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October 29, 2013, 9:20 PM

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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, Digits, Digital Trends, PC World, AppleTell, Slate, Marketing Land, iMore, WebProNews, pocketnow.com, IntoMobile, everythingiCafe, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, The Verge and The Next Web

Tweets: @vindugoel, @benedictevans, @rsarver, @levie, @benedictevans, @mattbuchanan, @mikeisaac, @rsarver, @piercedavid and @hunterwalk

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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Twitter tries to entice new users with media previews, facilitates banner ads — Twitter pulls a Facebook, fills your stream with photos and videos — but will it help or hurt? — Twitter quietly rolled out a new feature — or irritant, depending on how you look at it …

More: InfoWorld, Wired, Digiday, TechHive, Daily Dot and Marketing Pilgrim

Tweets: @bmorrissey, @bryce, @seanbonner, @mathewi, @jvanslem, @cwarzel and @panzer

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Favorite, Reply, RT now directly in Twitter feed, reducing the threshold for sharing, virality — Why Twitter Just Turned Itself Inside Out — Clicking is dead, scrolling is king. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the fight for the ultimate feed. — dailydot.com

Tweets: @andrewphelps

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 …

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, Ubergizmo, VatorNews, ABC News, AllFacebook, ZDNet, CNET, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com, iDownloadBlog.com, CrackBerry.com, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, TechnoBuffalo and Business Insider

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 …

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, Google, Search Engine Watch, ABC News, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Engadget, The Next Web, IntoMobile and Mercury News

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

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

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

More: Digits, Reuters and 9to5Google. Tweets: @marypcbuk

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Can Google dominate live video with Hangouts on Air?

More: Softpedia News and 9to5Google. Tweets: @backlon

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

“Manufacturing issue” responsible for fast battery drain on “limited number” of iPhone 5Ss — Shortened Battery Life Found in Some New iPhones — The Apple iPhone 5S is supposed to have significantly longer battery life than its predecessors.

More: New York Times, The Verge, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Business Insider, CNET, Engadget, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com and The Next Web

Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:

Speed and Power Packed Into a Thin iPad Air — One reason for the phenomenal success of the iPad has been Apple's ability to pack speed and versatility into a thin, light body with long battery life. It doesn't do everything a laptop does, but for many common scenarios, it has replaced the laptop as its owners' go-to device.

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, The Loop, New York Times, Gizmodo, Business Insider, A Note from Pogue, Associated Press and Mashable. Thanks:@sidharthdassani

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

iPad Air review: lighter, more portable, more usable and faster than any previous iPad — The iPad Air Review — It seemed like a foregone conclusion that the 10-inch tablet market was done for, with all interest and excitement shifting to smaller, but equally capable 7 or 8-inch tablets instead.

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: NYT Bits, InfoWorld, Business Insider, The Verge, CNET, SlashGear, ZDNet, GeekWire and Help Net Security

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: @stephdujarric, @glynmoody and @jujueyeball

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

Lawmakers propose USA Freedom Act to curb NSA's powers

More: The Verge, Wired, SiliconBeat, ITworld.com and Reuters

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, AllThingsD, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet and WebProNews. Thanks:@pickavet

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

Jason Green / Mercury News:

Steve Jobs house added as ‘historic resource’ — The humble home where Silicon Valley tech titan Steve Jobs built some of his first computers and co-founded Apple was added to a list of historic Los Altos properties Monday night. — The Los Altos Historical Commission voted unanimously …

More: CNET, Guardian, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, SlashGear, The Mac Observer, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, InvestorPlace, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo and MacNN

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Google shows off second gen Google Glass w/ mono earbud coming later this year — After announcing yesterday that Google Glass hardware would be revised later this year and offered to current Glass Explorers interested in swapping to a newer unit, Google today gives us a look …

More: The Verge, TechHive, Marketing Land, Engadget, ZDNet, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Mashable, Gotta Be Mobile, Glass Almanac, Android Beat, Android Police, TechnoBuffalo, Droid Life, IntoMobile and Phandroid. Thanks:@jordankahn

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 and Gigaom Search

Wall Street Journal:

Infosys faces record $35M fine in U.S. for using visitor visas instead of work visas — U.S. to Hit Infosys With Record Immigration Fine — Indian Outsourcing Firm Expected to Pay About $35 Million for Illegal Use of Visas — The federal government is set to slap Infosys Ltd …

More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Times of India, New York Times, Ashwin Sharma, thehindubusinessline.com, India & World and Gigaom

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Social Video Startup Magisto Raises $13 Million From Qualcomm And Sandisk — Once upon a time, seemingly everyone was creating mobile apps to help users shoot, edit, and share videos with one another. Thanks to a desire to build or invest in the “Instagram for video,” …

More: Gigaom, Beet.TV and Adobe. Tweets: @harnevo

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, Computerworld, 9to5Google, Examiner, TechCrunch, The Register, NYT Bits, Digits, Droid Life, ZDNet and WebProNews

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: @dangillmor

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