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November 5, 2013, 2:30 PM

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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

IPad Air Has Spendier Display, Costs Less to Make Than Earlier Models — There's a new iPad in town, and that means that folks at the research firm IHS are once again doing what they do best: Taking it apart for a look inside. — In the latest of its teardown analysis reports obtained by AllThingsD …

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

iPad Air topped by Kindle Fire HDX in display quality test — Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9: Apple's new iPad Air has a good display, but it's not as good as the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9's, according to DisplayMate Technologies. — (Credit: Amazon) — The iPad Air is getting plenty of rave reviews …

More: DisplayMate, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, T3 News, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, DisplayBlog and Gizmodo

Om Malik / Gigaom:

To live and die in public: That's Twitter — My affair with Twitter, the idea, began over seven years ago. — It was at a party, a few blocks from where I live and work — San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. I was hanging outside, sucking on a stogie, and chatting with Twitter's forgotten co-creator, Noah Glass.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @raanan, @jocke, @jasonhiner, @narendra and @joshmedia

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

The Three Reasons Twitter Didn't Sell To Facebook

More: The Switch and TechHive

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

In “Hatching Twitter,” a Billion-Dollar Company That Almost Wasn't

More: Wired, Bloomberg, PandoDaily and Mashable

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Everpix is shutting down after acquisition offers from Path and others fall through — Out of the picture: why the world's best photo startup is going out of business — Everpix was great. This is how it died. — One day last month, the seven employees of Everpix gathered …

More: Everpix Blog, TechCrunch, The Next Web, SlashGear and TUAW

Tweets: @ashleymayer, @dancounsell, @hamburger, @siracusa, @caseynewton, @andrewchen and @caseynewton

Thanks:@mattlynley

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Responding to MacKenzie Bezos's One-Star Slapdown — One of the gratifying and terrifying things about writing a book in 2013 is that anyone can immediately publish their review of it. Yesterday, a reader of my book, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, did just that.

More: New York Times, GeekWire, Business Insider, TechCrunch, SiliconBeat, CNET, Beyond Search and AllThingsD

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @pkafka

iFixit:

Nexus 5 Teardown — KitKats, snapdragons, unlocked? Google is making us feel like we've got the golden ticket, as we head into Willy Wonka's—er, the Nexus 5. Will Google's latest smartphone be a sweet treat? Or will we be having nightmares of green-haired Oompa Loompas mocking us in rhyme?

More: Engadget, Inquirer, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, CNET, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, Laughing Squid, MobileSyrup.com, SlashGear, Phandroid, WebProNews and Android Authority

The Independent:

Revealed: Britain's ‘secret listening post in the heart of Berlin’ — Claims that GCHQ has maintained spying operations even after US pulled out — Concerns were raised tonight that Britain operates a top-secret listening post from its Berlin embassy to eavesdrop on the seat of German power.

More: Softpedia News. Tweets: @nigelpmorris

L'Espresso:

Cyprus: the home of British/American Internet surveillance in the Middle East — British and US Internet surveillance in the Middle East and surrounding regions occurs from a secret base on the island of Cyprus, as l'Espresso, the German daily “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”, the Greek daily “Ta Nea” and the Greek channel “AlphaTV” can reveal.

More: The Verge. Tweets: @csoghoian and @csoghoian

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Introduced at iPhone 5s event, M7-integrated Nike+ Move fitness app launches — Introduced by Apple at the September 10 iPhone 5s event, Nike has launched its Nike+ Move application for the iPhone 5s. The app was originally scheduled to arrive on November 6th alongside the new FuelBand SE hardware …

More: The Next Web, TechHive, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, CNET, Engadget, AppleInsider, The Verge, PC Magazine, whatmobile.net, I4U News, Gigaom, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, Laughing Squid, Phones Review, MacRumors, iMore and TUAW. Tweets: @pschiller. Thanks:@markgurman

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Target Offering $200 Gift Card for iPad Trade-in, Including First Generation — From November 3 to November 9, Target is running an in-store promotion for its trade-in program that provides customers with a gift card worth at least $200 for any iPad, including low value first-generation models. iPads …

More: PC Magazine, Engadget, Business Insider, iMore, Gigaom, The Verge, Penny Arcade Report, Geek Beat Technology News, PadGadget, Mashable, Cult of Mac, whatmobile.net, everythingiCafe and TUAW

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Justin Bieber invests $1.1m in teen-focused social network “Shots Of Me”, launching this week — Exclusive: Justin Bieber invests in new social network — Justin Bieber backs new teen-focused platform from founders of RockLive games. — FORTUNE — A new teen-focused social …

More: ABC News, SiliconBeat, Examiner, The Verge, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, Valleywag, SlashGear, Telegraph, memeburn, Newsy, hypebot, TIME and VentureBeat

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Google Launches Helpouts, Paid Video Chats With Experts To Address Whatever Is Bothering You Right Now — Helpouts, Google's fusion of Google+ Hangouts, Google Wallet, and its identity tools is now live. A ‘Helpout’ is a Hangout-like video chat, but instead of speaking with a friend …

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Google Search iOS app gets massive update w/ ‘OK Google’ handsfree voice search, notifications, reminders, much more — The Google Search iOS app has received a huge update today that brings a number of new features including the ability to activate voice search handsfree.

