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DealBook:
Live Blog: Tracking Twitter's I.P.O.  —  Twitter begins life as a public company on Thursday, and DealBook will be following the first day of trading as it happens.  —  The social media service, which began as a side project at a podcasting company in 2006, priced its shares at $26 on Wednesday night …
Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:
The Architect Behind Twitter's IPO … The architect of Twitter Inc.'s initial public offering is a 42-year-old finance whiz with a knack for finding calm amid chaos.  —  For four months, Twitter Chief Financial Officer Mike Gupta steered the social-media company through the IPO process …
More: CNBC.  Tweets: @wsj and @yoreekoh
Stephen Gandel / Fortune:
In Twitter IPO, Wall Street reserved best info for top clients  —  Twitter's investment bankers are telling their clients one thing while Main Street hears a different story.  —  FORTUNE — Once again, Wall Street is telling its top paying clients one thing, and the rest of us are getting a different story.
Tweets: @joshconstine and @eghosao
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
AT&T will include Lookout security software on all Android devices from now on  —  Security is a sensitive subject for Android users: Google has long maintained that anti-virus and malware prevention software isn't a necessity on its platform, but companies like Symantec regularly sound …
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Autodesk invests $10 million in Deviantart  —  Autodesk has invested $10 million in the Los Angeles-based digital art community Deviantart.  Word about the investment first got out in September, but an SEC filing now adds further details, showing that Autodesk invested a total of $10.04 million in the company.
More: VCPOST and VentureBeat
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.
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 …
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.
Justin Bachman / Businessweek:
Blockbuster's Death Scene Won't End the Video Rental Store  —  The long-foretold death of the video rental shop—all but sealed Wednesday with news that Blockbuster will shut its last 300 stores in the U.S.—can be read as a wistful moment for retail nostalgics or a proud triumph of digital simplicity.
MarketWatch:
Blockbuster to End Domestic Retail, DVD By Mail Services
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Prominent VCs join the fight in Congress to stop patent trolls  —  VCs say it's harder for startups to survive with patent trolls waiting in the wings to make a quick buck.  —  startuppg  —  The first comprehensive anti-patent-troll bill was introduced in Congress last week, with bipartisan support.
More: bizjournals and TheHill.  Tweets: @joemullin
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 …

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
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