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October 25, 2013, 11:30 AM

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Reuters:

Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles — (Reuters) - As a diplomatic row rages between the United States and Europe over spying accusations, state-backed Deutsche Telekom wants German communications companies to cooperate to shield local internet traffic from foreign intelligence services.

More: DSLreports, Gizmodo, Hillicon Valley, SlashGear and I4U News. Tweets: @froomkin

James Ball / Guardian:

NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders — • Agency given more than 200 numbers by government official — • NSA encourages departments to share their ‘Rolodexes’ — • Surveillance produced ‘little intelligence’, memo acknowledges — The National Security Agency monitored …

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Tweets: @jamesrbuk, @jamesrbuk, @jamesrbuk and @tconnellyrte

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New York Times:

Why the Government Never Gets Tech Right — MILLIONS of Americans negotiating America's health care system know all too well what the waiting room of a doctor's office looks like. Now, thanks to HealthCare.gov, they know what a “virtual waiting room” looks like, too.

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Washington Post:

Full testing of HealthCare.gov began too late, contractors say

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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Samsung announces $9.56 billion profit in latest record-breaking quarter — Samsung was predicting record revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2013, and as usual it didn't disappoint. The company has announced 59.08 trillion won (approximately $55.59 billion) in revenue …

More: SiliconANGLE, Gigaom, 9to5Google, Digits, International Business Times, BBC, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Pocket-lint, BGR, AllThingsD and Electronista

Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:

Samsung Profit Surges as Cheaper Handsets Team With Chips

More: TechnoBuffalo, bizjournals, Geeky Gadgets, pocketnow.com, Android Community and Engadget

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Samsung Reports 26% Growth In Q3 Operating Profit, But Warns Of Slower Smartphone Sales

More: Reuters

Jenny Hollander / Bustle:

What Are Instagram's Rules For Photos? Gun, Drug Sales Good; Bikini Line Bad — The White House has picked a bad week to partner up with Instagram. The photo-sharing application, populated by more than 80 million users, is under fire for nixing a user's account after she posted a photograph …

More: NOISEY

Carmel DeAmicis / PandoDaily:

Uh oh, Los Angeles School District's $30 million iPad program falls flat — Last week, I wrote about how one-to-one tablet programs in Missouri and Texas K-12 schools had hit some road bumps. In North Carolina when 73,000 Amplify tablets arrived — from Robert Murdoch's edtech company …

More: AppleInsider, Electronista and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @pandodaily

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

BlackBerry does ‘not approve of or condone’ the fishy BBM for Android reviews, denies any involvement — BlackBerry recently came under fire for a slew of suspicious reviews with five-star ratings on Google Play for its recently launched BBM for Android app.

More: CNET, BGR, InfoWorld, The Verge, ValueWalk, Inquirer, SlashGear, memeburn, Softpedia News, CITEworld, Electronista, Gizmodo UK and Gizmodo

J. Glenn Künzler / MacTrast:

The Truth About ‘Free’ Mac App Store Software Upgrades in OS X Mavericks — There have been a number of reports lately revealing that OS X Mavericks seems to be allowing users to “upgrade illegal or trial version” Apple software obtained outside the Mac App Store.

More: Cult of Mac, Geeky Gadgets, Softpedia News, SiliconANGLE, iPhone, Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, TUAW, iMore, MacRumors and iClarified

Tweets: @applespotlight and @firefoxpl

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Reed Albergotti / Digits:

LinkedIn On Defensive About Security of ‘Intro’ — LinkedIn on Thursday faced criticism from security experts and confusion from members over Intro, a new software product that embeds public LinkedIn profiles into emails received by iPhone users. — In response, the online professional network published …

More: Bishop Fox, NYT Bits and The Verge

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Amazon reports quarterly net loss of $41M, sales above $17B, exceeding expectations — Amazon just posted another unprofitable quarter. But the company did manage to beat Wall Street's expectations. — The company reported a quarterly net loss of $41 million, or 9 cents per share.

More: Amazon.com, Geeky Gadgets, AllThingsD, The Register, The Next Web, WebProNews, Gigaom, internetretailer.com and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Same Old Amazon: All Sales, No Profit

More: VentureBeat and New York Times

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Apple.com Now Selling $20 OS X Mountain Lion And Lion Redemption Codes For Older Macs — Apple has begun selling OS X Mountain Lion redemption codes alongside OS X Lion for $20 each. Lion was previously available for purchase directly from Apple over the phone, but the company has decided …

More: MacRumors, Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Geeky Gadgets, iMore, AppleInsider, Softpedia News and TUAW

Karl Bode / DSLreports:

Source: Comcast Launching HBO Broadband Bundle Aimed at Netflix — An insider familiar with Comcast's promotional plans tells DSLreports that the company is preparing a new broadband and HBO streaming bundle aimed squarely at Netflix. The new promotion will be called “Internet Plus,” …

More: Examiner, TheStreet.com, Gigaom, The Verge, Digital Trends, I4U News, Gotta Be Mobile, Gizmodo, Engadget and SlashGear

Derrick Harris / Gigaom:

Facebook's answer to serving 700TB of graph search data is lots of SSDs — Facebook's graph search feature requires finding and serving the right data fast, and from a database that currently houses more than a trillion posts and 700 terabytes of data overall.

More: Facebook, AllFacebook, Search Engine Land, ZDNet, WebProNews, SlashGear, The Register and The Next Web. Tweets: @derrickharris

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows Phone users report excessive data use, built-in Twitter feature to blame — Microsoft has confirmed that there's an issue with its built-in Twitter feature that could result in unexpected data usage. The issue stems from a Twitter backend change that has caused Windows Phones …

More: PC World, SlashGear, PhoneArena, WPDang, pocketnow.com, TechnoBuffalo, Electronista, WMPoweruser and Engadget

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Tweetbot 3 for iPhone arrives as $2.99 paid upgrade with complete redesign for iOS 7 — Tapbots has released version 3 of its Tweetbot for iPhone Twitter client with a complete overhaul of the app for iOS. Upgrading to the new app costs $2.99 for a limited time, but it will eventually jump up to $4.99.

More: TechCrunch, MacStories, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, iMore, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, SlashGear and Daring Fireball

Tweets: @reneritchie, @marcoarment, @reneritchie and @markgurman

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Tweetbot 3 for iPhone arrives: gorgeous new design, same great features

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Crushes FQ1 Expectations With Revenue of $18.5B, EPS Of $0.62, $400M In Surface Top Line — Microsoft reported its fiscal first quarter results today, with revenue of $18.53 billion and earnings per share of $0.62. Analysts had expected the first quarter of Microsoft's fiscal 2014 …

More: Computerworld, Inquirer, BetaNews, Guardian, Search Engine Land, The Verge, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, MediaNama, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Register, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Business Insider, WebProNews, AllThingsD and Marketing Land. Tweets: @carnage4life. Thanks:@pickavet

Microsoft:

Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion

More: ValueWalk. Tweets: @merv and @anxboxdude

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