti, low-latency streaming tech, and an end to screen tearing — Graphics-hardware company Nvidia is holding its “The Way It's Meant To Be Played” event today, and the company is announcing a variety of new products and features that solve some of PC gaming's most nagging issues.

More: NVIDIA, AnandTech, AndroidGuys, The Droid Guy, PC Gamer, Polygon and Electronista

Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:

Google Stock Hits $1,000 for First Time Ever — Google is officially part of the ultra-exclusive $1,000 club. — The search giant's stock topped $1,000 a share on Friday for the first time in its history, making it one of only a select few businesses including Priceline, Seaboard and Berkshire Hathaway to hit that milestone.

Thanks:@toddwasserman

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

40% Of YouTube Traffic Now Mobile, Up From 25% In 2012, 6% In 2011

More: AllThingsD, dailywireless.org, Softpedia News, Business Insider, BGR, AllThingsD, ReelSEO Video Marketing, VideoNuze Analysis, hypebot, Inquirer, IntoMobile, SiliconANGLE, TechEye, TechCrunch and CNET

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