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September 21, 2013, 3:15 PM

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DealBook:

BlackBerry Co-Founder Mike Lazaridis Is Said to Consider Bid for Company — BlackBerry Co-Founder Is Said to Consider Bid for Company — Mike Lazaridis, the co-founder of BlackBerry who stepped down as co-chief executive in 2012, has reached out to private equity firms about a possible bid for the troubled company.

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, MobileSyrup.com, Digits and Ars Technica. Tweets: @howardlindzon

BlackBerry Press Room:

Blackberry announces 4,500 layoffs, quarterly $950M loss, new enterprise focus — BlackBerry announces preliminary second quarter fiscal 2014 results and provides business update — Company expects GAAP net operating loss of approximately $950 million to $995 million …

More: BGR, CNBC, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, Wired, New York Times, Global Nerdy, BBC, Reuters, IntoMobile, TechSpot, VatorNews and PhoneNews.com

Nancy Gohring / CITEworld:

BlackBerry, in desperation, is giving up on consumers again

More: Washington Post, Guardian and ZDNet. Tweets: @omarelakkad

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Another iOS 7 Bug Lets Anyone Make Calls From Locked iPhones—And This One Has No Quick Fix — Apple has yet to fix one nasty bug in the lockscreen of iOS 7, and the next one has already appeared. — On Friday, Karam Daoud, a 27-year old Palestinian living in the West Bank city of Ramallah …

More: Business Insider, Engadget, T3 News, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, BetaNews, App Advice, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, Security Watch and Geek.com. Thanks:@lainnafader

Linda Sandler / Bloomberg:

Lawsuit alleges LinkedIn breaks in to external email accounts to collect email addresses — LinkedIn Customers Allege Company Hacked E-Mail Addresses — LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), owner of the world's most popular professional-networking website, was sued by customers alleging it appropriated …

More: AllThingsD, GigaOM, Mashable, PC Pro, I4U News, Softpedia News, The Huffington Post, Ubergizmo and Los Angeles Times

Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:

NSA Sends Letter to Its ‘Extended’ Family to Reassure Them That They Will ‘Weather’ This ‘Storm’ — The National Security Agency sent out a letter to all of its employees and affiliates, including contractors, that could be printed and shared with family, friends and colleagues.

More: Guardian, Techdirt, Salon, emptywheel and Softpedia News. Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu

James Trew / Engadget:

PSA: BBM for iOS rollout underway, Android version acting a little shy — It's been something of a mixed week for BlackBerry, but it's good news for those with an affinity for its BBM service (but an allegiance to other phones.) If you're over on the Apple side of the fence …

More: The Verge, iPhone Hacks, Android Central, T3 News, TechnoBuffalo, GadgetGuide4U, GadgetGuide4U, Redmond Pie, ValueWalk, AndroidHeadlines.com and Softpedia News

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Benchmark test shows iPhone 5's touchscreen responds more than 2X faster than Android devices — Apple's iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices — Apple's iPhone 5 is 2.5 times faster at responding to touches than Google Android devices, according to a benchmark test by game and app streaming firm Agawi.

More: TouchMarks and The Next Web

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

Siri is just the start; Multipath TCP will improve connection reliability for more apps over time — Apple's iOS 7 includes a surprise: a ticket to the next generation of the internet — For five years, researchers have toiled over an obscure bit of fundamental internet infrastructure …

More: Olivier Bonaventure and Olivier Bonaventure

Wall Street Journal:

Google's plan to replace browser cookies causes concern for the digital advertising industry — Advertisers Worry About Changes to ‘Cookies’ — As Google Considers New System, Madison Ave. Wrings Its Hands — The possibility that Google Inc. could stop using “cookies” …

Tweets: @amolsharmawsj

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Spain passes new anti-piracy laws, raises maximum penalty to six years — Nearly six months ago, we reported that Spain was under heavy pressure from the United States to strengthen its anti-piracy laws. (That, of course, comes after Spain enacted an anti-piracy law in 2011.)

More: Reuters, TorrentFreak, The Verge, TechCrunch and Softpedia News. Tweets: @mediaredef

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook Engineering and Products VP Greg Badros to Leave Company — Greg Badros, Facebook's vice president of engineering and products, plans to soon leave the company, AllThingsD has learned. — Facebook confirmed Badros's departure in a brief statement: “Greg was a valuable member of Facebook's team …

More: Softpedia News and Inside Facebook

Chris Burns / SlashGear:

Skype cuts future support for Windows Phone 7 — Microsoft is letting the world of Windows Phone 7 (not to be confused with Windows Phone 8) know today that it's time to move on. With Windows Phone 8 being released to smartphones for just under a year, Microsoft has decided …

More: Skype Blogs, The Next Web, My Nokia Blog, BetaNews, WebProNews and Engadget

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