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November 10, 2013, 3:45 PM

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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 …

Cam Simpson / Businessweek:

An iPhone Tester Caught in Apple's Supply Chain — Beneath the spotlight in a San Francisco performing arts theater, Apple (AAPL) marketing chief Phil Schiller was about to stage-manage one of the most anticipated product unveilings of the year. It was the first post-Steve Jobs reveal of a new iPhone.

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Matt Richtel / New York Times:

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams hopes Medium will surface rationality in the cacophony — A Founder of Twitter Goes Long — Between downtown San Francisco and the new Twitter offices six city blocks to the west, things get sketchy. There is a strip club, a budget motel with weekly rates and …

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David Meyer / Gigaom:

Smartphone cameras can give away PIN codes, researchers warn — Correction: This article originally said the user's eyes were what gave away the code, but it is in fact the orientation inferred from captured images that do so. — Researchers at the University of Cambridge have come …

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Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Three 20-year-olds build their own version of Healthcare.gov — A trio of programmers in San Francisco have built their own version of Healthcare.gov, the federal insurance marketplace that has had serious technical issues since launching on October 1st, over the course of “a few late nights.”

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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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Esha Chhabra / New York Times:

Ubiquitous Across Globe, Cellphones Have Become Tool for Doing Good — The cellphone has become more of a tool and less of a toy, especially among the poor, and those trying to help them, in emerging markets. It helps deliver, via text message, water, energy, financial services, health care and even education.

More: MediaNama

Dan Primack / Fortune:

How Twitter's largest outside investor tricked me — Twitter's largest outside investor used a brilliantly simple way to avoid detection.—When Twitter unveiled its IPO registration last month, a lot of folks were stunned to learn that the company's two largest institutional owners …

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John McDermott / Digiday:

Google tracking location on Android and iOS to find when searches lead to retail store visits — Google Takes Its Tracking Into The Real World — Tech companies large and small have long been trying to use smartphones to connect consumers' online activity to what they do in “real” life.

More: Digiday, Telegraph, Valleywag and The Drum. Tweets: @digiday. Thanks:@mcdermott

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Early Xbox One delivery reveals 500MB initial update, 17 second startup — then banned (update 3) — Now that there are Xbox Ones in the wild — thanks to Target's apparently leaky pre-order system — we're finding out more and more about the system. Moonlight Swami has been busy messing around …

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Tweets: @moonlightswami, @majornelson, @tomwarren and @supermtw

Brendan Sasso / TheHill:

White House considers civilian for NSA chief — White House is considering whether to name a civilian to lead the National Security Agency for the first time ever. — No decision has been made yet, but officials have drafted a list of possible civilian candidates for the post …

More: CNET, The Verge and Gizmodo

DealBook:

Price Cost Twitter Cash but Gave It Credibility — Twitter's stock gained 73 percent in its first day of trading, adding more than $10 billion to the company's market capitalization. — If the company had sold its 70 million shares at $45.10, the price of the first trade, instead of at $26 …

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