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September 13, 2013, 10:30 PM
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Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits:
Microsoft execs were aware of an Android Lumia prototype before Nokia deal  —  Behind Microsoft Deal, the Specter of a Nokia Android Phone  —  SEATTLE — Before Microsoft reached a deal to buy Nokia's phone business, there was a possibility that Nokia could have switched its smartphones …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nuclear options: Microsoft was testing Surface Phone while Nokia experimented with Android  —  Things might have turned out very differently  —  Microsoft and Nokia need each other more than you'd expect.  While Nokia was testing Android in a variety of different ways, Microsoft was busy experimenting with a Surface Phone.
More: SlashGear.  Tweets: @joshuatopolsky and @zpower
AllThingsD:
Twitter's internal 2013 growth target was 400m users, sources say it now has 240m  —  Twitter User Growth Slower Than Internal Goals  —  Is Twitter growing fast enough?  —  This seems like an odd question to ask, since the company has just told the world it's getting ready to go public.
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Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
iPhone 5C pre-orders available from Apple, carriers, and retailers
Alex Colon / GigaOM:
Best Buy will trade you a free iPhone 5 for your old smartphone  —  Don't know what to do with your old Palm Pre?  If you were thinking about getting an iPhone you can bring it to Best Buy this weekend, where it'll take your old smartphone and give you an iPhone 5 in exchange.
Jack Clark / The Register:
Google swaps out MySQL, moves to MariaDB  —  'They're moving it all,' says MariaDB Foundation headman  —  Google is migrating its MySQL systems over to MariaDB, allowing the search company to get away from the Oracle-backed open source database.  —  The news came out at the Extra Large Database …
More: ZDNet and Computing.  Thanks:@mappingbabel

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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Paramount agrees to a request from 12 states, led by CA, to link their federal antitrust case in the WBD merger to an existing Paramount+ subscriber lawsuit

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Brendan Carr proposes repealing the national ownership cap, which restricts amassing TV stations that cover more than 39% of households, and sets an Aug. 6 vote

Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Ozone: publisher ad supply in Q2 fell by 32% to 37% YoY in the US and 39% to 41% YoY in the UK, driven by AI-era zero-click search and reduced referral traffic

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Brian Fung / The Switch:
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