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September 13, 2013, 3:00 PM

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter Doles Out Stock Grants to Keep Top Talent  —  Twitter's eventual day in the IPO sun is closer than ever.  And the company is doing all it can to keep the forecast as pleasant as possible — including keeping its top employees happy.  —  Twitter has handed out stock grants to a number …
More: VatorNewsTweets: @allthingsd
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple's iPhone 5s, the A7 Chip, and That 64-Bit Question  —  When Apple unveiled the iPhone 5s on Tuesday, the company touted as one of its tentpole features the 64-bit desktop-class processing power of its new custom-made A7 chip.  “The A7 is up to twice as fast as the previous-generation system …
More: Patently AppleTweets: @johnpaczkowski
Brian Klug / AnandTech:
Some Thoughts about the iPhone 5S Camera Improvements  —  One of the big improvements that comes with the iPhone 5S is a new camera system, with a faster aperture for more light throughput, bigger 8 MP sensor with correspondingly bigger pixels, dual LED color temperature matching flash, and improved ISP.
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Eliot Van Buskirk / Evolver.fm:
Twitter Releases Spotify App  —  Remember when Twitter bought We Are Hunted, whose creators then built Twitter's #music app, which was initially super popular in part due to its cool design and the fact that everybody uses Twitter, but then it ran into a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem?
Sarah McBride / Reuters:
Insight: In Silicon Valley start-up world, pedigree counts  —  (Reuters) - When asked to name the most notable rags-to-riches entrepreneur that his firm has funded, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz doesn't hesitate: Christian Gheorghe, a Romanian immigrant who came to the United States without speaking English …
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Kim Dotcom sues New Zealand for $7 million over illegal spying, raid  —  New details emerge about the Mega-raid: including video cameras, secret pencams.  —  It was bound to happen sooner or later: Kim Dotcom has finally sued the New Zealand government over its admittedly illegal spying …
Kevin M. Gallagher / Motherboard:
What Do the Latest NSA Leaks Mean for Bitcoin?  —  Could the intelligence community have a secret exploit for Bitcoin?  It's rather obvious that Bitcoin presents a very strong financial incentive to break its cryptography, since such a vulnerability could allow an attacker to claim large amounts of virtual currency for themselves.
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