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Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:

Google in talks to begin mass production of smartwatch, device integrated with Google Now — Google Nears Smartwatch Launch — Company In Talks With Asian Suppliers for Mass Production — TAIPEI—Google Inc.'s smartwatch is in late-stage development and the company is in talks …

The Official Motorola Blog:

Motorola's Project Ara: A free, open hardware platform for creating modular smartphones — Goodbye Sticky. Hello Ara. — Over the last six months, our MAKEwithMOTO team took Sticky, a truck wrapped entirely in velcro and filled with rooted, hackable Motorola smartphones …

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Motorola reveals ambitious plan to build modular smartphones

More: Ars Technica, The Switch, The Register, Forbes and Laughing Squid

Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:

BlackBerry Met With Facebook Last Week on Potential Bid — BlackBerry Ltd. executives flew to California to meet with Facebook Inc. last week to gauge its interest in a potential bid for the struggling smartphone-maker, according to people familiar with the matter.

More: The Register, VatorNews, ABC News, AllFacebook, ZDNet, Business Insider, The Verge, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, Ubergizmo, Gigaom, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, CrackBerry.com and TechnoBuffalo

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Google adds location sharing, animated GIFs to Hangouts, integrates SMS — Today during its “A Morning with Google+” event, Google announced some updates for its Google+ service on top of sharing some improvements to Hangouts. Perhaps the biggest new feature that was announced during …

More: The Official Google Blog, ABC News, Google, Ars Technica, Mercury News, The Technology Chronicles, PC World, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, The Next Web, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, Engadget, The Verge, Forbes and WebProNews

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @panzer

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Google+ gets new backup, auto-enhance, and HDR filters to help you become a better storyteller

More: MacRumors, The Verge, TechHive, Google, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget and Gotta Be Mobile

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Google+ Hits 300 Million Active Monthly “In-Stream” Users, 540 Million Across Google

More: Reuters, 9to5Google and ClickZ

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Can Google dominate live video with Hangouts on Air?

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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

Exclusive: Obama orders curbs on NSA spying on U.N. headquarters — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama recently ordered the National Security Agency to curtail eavesdropping on the United Nations headquarters in New York as part of a review of U.S. electronic surveillance, according to a U.S. official familiar with the decision.

More: Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @jujueyeball, @stephdujarric and @glynmoody

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

Lawmakers propose USA Freedom Act to curb NSA's powers

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Reuters:

Brazil to insist on local Internet data storage after U.S. spying

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter Apps For iOS, Android And Web Get In-Stream Video And Image Previews — Twitter today shipped an update that adds in-stream video and image previews to the main feed in its iOS, Android and web apps. Previously you would have to tap on links for images via Twitter or video service Vine.

More: Twitter, Engadget, New York Times, Digits, Wired, Digital Trends, TechHive, Marketing Land, iMore, PC World, The Verge, AllThingsD, MacRumors, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Digiday, 9to5Google, CNET, Business Insider, pocketnow.com and Marketing Pilgrim

Tweets: @jvanslem, @benedictevans, @rsarver, @rsarver, @levie, @hunterwalk, @cwarzel, @mikeisaac, @mattbuchanan, @piercedavid and @panzer

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Adobe Breach Impacted At Least 38 Million Users — The recent data breach at Adobe that exposed user account information and prompted a flurry of password reset emails impacted at least 38 million users, the company now says. It also appears that the already massive source code leak at Adobe …

More: GeekWire, PC World, Engadget, The Verge, SlashGear, CNET, Pocket-lint, ZDNet, Softpedia News and Help Net Security

Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

Samsung is pulling another Amazon on Android, but this is even bigger — As much as Google likes and touts that Android is open, that freedom may come with the cost of some control over the platform. Amazon may have started the first truly successful “fork” of Android, but Samsung is going after the whole place setting.

More: Businessweek, Gigaom Search and Beyond Search

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Beats In Q3 With Revenue of $393M, EPS of $0.39, But Weak Q4 Guidance Sends Its Stock Lower — LinkedIn reported its third-quarter earnings today, with revenue of $393 million (up 56 percent) and earnings per share of $0,39. Analysts had expected LinkedIn to earn $0.31 per share, on revenue of $385 million.

More: LinkedIn, VatorNews, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, AllThingsD, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet and WebProNews. Thanks:@pickavet

Lance Whitney / CNET:

Samsung shipped more phones than Nokia, Apple, LG combined — Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 helped it win 29 percent of the mobile phone market. — (Credit: CNET) — Samsung shipped a record 120.1 million phone phones last quarter, beating Nokia, Apple, and LG combined, Strategy Analytics said on Tuesday.

More: IDC, Strategy Analytics, Examiner, 9to5Google, Computerworld, TechCrunch, The Register, Droid Life, NYT Bits, Digits, WebProNews, ZDNet and I4U News. Tweets: @cnet

Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

Yelp Misses on Earnings, Beats on Revenue in Q3 — Yelp just announced that it posted a third-quarter loss per share, excluding certain items, of four cents on higher-than-expected revenue of $61.2 million. — Wall Street analysts had been expecting, on average, earnings of one cent per share on $59.4 million in revenue.

More: Tech Trader Daily, Yelp, TechCrunch, MarketWatch and Reuters

Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

Warily, Schools Watch Students on the Internet — SAN FRANCISCO — For years, a school principal's job was to make sure students were not creating a ruckus in the hallways or smoking in the bathroom. Vigilance ended at the schoolhouse gates. — Now, as students complain …

Tweets: @kelseylsheehy and @dangillmor

Nicole Perlroth / NYT Bits:

New Vulnerability Found in Apps Using Wi-Fi — Public wi-fi networks are notoriously insecure, and now there's this: Mobile security researchers have discovered a new way for attackers to access mobile phone apps from wi-fi networks. — On Tuesday, mobile security researchers will demonstrate …

More: Skycure, Examiner, Engadget, Ars Technica, SecurityWeek, PadGadget and iPhone in Canada Blog

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Dell officially goes private under founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners — The company has promised a renewed focus on tablets — The long delayed and contested buyout of Dell Computers by its founder, Michael Dell, and the private equity firm Silverlake, has finally wrapped up today.

More: Business Wire, InfoWorld, eWeek, Computerworld, New York Times, Forbes, TechSpot, Engadget, AllThingsD and SlashGear

Jason Wilson / VentureBeat:

Oculus Rift virtual reality headset coming to mobile — but just Android, not iOS [corrected] — REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Virtual reality meets today's mobile reality. Oculus VR announced that it's bringing its virtual-reality headset, the Oculus Rift, to mobile gaming.

More: MacRumors, Gizmodo, GeekWire, Touch Arcade and The Pocket Gamer Podcast

Steven Levy / Wired:

Google Channels Pixar to Change Storytelling as We Know It — An early concept drawing for Windy Day by Japanese illustrator Tadahiro Uesugi, the Annie Award-winning production designer of Coraline. — A painted version of the Tadahiro sketch. — A character sketch from animation director …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web and Business Insider

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