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September 22, 2013, 4:20 AM

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Luke Reimer / Inside BlackBerry:
BlackBerry pulls BBM app from iOS App Store and delays Android release after Android app leaks  —  BBM for Android and iPhone Update  —  Prior to launching BBM for Android, an unreleased version of the BBM for Android app was posted online.  The interest and enthusiasm we have seen already …
DealBook:
BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis considering bid to take company private  —  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.
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 …
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 …
Dan Marantz / Bing Search Blog:
An overview of Bing's “Page Zero” results, which appear even before you finish typing  —  Page Zero: A Deep Dive  —  At Bing, our central mission is to help you spend less time searching and more time getting things done.  To that end, we are in a constant state …
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
California bill includes online “right-to-delete” provision for minors  —  Sharing, With a Safety Net  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Kids.  The reckless rants and pictures they post online can often get them in trouble, by compromising their chances of getting into a good college or even landing them in jail.
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Mozilla Launches Preview Of Firefox For Windows 8 Tablets  —  Mozilla's long-delayed Firefox for Windows 8 tablets has finally made its first public appearance outside of the relatively obscure and unstable Nightly development channel.  As Mozilla announced today, the chrome-less tablet version …
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 …

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