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November 6, 2013, 10:00 PM

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Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Twitter announces IPO pricing of $26 per share with a valuation of $18.3 billion  —  Twitter announced on Wednesday that it will price its IPO at $26 per share when it begins trading on Thursday.  The company plans to sell 70 million shares out of a total of 545 million outstanding shares.
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 …
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 …
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.
Stefan Constantinescu / Android Beat:
Samsung's Analyst Day: Custom ARM core, 560 PPI displays in 2014, and 4K phones in 2015  —  Samsung just finished hosting their second ever analyst event in South Korea.  Admittedly I didn't listen to all seven of the presentations given due to time constraints, but I did download …
Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
HealthCare.gov's head tech guy is out  —  A Medicare official who oversaw HealthCare.gov's botched launch will leave the federal government for the private sector, according to an e-mail sent late Tuesday to Medicare employees.  —  Tony Trenkle is the chief information officer at the Center …
More: New York Times, The Verge and MashableTweets: @fmanjoo
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 …
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.
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 Register, Ars Technica and ZDNetTweets: @csoghoian

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