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October 18, 2013, 5:35 AM

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Google:
Google Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2013 Results  —  Google today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2013.  “Google had another strong quarter with $14.9 billion in revenue and great product progress,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
40% Of YouTube Traffic Now Mobile, Up From 25% In 2012, 6% In 2011  —  It's hard to get people to concentrate long on anything on their phones and tablets, yet YouTube seems to be the exception.  The video service is quickly going mobile, with small screens making up 40% of its traffic …
More: IntoMobileTweets: @hunterwalk
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Nexus 5 listing appears in the Play Store, teases 16GB for $349  —  We still haven't heard anything official about Google's next Nexus phone, but tonight some people are already seeing it as an option in the Play Store.  Just among our editors, some see the Nexus 4 while others get the result shown above …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
AT&T Announces $5 Tablet Day Passes, Deal to Power Tesla's In-Car Wireless  —  While consumers are clearly buying tablets in droves, getting them to fork over to connect them to cellular networks has been another story.  —  Buyers have overwhelmingly chosen Wi-Fi-only models, and …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft's new iOS and Android Remote Desktop apps let you control a PC from a phone  —  Microsoft is providing a new way for iOS and Android users to access their Windows PCs today.  A new Remote Desktop app is now available for both operating systems, letting you simply connect to a Windows PC and control it.
Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
China's Lenovo is considering buying Blackberry  —  Lenovo Group Ltd. is actively considering a bid for all of BlackBerry Ltd. , according to people familiar with the matter.  —  The Chinese personal-computer and smartphone maker has signed a “non-disclosure” agreement that enables it to look …
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
Samsung set-top box uses mediocre Smart TV software to compete with Roku, Apple TV  —  Samsung isn't known for its software, but that hasn't stopped the company from pushing its Smart TV interface, which offers access to video streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu Plus, HBO Go, and MLB.TV, as well as a selection of other utilities.
Electronista:
USPTO confirms all claims in key ‘Steve Jobs’ iPhone patent  —  Re-establishes foothold for Apple lawsuits  —  The US Patent and Trademark Office has finished a re-examination of Apple's so-called “Steve Jobs patent” and upheld all 20 claims as patentable, reports note.
FaryaabS / SamMobile:
Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE (GT-I9505) receives official Android 4.3 update  —  Samsung promised at its Mobile UNPACKED Episode 2 event that it will start rolling out Galaxy S4 updates in October and we are very pleased that Samsung has kept their promise.  As Samsung has just started rolling out Android 4.3 …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
E-Loan Specialist Wonga Buys BillPay, The PayPal Of Germany, To Move Deeper Into Payments  —  Wonga is a UK-based startup best known for its online payday loan services, but today the company made a move that could see it not only extending across to other markets in Europe but also into other services …
Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:
Black Market Reloaded, Silk Road's main competitor, shuts down due to security breach  —  Silk Road's main competitor shuts down indefinitely  —  Black Market Reloaded, the digital black market that was the largest competitor to the recently-busted Silk Road, just announced it's closing and refunding users' money.
Zach Miners / ITworld.com:
Programmers at Juniper — not Google or Facebook — rake in the most dough  —  Juniper's average base salary for coders is about $160,000  —  What a lucrative profession coding can be — the best paid software engineers have an average base salary of nearly US$160,000, and they work at Juniper Networks, according to a recent survey.
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Twitter users unable to send some URLs in direct messages; may be due to rise in DM spam  —  Twitter's Theoretically Temporary URL Messaging Ban Due To Massive Wave Of DM Spam  —  Late yesterday afternoon many Twitter users began to notice that they could no longer send Direct Messages containing URLs.
More: Mashable and EngadgetTweets: @mikeisaac
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