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November 4, 2013, 5:50 AM

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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.
Tim Cook / Wall Street Journal:
Apple CEO Tim Cook pens op-ed urging Congress to pass bill prohibiting anti-gay discrimination  —  Tim Cook: Workplace Equality Is Good for Business  —  Long before I started work as the CEO of Apple, I became aware of a fundamental truth: People are much more willing to give of themselves …
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 …
Tweets: @mathewi
Aileen Lee / TechCrunch:
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Disruptions: Under a New Chief, Yahoo Still Seeks Its Voice  —  In Google's early days, when employees were preparing to release a new project, they had to make a pilgrimage to see Marissa Mayer, employee No. 20, and the head of design and user interface.  This was not fun.
Tweets: @samgustin and @om
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 …
Ian Brown / Guardian:
Will NSA revelations lead to the Balkanisation of the internet?  —  As countries move to protect their citizens' digital privacy, Ian Brown considers their options and the potential impact  —  There has been criticism of America's National Security Agency and Britain's GCHQ from Latin American nations …
More: Guardian
Scott Shane / New York Times:
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 …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Apparent hack of limo reservation service exposes 850k customers, including VIPs and celebs  —  Hackers Take Limo Service Firm for a Ride  —  A hacker break in at a U.S. company that brokers reservations for limousine and Town Car services nationwide has exposed the personal and financial information …
More: Gizmodo and I4U News
Businessweek:
T-Mobile's Wacky Plan to Trash the Wireless Business Model  —  John Legere smiled, the kind of smile reserved for a man who knows he has already won and is just waiting to announce it.  Legere, chief executive officer of T-Mobile US (TMUS), the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the country …
Tweets: @robpegoraro
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Samsung Extends Agreement to License Nokia Patents, Though Deal's Price Tag Yet to Be Determined  —  Nokia announced Monday that Samsung has extended for five years a patent agreement that was set to expire at the end of this year.  —  However, a clause in the deal means that the price …
More: ZDNet, TechCrunch and Nokia
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.

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