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November 7, 2013, 5:15 AM

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@twitter:

We just priced our IPO. pic.twitter.com/NWXaO4Myq0

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Bloomberg:

Twitter raises $1.82 billion at a valuation of $18.1 billion, pricier value than Facebook — Twitter Raises $1.82 Billion, Pricier Value Than Facebook — Twitter Inc. (TWTR) raised $1.82 billion in its initial public offering, seizing on surging investor demand to price at a more expensive valuation than rival Facebook Inc. (FB)

More: BBC

Peter Eavis / DealBook:

Twitter's Market Valuation Suggests Wall St. Sees Huge Growth Potential — Twitter is a young company generating large losses as it competes in a highly uncertain sector of the economy. — And that is exactly why investors clamored for a piece of its initial public offering, which closed on Wednesday evening.

Douglas MacMillan / Digits:

Square Exploring 2014 IPO With Banks — Technology entrepreneur Jack Dorsey is trying to pull off two high-profile initial public offerings in the span of one year. — Square Inc., the payments startup with a square credit-card reader that plugs into Apple and Android-based mobile devices …

More: San Francisco Chronicle, Inc.com, Business Insider, Electronista, MoneyBeat, bizjournals, The Verge and CNET

Tweets: @cnbcnow, @danprimack, @scottmaustin and @dmac1

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Minting Cash: how Square designed a product with no design at all — Is the best interface no interface? — Robert Andersen was feeling flustered. Square founder Jack Dorsey had asked him to design a product that was so simple, it wouldn't even have an interface. “Square Cash” would let people send money over email.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Updates Office 365, Brings Real-Time Collaboration To Free Office Web Apps, Adds Yammer To All Enterprise Versions — It's been six months since Microsoft launched Office 365, its subscription-based version of Office for businesses and consumers. Over 2 million consumers now subscribe …

More: The Microsoft Office Blog, LiveSide.net, CNET, ZDNet, The Verge, The Microsoft Office Blog, The Microsoft Office Blog, Engadget, The Next Web, Ars Technica, PC World, The Microsoft Office Blog and SlashGear

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple Stores to soon offer iPhone 5s & 5c screen replacements, other repairs — Apple is gearing up to soon begin hardware repairs for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c in its chain of retail stores, according to sources with knowledge of the upcoming initiative.

More: MacRumors, Softpedia News, Gearburn, I4U News, App Advice, iClarified and Byteoid. Thanks:@sarahg1113

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Google Says Its Mystery Barges May Be Used As Interactive Space Where People Can Learn About Its Technology — Google has issued a statement (finally?) about its months-long mystery barge project. The barges, which are anchored in both Portland, Maine and San Francisco …

More: USA Today, Mercury News, NYT Bits, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, GeekWire, CNET, PC Magazine, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid, Gotta Be Mobile, Digital Trends, ABC News, Computerworld, SlashGear, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, The Verge, blog.chron.com, Ars Technica, San Francisco Chronicle, 9to5Google, Digits, BGR, Business Insider and Engadget

Tweets: @davidramli and @dannysullivan

DISH Network:

Blockbuster to End Domestic Retail, DVD By Mail Services — ENGLEWOOD, Colo.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) today announced that its subsidiary, Blockbuster L.L.C., will end its retail and by mail DVD distribution operations by early-January 2014.

Justin Bachman / Businessweek:

Blockbuster's Death Scene Won't End the Video Rental Store

More: New York Times and ParisLemon. See also Mediagazer

Brian Heater / Engadget:

Amazon Kindle HDX 8.9 review: a high-end tablet at a mid-range price — It's worth noting just how far Amazon has come since the early days of the Fire line. With the first generation, it was tough to see the tablet as anything more than a content-delivery device designed to keep users locked into the Kindle ecosystem.

More: TechHive, The Verge, Mashable and CNET

Will Connors / Digits:

Full Text of BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins Goodbye Letter — Earlier this week, BlackBerry called off a plan to go private but did make a big change in the executive suite: Chief Executive Thorsten Heins is out, to be replaced by Silicon Valley veteran John S. Chen.

