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October 14, 2012, 8:20 PM

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David Faber / CNBC:

Softbank to Buy 70 Percent Stake in Sprint: Source — Softbank and Sprint have reached a deal under which Softbank will pay $20 billion for a 70 percent stake in the wireless telecom operator, according to people close to the situation. — The deal is expected to be announced Monday morning …

More: Engadget, iMore, VentureBeat, Computerworld, MacRumors, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Business Insider, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Know Your Cell, iDownloadBlog.com, Quartz, Bloomberg and 24/7 Wall St.. Tweets: @mattzeitlin

Brad Sams / Neowin:

Windows 8 campaign kicks off with first official television commercial — Microsoft has just released its first official Windows 8 commercial that highlights the upcoming release of Windows 8. The advert, which you can see above, first ran at about 12:50 PM EST.

More: Digits, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, The Verge, CNET and GeekWire

Tweets: @galenward and @walterelly

Thanks:@bdsams

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong — Here's a pocket history of the web, according to many people. In the early days, the web was just pages of information linked to each other. Then along came web crawlers that helped you find what you wanted among all that information.

More: A VC, Felix Salmon and Chris Saad

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @buzzfeedben

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

AT&T Starts Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan Next Month, Will Block Websites — Last year the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States to launch the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). — The parties agreed on a system through which subscribers …

More: TechCrunch, Joho the Blog, Engadget and SlashGear

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

SNL's Sketch Pits iPhone 5 Factory Workers Problems Against The Tech Critics — Saturday Night Live's latest parody sketch gives life to that oft-quted phrase ‘first world problems’. (Here's an alternative link if the one above doesn't work). In a biting take-down of some of the legitimate …

More: Examiner, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, Mediaite, AllThingsD, The Loop, CNET, TUAW, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, The Verge, The Huffington Post, BetaNews, Mashable! and Neowin. Tweets: @darrenmurph

Fruzsina Eördögh / ReadWriteWeb:

[Infographic] YouTube's Top 1,000 Channels Reveal An Industry Taking Shape — YouTube is still the pesky younger sibling of television, which is the wicked uncle of Hollywood. But the social video site is slowly becoming a formidable medium in its own right, creating new business models …

Charles Duhigg / New York Times:

Campaigns Mine Personal Lives to Get Out Vote — Strategists affiliated with the Obama and Romney campaigns say they have access to information about the personal lives of voters at a scale never before imagined. And they are using that data to try to influence voting habits — in effect …

More: CNET, Chickaboomer, Hillicon Valley and Forbes

Tweets: @nytjim, @victorylab and @counternotions

Michael Humphrey / Forbes:

Red Bull Stratos On YouTube Live Topped 8 Million Concurrent Views — It's Sunday in October: That means football, presidential politics and Sunday brunch. But never mind any of that. — If you were watching the YouTube live coverage of the Red Bull Stratos, in which skydiver Felix Baumgartner dropped …

More: Associated Press, CNET, Hollywood Reporter, PC Magazine, Pocket-lint and AllThingsD

Joab Jackson / Computerworld:

Apache Lucene/Solr expands across many servers — The Apache Software Foundation's widely used open source Lucene/Solr search engine package has been upgraded to accommodate its users' seemingly insatiable need to collect and use ever-larger amounts of data.

More: TechCrunch and The H Open Source

Robert Wiltbank, PhD / TechCrunch:

Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5X Returns Overall — Editor's note: Robert Wiltbank, PhD, is a professor at Willamette University, where he and Wade Brooks run an angel investing fund managed by second-year MBA students. He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute …

Tweets: @cdixon

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Reddit leaders deflect censorship criticism and defend hands-off policies — In wake of the Gawker ban controversy, Reddit's powerful moderators test commitment to free speech — Reddit's prides itself on its decentralized meritocracy —"subreddits are a free market.

More: digitaltrends.com, BuzzFeed, VentureBeat and Gawker. Tweets: @jwherrman. See also Mediagazer

New York Times:

U.S. Suspects Iranians Were Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks — WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States …

More: Foreign Policy, Slate, digitaltrends.com, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat and Slashdot

Ben Geman / Hillicon Valley:

Reid vows fresh effort to pass stalled cybersecurity bill in November

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