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November 3, 2013, 8:05 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Henri Lamiraux, Apple's top iOS Engineering Vice President, leaves company after 23 years — Henri Lamiraux, Apple's top Vice President of Engineering for the iOS iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system has left the company, according to a source and corroborated by his LinkedIn profile.

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Fred Wilson / A VC:

The Billion Dollar Valuation Club — Aileen Lee has a really good post up on TechCrunch, in which she analyzes the number of companies that have been started since 2003 that have gone on to be worth $1bn or more. — This is a very useful exercise in the VC business since it is these big wins …

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Aileen Lee / TechCrunch:

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Scott Shane / New York Times:

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Caroline Copley / Reuters:

Swisscom builds ‘Swiss Cloud’ as spying storm rages — (Reuters) - Swisscom is building a “Swiss Cloud” that could loosen the grip of U.S. technology giants and attract foreign companies looking for a way to shield sensitive data from the prying eyes of foreign intelligence services.

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Washington Post:

HealthCare.gov: How political fear was pitted against technical needs — In May 2010, two months after the Affordable Care Act squeaked through Congress, President Obama's top economic aides were getting worried. Larry Summers, director of the White House's National Economic Council …

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo's Mayer on the Talent Hunt for Tech Journalists (Even From AllThingsD!) — This weekend, a Yahoo recruiter tried to poach two of our fine AllThingsD reporters for what was described as a “new initiative within our Tech Vertical.” — According to the recruiter, who used LinkedIn for the outreach …

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Kristina Shevory / New York Times:

Twitter and other tech companies spur office construction boom in SF's Mid-Market and SoMa — Twitter Helps Revive a Seedy San Francisco Neighborhood — SAN FRANCISCO — The middle stretch of Market Street here has befuddled mayors, investors and entrepreneurs for decades.

Tweets: @benparr, @zseward, @jilliancyork, @joshelman, @rsarver, @rsarver and @pkafka

Richard Waters / Financial Times:

Bill Gates stands separate from peers with focus on disease over internet connectivity — An exclusive interview with Bill Gates — The internet is not going to save the world, says the Microsoft co-founder, whatever Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley's tech billionaires believe.

More: The Verge, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Gigaom Search, Digits, Forbes, Business Insider, T3 News, The Atlantic Wire, CNET and WebProNews. Tweets: @rupertmurdoch

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Plotting The Way To IPO, Twitter's Product Roadmap Has Become Too Data Driven — In its rush towards becoming a public company, Twitter is in danger of sacrificing focus on the altar of growth. And it's doing it with decisions based heavily on data and testing, rather than with an overall vision.

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Netflix starts testing 4K videos, wants to launch Ultra HD next year — Netflix quietly added a handful of 4K HD videos to its catalog this week to prepare itself for a wider launch of ultra high-definition video content in the coming months. So far, the titles added to the catalog …

More: Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, Newsy, The Verge, Digital Trends, TechSpot, Engadget, iClarified, Mashable, DisplayBlog, Softpedia News, SlashGear and T3 News. Tweets: @qthrul

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

iPad Air Delivers 24 Hours of Battery Life as LTE Hotspot — A year ago during my review of the LTE iPad 3 I decided to find out how long the iPad would last as a personal hotspot. With the display off and a single notebook tethered wirelessly to the iPad downloading at a constant 50KB/s …

More: ZDNet, Gotta Be MobileGotta Be Mobile, CNET, iClarified, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog and Fierce CIO Tech Watch

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