More: Engadget, The Next Web, CNET, Gigaom, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, iMore, MacRumors, MobileSyrup.com, SlashGear and TUAW

Brad Molen / Engadget:

LG's G Flex actually flexes (video) — We've known for a while that LG's upcoming G Flex smartphone features a pretty noticeable arc from top to bottom, but thanks to a source who's spent some time with the device, we now know that the phone is more aptly named than we first suspected.

More: The Verge, Examiner, Gizmodo, Business Insider, SlashGear, Phandroid, iPhone Hacks, Android Beat, PhoneArena and 9to5Google

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

Acer CEO resigns as company posts record loss — Just 24 hours after one tech heavyweight lost its CEO, another has been forced to bow out of the game. After his company posted a huge loss and wrote off a chunk of value from sub-brands Gateway and Packard Bell, Acer CEO and Chairman JT Wang has decided to resign.

More: Acer, Reuters, Ars Technica, PC World, NYT Bits, Gigaom, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web, The Verge, ZDNet, whatmobile.net and The Tech Report

Globe and Mail:

Lenovo pursued BlackBerry bid, but Ottawa rejected idea — OTTAWA and TORONTO — The Globe and Mail — Beijing-based computer manufacturer Lenovo Group Ltd. actively considered a bid for BlackBerry Ltd., but the Canadian government told the smartphone company it would not accept …

More: ZDNet, The Verge, BerryReview, Telecom Trends and n4bb.com

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

HTC Quarterly Sales Forecast Misses Estimates on Weak Demand — HTC Corp. (2498), the Taiwanese smartphone maker which had its first loss on record last month, forecast sales that missed analyst estimates for a second straight quarter as new models fail to spur demand.

More: Wall Street Journal, The Verge, 9to5Google, PC Magazine, Tech in Asia, CNET, pocketnow.com, PhoneArena, Reuters, TechCrunch and TechnoBuffalo

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Q3 Beats Street On Sales Of $561M; Net Income Weighed Down By $25M Patch Restructuring — AOL (owner of TechCrunch) today reported its Q3 earnings with a 6% rise in revenues over a year ago to $561 million, led by growth in its advertising business, specifically around the premium ad formats …

More: AllThingsD, CNET, Reuters, VentureBeat, AdExchanger, WebProNews and Softpedia News. Tweets: @mattlindner. See also Mediagazer

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

T-Mobile US: 1M net customers, 5.6M smartphone sales — Summary: The fourth largest U.S. cell network posted positive results for the second consecutive quarter, thanks to strong net customer additions and smartphone sales. — Zack Whittaker — For the second consecutive quarter as a public company …

More: AllThingsD, AllThingsD, eWeek, The Verge, AppleInsider, Tech Trader Daily, CNET, 9to5Mac, Gigaom, MacRumors, GeekWire, iMore, IntoMobile, Bloomberg, TmoNews, Engadget, Reuters, VentureBeat, PhoneArena and WebProNews. Tweets: @inafried

Michael Berkens / TheDomains.com:

Demand Media's Domain Services Spinoff Is Rightside.co & Names Taryn Naidu As CEO — Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD), that it has selected the name Rightside Group, Ltd. ("Rightside") for the spun off domain services business. — The company is going with the domain name Rightside.co.

More: GeekWire, EON, AllThingsD and Domain Name Wire

Wall Street Journal:

China Buys Its Way Into Silicon Valley — Tencent's Push for Stake in Snapchat Is Latest Effort to Gain Foothold in U.S. — China's homegrown Internet giants are buying their way into Silicon Valley. — The Chinese firms, which have little consumer business outside their home market …

More: Roy Murdock and Valleywag. Tweets: @jasonzweigwsj

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

AWS launches GPU instances, mobile app developer tools — Summary: Amazon Web Services and Nvidia are launching cloud services designed to move GPUs beyond high performance computing to SaaS companies. — Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched a new type of instance using Nvidia Grid …

More: Amazon.com, GeekWire, Amazon.com, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Marketwired, Gigaom and WebProNews

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Sync, BitTorrent's Server-Less Dropbox Competitor, Hits 1M Active Users, Now Available As An API — Sync, a file synchronization service from P2P platform BitTorrent that works as a kind of server-less Dropbox, has picked up some good traction since launching earlier this year …

More: TorrentFreak, BetaNews, The Official BitTorrent Blog, Engadget, Guardian, The Official BitTorrent Blog, Digital Trends, Forbes, VentureBeat and The Next Web

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