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October 26, 2013, 3:50 PM

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Next on Deck for Snapchat and Pinterest: Some Sales Help?  —  Earlier this week, AllThingsD broke the news of two major fundings of a pair of hot startups: Scrapbooking service Pinterest and messaging service Snapchat.  —  Pinterest's round of $225 million at a $3.8 billion valuation …
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John Knefel / Rolling Stone:
Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters  —  Promotional materials for private spy companies show that mass surveillance technology is being sold to police departments as a way to monitor dissent  —  The documents leaked to media outlets by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
Thomas Gryta / Digits:
AT&T's Plan Revamp Signals the End of Voice Minutes  —  The days of worrying about minutes ticking away on your cell phone plan are nearly gone.  —  As of today, AT&T is dropping the availability of its old plans for new smartphone subscribers, and all of the remaining plans include unlimited calling …
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Amazon Publishing reportedly retreating in NYC.  Thank (or blame) Barnes & Noble  —  When Amazon Publishing launched its general trade imprint in New York in 2011, the goal was to go head-to-head with the big traditional publishers here.  The company announced in May of that year …
Sanjay Bhatt / The Seattle Times:
Amazon's plans for spherical building in downtown Seattle approved by city design panel  —  Amazon's bubble building gets OK from design panel  —  A city panel on Tuesday signed off on Amazon.com's design for a five-story office building formed by three intersecting spheres …
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.
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Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Must Face Group Antitrust Hiring Lawsuit  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc. (GOOG) and two other Silicon Valley companies must face a group lawsuit representing more than 64,000 technical employees claiming their incomes were held down by the companies' agreements not to recruit one another's workers.
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 …

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