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October 21, 2013, 6:25 PM

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Marissa Mayer / Yahoo:

Everyone's Favorite Gadget Geek, David Pogue, to Join Yahoo — I am thrilled to announce that award-winning columnist, best-selling author, and TV host David Pogue will be joining Yahoo. David will lead a major expansion of consumer tech coverage on Yahoo and will publish columns …

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Yahoo To Launch Consumer Tech Site With Help Of New York Times' David Pogue

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John D. Stoll / Wall Street Journal:

Elop will unveil six Nokia products Tuesday, and possibly offer Microsoft hope in devices — Elop to Show Off New Devices as Microsoft Watches Closely — It's showtime for Microsoft Corp.'s $25 million man. — Stephen Elop, who until last month was Nokia Corp.'s chief executive …

More: The Verge, GigaOM, The Verge, The Next Web, dailywireless.org, Cult of Mac, BGR, CNET, Electronista, FierceWireless, TechEye, WMPoweruser, PhoneArena, memeburn and Softpedia News

Tweets: @christophlawton and @wsjnordics

Sean Buckley / Engadget:

Nokia leaks Lumia 1520 details on Chinese online store: 20MP PureView camera, Snapdragon 800 processor — Looking for more evidence that Nokia's about to unleash an oversized Windows Phone? You've got it: the company's official Tmall store (an online marketplace in China) recently published a product page for the fabled Lumia 1520.

More: The Verge, SlashGear, TechSpot, Inquirer, Daily Mail, Gizmodo, techshout.com, TechHive, pocketnow.com, CNET, Electronista, Softpedia News, Gearburn, The Next Web and Mashable

Bernd Leger / Localytics:

iPhone 5c narrowing 5s' lead and what to expect from Apple's 10/22 iPad Launch — iPhone 5c steadily gaining, but it's still not the phone for emerging markets — It's been just about one month since the initial release of the iPhone 5s and 5c and, following two initial extensive research reports …

More: GigaOM, PC Magazine, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBeat, MacRumors and BGR

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

So the 5S is (allegedly) killing the 5C. Why is this bad news? — John Koetsier, writing at VetureBeat: … First, the necessary caveat: Apple supply chain rumors are notoriously unreliable. But let's assume this one is true, and see if we can figure out the bad news Koetsier is referring to.

More: I4U News. Tweets: @fmanjoo. Thanks:@monkbent

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Netflix's Q3 Beats Analyst Estimates With 1.3M New Domestic Subscribers, $0.52 Earnings Per Share — Social Video Broadcasting Startup Spreecast Comes Out Of Beta With A New Design — Netflix's third-quarter earnings report just came out, with the company beating analyst expectations on higher-than-expected subscriber numbers.

More: Business Insider, BGR, Engadget, The Verge, GeekWire, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Quartz, Tech Trader Daily, internetretailer.com, PR Newswire and WebProNews

Tweets: @pkafka, @benpopper and @zseward

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Hits Its Numbers, Investors Go Nuts, Reed Hastings Tells Them to Chill Out

More: Digits, TechCrunch and WebProNews

Leo Kelion / BBC:

Facebook lets beheading clips return to social network — Facebook announced in May that it would ban videos showing graphic violence while it carried out a review — Facebook is allowing videos showing people being decapitated to be posted and shared on its site once again.

More: The Verge, Graham Cluley, Gizmodo and SlashGear. Thanks:@leokelion

TIME:

Google Unveils Tools to Access Web From Repressive Countries — The tech titan is introducing products to track Internet attacks and aid free expression — Google Ideas, the New York City-based “think/do tank” run by the Internet search giant, is launching several new technologies designed …

More: 9to5Google, The Next Web, The Official Google Blog, Malwarebytes Unpacked, SlashGear, The Daily Beast, Daily Dot and Mashable

Tweets: @getlantern, @google and @google

Thanks:@samgustin. See also Mediagazer

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Google's ‘Project Shield’ Will Offer Free Cyberattack Protection To Hundreds Of At-Risk Sites

More: Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, PC Magazine, Graham Cluley and CircleID. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts — Wikipedia editors have disabled hundreds of paid Wikipedia editing accounts in recent weeks as part of a campaign against so-called “sockpuppetry.” The efforts were described in a statement published this morning …

More: Digits

Martin Robbins / Motherboard:

Client and worker interviews shed more light on Wikipedia-editing firm Wiki-PR

More: Wikimedia blog, Computerworld and WebProNews. Tweets: @felixsalmon

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Google's iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary — Android is open—except for all the good parts. — Six years ago, in November 2007, the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) was announced. The original iPhone came out just a few months earlier …

More: ITworld.com, AndroidHeadlines.com, Daring Fireball, 9to5Google, GigaOM and memeburn

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @bgurley, @caseyjohnston, @_andycowley and @xor

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Finally: BBM rolling out in Google Play, iOS App Store and in select Samsung App Stores TODAY — BlackBerry announced the release of its BlackBerry Messenger iOS and Android app — long awaited, no less. The company says that users should see it appear in Google Play, the Apple App Store, and in select Samsung App Stores.

More: Inside BlackBerry, Examiner, TUAW, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Verge, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Android Beat, Droid Life, AndroidGuys, memeburn, Phones Review, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocket-lint and GadgetGuide4U

Tweets: @journeydan and @thenextweb

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Applying Data Analytics to Education, Panorama Wins Mark Zuckerberg's First Public Angel Investment — There are so many things that could be done to make schools better — improving teaching methods, curbing dropout rates, cutting down on bullying. — “But there's no way to understand what's going on …

More: GigaOM, Mashable, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Y Combinator Posthaven and Softpedia News

Tweets: @jeff and @paulg

Le Monde:

France in the NSA's crosshair : phone networks under surveillance — The future will perhaps tell us one day why France has remained so discreet in comparison with Germany or Brazil, for example, after the first revelations about the extent of the American electronic espionage programmes …

More: Ars Technica, Guardian, BBC, CNN, Daily Dot, emptywheel, Gawker, ITworld.com, CNET, Daily Dot, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, RT, The Verge, Softpedia News, Techdirt, GigaOM, Wired.co.uk and The Register. Tweets: @csoghoian

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service — An identity theft service that sold Social Security and drivers license numbers — as well as bank account and credit card data on millions of Americans — purchased much of its data from Experian, one of the three major credit bureaus …

More: Techdirt, Ars Technica, The Verge, InfoWorld, ZDNet, Softpedia News and Boing Boing

Tweets: @briankrebs and @dodgy_coder

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Verizon glitch allowed access to texting data from any number — A rudimentary URL hack may have exposed texting data for tens of millions of Verizon customers, according to a new report from security researcher Prvsec. The vulnerability was reportedly fixed in September …

More: PRVSEC, The Escapist, Engadget, TechSpot and The Hacker News. Tweets: @csoghoian

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Surface Pro 2 is an improvement over its predecessor: quicker, quieter, longer battery life — Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Review — When Microsoft introduced its first Surface devices last year, it did so in a staggered fashion. Surface RT showed up first, then four months later Surface Pro went on sale.

More: Engadget, The Next Web, The Verge, Wired, Mashable, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo and ZDNet. Tweets: @codinghorror

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Surface 2: Big step forward compared to RT but still faces same struggles

More: ZDNet, CITEworld, Guardian, Engadget, WinBeta, Mashable, SuperSite for Windows, The Verge, Yahoo! News, CNET, Gizmodo, The Next Web, GeekWire and TechCrunch

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