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Apple:

Apple Sells Three Million iPads in Three Days — Wi-Fi Only Models of New iPad mini & Fourth Generation iPad Double Previous First Weekend Sales — Apple® today announced it has sold three million iPads in just three days since the launch of its new iPad® mini and fourth generation iPad …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Apple Says It's “Practically Sold Out” of iPad Minis, but Doesn't Provide Number (Updated) — So how many iPad minis did Apple sell over the weekend? We still don't know. — Apple says it sold three million iPads since Friday, when its new iPad mini and iPad 4 went on sale.

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple to bring movie ticket purchasing to Siri with upcoming iOS 6.1 update — Apple's upcoming release of iOS 6.1 will include a new feature for Siri: the ability to get movie tickets. The feature, according to developers who are beta testing the new iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system, works via Fandango.

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Zak Islam / Tom's Hardware Guide:

For The First Time Ever, iPhone Owner Loyalty Declines — Loyalty of iPhone owners in both the United States and Europe experiences first ever decline. — For the first time since the iPhone's inception, the percentage of the smartphone's owners who say they will definitely or probably buy another Apple handset has declined.

More: Fortune, Mashable!, bizjournals and DVICE

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Two More Teardowns Look Inside Microsoft Surface and Amazon Kindle Fire HD — You have to credit the folks over at research firm IHS, because, apparently, they've pulling a little bit of overtime. Along with the teardown of Apple's iPad mini, the results of which they sent to AllThingsD yesterday …

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Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Gigabytes — From a Virtual Pants post refuting my experiences with the Surface:

More: Ignore the Code, Virtual Pants and parislemon. Tweets: @twotribes

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Microsoft posts Build 2012 session videos for eager Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 coders — Not every developer had the luxury of putting a flight to Redmond on the corporate tab so that they could attend Microsoft's Build 2012 conference in person. Much to their delight, they won't have to.

More: CNET, Inquirer, LiveSide.net, Neowin, VentureBeat, Gizmodo.com Updates, Softpedia News and WMPoweruser

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

The press, Google, its algorithm, their scale — In their fight against Google, traditional media firmly believe the search engine needs them to refine (and monetize) its algorithm. Let's explore the facts. — The European press got itself in a bitter battle against Google.

More: Forbes and Guardian. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Apple drops to 50.4% tablet market share in Q3, as Samsung grabs 18.4% and Amazon takes 9.0% — Apple's iPad managed to grab 50.4 percent market share in the third quarter of 2012, which saw a total of 27.8 million total units shipped worldwide. Rounding out the top three tablet manufacturers …

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Ben Kersey / The Verge:

Google and Microsoft rumored to be eyeing up UK white space for ubiquitous mobile broadband — Both Google and Microsoft have expressed an “extreme interest” in currently unused white space spectrum in the UK, according to The Telegraph. A senior government source speaking to the publication …

More: VentureBeat, DSLreports, Forbes, Light Reading, Gizmodo UK, Neowin and Microsoft News

Ian Steadman / Wired.co.uk:

The Russian underground economy has democratised cybercrime — If you want to buy a botnet, it'll cost you somewhere in the region of $700 (£433). If you just want to hire someone else's for an hour, though, it can cost as little as $2 (£1.20) — that's long enough to take down …

More: SiliconANGLE and Gizmodo UK

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Interactive map traces all potential outcomes of Tuesday's presidential election — The New York Times has put together an interactive map that illustrates all of the possible outcomes of the upcoming US presidential election set to happen this Tuesday. The map lets viewers trace all 512 paths …

More: San Francisco Chronicle and FlowingData

Associated Press:

Apple paid only 1.9 percent income tax on $36.8 billion in earnings outside US in fiscal 2012 — Apple Inc. paid an income tax rate of only 1.9 percent on its earnings outside the U.S. in its latest fiscal year, a regulatory filing by the company shows. — The world's most valuable company …

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