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November 11, 2013, 9:45 AM
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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Apple said to develop 4.7 and 5.5 inch curved iPhones for late 2014 release, pressure-sensitive screens for later models  —  Apple Said Developing Curved IPhone Screens, Enhanced Sensors  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) is developing new iPhone designs including bigger screens with curved glass …
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon to Begin Sunday Deliveries, With Post Office's Help  —  Experiment Is Web Retailer's Latest Speed Initiative … Amazon.com Inc. will begin delivering packages on Sundays in the nation's two largest cities later this month with an unlikely partner—the United States Postal Service.
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Microsoft shouldn't hire any CEO who wants to kill Bing and Xbox  —  According to “people with knowledge of his thinking,” Bloomberg is reporting that, should Stephen Elop become Microsoft's next CEO, he would consider shutting down or selling parts of the company to “sharpen its focus.”
Benedict Evans:
Facebook's acquisition of Instagram is looking strategically irrelevant  —  Instagram and Youtube  —  Instagram is looking like a great acquisition.  It had 30m users when Facebook bought it in April 2012, and has now passed 150m, just 18m later.  —  (The change in colour signifies the acquisition.)
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets.  —  At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for prospective students.  Throughout the presentation, she apparently posted disparaging comments …
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
New iWork: Another Missed Opportunity To Set Expectations  —  With the 5.0 iWork suite we revisit Apple's propensity to make lofty claims that fall short of reality.  The repetition of such easily avoidable mistakes is puzzling and leads us to question what causes Apple executives to squander the company's well-deserved goodwill.
More: Guardian and ZDNet.  Tweets: @marypcbuk, @gassee and @roddrury
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
UK spies continue “quantum insert” attack via LinkedIn, Slashdot pages  —  According to a new report (German) by Der Spiegel, the British signals intelligence spy agency has again employed a “quantum insert” technique as a way to target employees (Google Translate) of two companies that are GRX (Global Roaming Exchange) providers.
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Vox Media buying Curbed Network (including Curbed, Eater, and Racked) for $20-$30 Million  —  Vox Media Buying Curbed.com Network of Sites  —  Vox Media, a company with three strong digital brands, including the technology site The Verge, is adding to its portfolio.
Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:
More Business Graduates Opt for Tech Over Wall Street  —  Harvard and Other Elite Schools Look Elsewhere as Finance Loses Its Lustre … A record number of business school graduates from top schools are choosing jobs in the technology sector, as interest in finance continues to show marked declines.

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Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:
Graydon Carter opens a physical store called Air Mail Newsstand in NYC, as an extension of his digital newsletter Air Mail, selling books, magazines, and more

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav's 2023 compensation package was worth $49.7M, up 26.5% from the year prior, with $23.1M in stock awards

Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Interviews with over a dozen current and former WAMU staffers and contractors show management's contradictory, unclear messaging about its closure of DCist

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