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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.
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 …
Michael McWhertor / Polygon:
A sometimes true, sometimes false history of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4  —  Next week begins what many will consider the official roll out of next-generation consoles when the PlayStation 4 launches in North America.  The following week sees the debut of Microsoft's Xbox One.
More: Engadget
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 …
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 …
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.
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.”
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
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
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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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, potentially complicating hiring in Hollywood as firms try to protect trade secrets and other info

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
An interview with NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who defends NPR and accuses critics of “bad faith distortion” of her past comments about the First Amendment

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Apollo-backed US investment group Concord increases its bid for Hipgnosis Songs Fund, to $1.5B, just over the last offer from Blackstone

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