More: BerryReview, The Verge, CrackBerry.com and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @wconnors

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

The Nexus 5 isn't pure Android, it's pure Google — In this, the fifth year of Android's existence, we also have seen the release of the fifth Nexus phone — appropriately enough called the Nexus 5. Meanwhile, it's been two years since we saw the release of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich …

More: Computerworld, pocketnow.com, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, Phandroid, ZDNet, PhoneArena and Droid Life. Thanks:@aashutoshvatsa

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Samsung admits its software needs improving, commits half of R&D workforce — Samsung is just like the Red Sox — Samsung today admitted it needs to work on software, an area it's “not as good” at as hardware. Samsung Vice Chairman & CEO Kwon Oh-hyun compares the company's software efforts …

More: iDownloadBlog.com, TechSpot, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, iClarified, FierceWireless, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, 9to5Google, ZDNet, SlashGear and The Next Web

Steven Millward / Tech in Asia:

Samsung says 100 million Galaxy S and Note phones will ship this year, coins terrible word “fonblet”

More: The Verge, TechCrunch and Gizmodo

Tweets: @phonewisdom and @darth

Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

Google starts testing ART, a potential replacement for Dalvik in Android — After a 2010 spat over how Java works in Android with Oracle, Google is moving on to a new way for apps run on mobile devices. Dubbed ART, the new runtime environment is available as a preview option in Android 4.4.

More: Android Police, Android Beat, DIGITS to DOLLARS, Engadget and Android Community

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Microsoft Is Making An Astonishing $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties — Microsoft is generating $2 billion per year in revenue from Android patent royalties, says Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund in a new note on the company. — He estimates that the Android revenue has a 95% margin, so it's pretty much all profit.

More: Guardian, BGR and Daring Fireball

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Facebook redesigns the Like button for the first time — When you're redesigning the Like button, which appears on over 7.5 million websites, the details count. Every pixel you change, color you swap, and drop-shadow you alter will get seen 22 billion times per day, Facebook says.

More: Facebook Developer Blog, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, AllFacebook, Gizmodo, Soshable, The Next Web and Engadget

David Ruddock / Android Police:

Verizon: Google, Asus Have Opted To Wait Until Nexus 7 Gets KitKat To Certify For Use On Network, “Systems Issue” With 4.3 To Blame — We've received an official statement from Verizon on the ongoing Nexus 7 LTE / Verizon saga, a story that has gone silent in the months since Verizon promised …

More: BuzzMachine, Phones Review, The Verge, Droid Life, IntoMobile and pocketnow.com

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

YouTube Starts Rolling Out Its New Commenting System Based On Google+ — In September, YouTube announced that it would soon roll out a new commenting system powered by Google+. After testing it on channel discussion tabs for a few weeks, it's now starting to roll it out to all videos on the site.

More: YouTube Blog, The Verge, Phandroid, Softpedia News, The Next Web, CNET, SlashGear, ITworld.com, Marketing Pilgrim, Android Central, Engadget, Music Ally, WebProNews, 9to5Google and Google Operating System. Tweets: @dujkan. Thanks:@fredericl

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

New Google Maps For Desktop Brings Back Pegman, Adds Waze Data And 3D Earth Tours — Google today launched an update to its new Google Maps for desktop that brings traffic data from Waze to the desktop for the first time (it's already integrated into the mobile Maps apps).

More: Google LatLong, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, Mashable, Google Operating System and The Next Web

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft and Facebook sponsor Internet Bug Bounty program, offer cash for hacking the Internet stack — Microsoft and Facebook today jointly launched a new initiative called the Internet Bug Bounty program. In short, the two companies are looking to secure the Internet stack by rewarding anyone …

More: The Verge, Ars Technica, Digits, Engadget, Softpedia News, ZDNet and The Register. Tweets: @csoghoian

Derrick Harris / Gigaom:

Facebook open sources its SQL-on-Hadoop engine, and the web rejoices — Facebook has open sourced Presto, the interactive SQL-on-Hadoop engine the company first discussed in June. Presto is Facebook's take on Cloudera's Impala or Google's Dremel, and it already has some big-name fans in Dropbox and Airbnb.

More: Facebook, GitHub, AllFacebook, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Register, Computerworld and The Next Web

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

‘Silk Road 2.0’ Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web — The Silk Road is dead. But the dark web dream lives on. — On Wednesday morning, Silk Road 2. came online, promising a new and slightly improved version of the anonymous black market for drugs …

More: Ars Technica, All Things VICE, The Verge, TechCrunch, Examiner, Gizmodo, Daily Dot, CoinDesk, Guardian, VICE, Gawker, Salon and VentureBeat

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