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October 26, 2013, 4:17 AM

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AllThingsD:
Snapchat Is Mulling Another Huge Round at a $3.5 Billion Valuation  —  Only a few months after closing a Series B round of $60 million that valued the ephemeral messaging company at $800 million, Snapchat has been in talks for another funding that values it at up to $3.6 billion, according to sources close to the situation.
Brooke Crothers / CNET:
Qualcomm marketing exec Chandrasekher reassigned after calling Apple's 64-bit A7 a “gimmick”  —  After Apple 64-bit A7 criticism, Qualcomm exec reassigned  —  The 64-bit Apple A7 chip is now being used in all of Apple's marquee iOS products, including the newest iPhone and iPad.
Peter Cohen / iMore:
Apple's new Mac iWork apps: A big step back in workflow automation  —  On Tuesday evening Apple posted updates to its iWork apps for Mac - Pages, Keynote and Numbers.  Featured during Apple's iPad and Mac event in San Francisco, the new versions of iWork apps sport new features …
More: SlashGear
Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:
How Rizvi, Sacca purchased shares from Williams, other Twitter employees to claim major stake  —  Friendship Formed Foundation of 15.6% Stake in Social-Media Company  —  Evelyn M. Rusli … The largest stake in Twitter Inc. first came together seven years ago at a posh Caribbean resort.
Tweets: @wsjmarkets
Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:
Facebook Won't Launch Auto-Play Video Ads This Year  —  If you're an advertiser waiting to hand Facebook a bag of cash to start running video ads on the social network in time for the holidays, it sounds like you're out of luck.  —  Sources tell AllThingsD that Facebook has been advising …
More: BGR, SlashGear and The Next WebTweets: @pkafka
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Lots Of Hollywood Interest In Making Bilton's Twitter Book A Movie  —  Interest is swirling at Sony and several other major Hollywood studios around Nick Bilton's book “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal”, TechCrunch has learned.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Comcast's latest bundle, Internet Plus, still requires you to pay for TV to receive HBO  —  Dear Internet: You Still Can't Get HBO Without Paying for Cable  —  Lots of people who read sites like this site love the idea of paying for HBO without paying for cable.
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Mobile Payments Startup Flint Raises $6M Series B Led By Digicel Group  —  Mobile payments startup Flint has been keeping a low profile for much of this year, but it's looking like that quiet period is finally over.  The company just recently launched support for Android in a bid to widen its reach …
Nancy Gohring / CITEworld:
Salesforce to shut down Do.com task management service  —  Do.com, Salesforce.com's task management service, said today that it plans to shut down in January.  —  The company sent emails to users today letting them know that the service will be discontinued on January 31.  It didn't say why.
iFixit:
MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Late 2013 Teardown  —  We took apart the new 15" Retina MacBook Pro with the hopes that Apple made it more repair-friendly than the debut Mid 2012 model.  Unfortunately, things didn't really work out in our favor; in fact, they took a turn for the (slightly) worse.

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