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Eric Pfeiffer / Yahoo! News:
Iranian President Rouhani takes to Twitter after phone chat with Obama  —  Describing his phone conversation with President Obama as “historic,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took to Twitter on Friday with a series of a fascinating messages that stunned and encouraged many foreign policy observers.
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David Nakamura / Post Politics:
White House: Yes, we noticed @HassanRouhani's Twitter feed  —  WH: Yes, we noticed @HassanRouhani's Twitter feed  —  As New York Magazine's Joe Coscarelli points out, President Obama was beaten to the news of his historic phone call Friday with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani — by Rouhani's own Twitter feed.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft now wants to buy your iPhone for at least $200  —  After offering at least $200 for an iPad, Microsoft is now looking to buy iPhones for the same price or more.  The company's latest promotion at its Microsoft Stores, which was previously rumored, will run until November 3rd …
Samantha Murphy Kelly / Mashable:
Apple Feature to Turn MLB Stadiums Into Interactive Playgrounds  —  Major League Baseball is launching a major initiative to make attending games at stadiums a completely interactive experience for fans.  —  Taking advantage of Apple's iBeacon indoor mapping, a new feature in iOS 7 …
Russell Holly / Geek.com:
Google Glass XE10 update to finally open the door to Glassware apps  —  Google Glass is about to get one of its biggest updates yet.  That's right, Glass is finally getting the long-awaited ability for users to install third party apps.  —  Google's wearable computer has improved dramatically since …
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Apple to pay $40 to iPad 3G owners shut out of all-you-can-eat data plans  —  Apple and AT&T are set to resolve a long-running class action suit over the companies' decision in June, 2010 to end unlimited data plans for the iPad 3G tablet.  —  In a ruling issued this week in San Jose …
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Received 37,196 Gov Requests For Data Impacting 66,539 Accounts In First Half Of 2013  —  Today Microsoft reported the number of data requests it received from various law enforcement agencies around the world in the first half of (calendar) 2013: 37,196.  Those requests dealt with, at most, 66,539 accounts.
David Meyer / GigaOM:
Samsung: We don't region-lock our phones (apart from when you first activate them)  —  Samsung shed further light on its region-locking policies on Friday, explaining that the locks only affect users the first time they activate the handset.  The manufacturer also said the locks apply …
Walter Frick / Harvard Business Review:
If Crowdfunding is the New Day Trading, Look Out  —  Paul Volcker famously said the only financial innovation to improve society in recent memory was the ATM.  Not everyone agrees.  In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued …
Tweets: @harvardbiz.  Thanks:@wfrick
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Apple's German patent suit shut down by a 2007 video of Steve Jobs  —  A German court has declared an early Apple photo-management patent invalid because of evidence in a video in which Steve Jobs presented the original iPhone back in January 2007.  —  Apple had won injunctions against both Samsung …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Liftopia, An E-Commerce Platform For Ski Resorts, Raises Additional $5 Million  —  Last year, online ski marketplace Liftopia, which previously focused on offering skiers discounted lift tickets, launched an e-commerce platform for the ski resorts themselves called “Cloud Store by Liftopia.”
Bloomberg:
HTC to Sell Back Stake in Beats Electronics for $265 Million  —  HTC Corp. (2498), the Taiwanese smartphone vendor whose stock has plunged 90 percent since 2011, is selling its remaining stake in headphone maker Beats Electronics LLC for $265 million.  —  HTC will close the sale …
Paul Thurrott / WindowsITPro:
Delta to Distribute Surface 2 to Pilots  —  Original plan was to use the Nokia Windows RT tablet  —  Delta will distribute Microsoft Surface 2 tablets to its pilots and not Nokia's “Sirius” tablet as originally planned.  The move comes in the wake of a deal to distribute Nokia Lumia 820 smart phones …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Dianne Feinstein Accidentally Confirms That NSA Tapped The Internet Backbone  —  It's widely known that the NSA has taps connected to the various telco networks, thanks in large part to AT&T employee Mark Klein who blew the whistle on AT&T's secret NSA room in San Francisco.
Tweets: @ggreenwald
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple hires director of design at Nike's research and development unit  —  Apple hires one of Nike's top Fuel Band designers to work on wearable devices  —  Apple has lured away top Nike design director Ben Shaffer, according to a source at Nike with knowledge of the details behind Shaffer's departure.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Microsoft will increase Windows 8′s and Windows 8.1′s app roaming limit from 5 to 81 devices on October 9  —  Microsoft today announced it is increasing the app roaming limit on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 from five to 81 on October 9.  This means you'll be able to install the same app …
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
Feds Targeted Snowden's Email Provider the Day After NSA Whistleblower Went Public  —  When on June 9 Edward Snowden stood up in Hong Kong and revealed himself to the world as an NSA whistleblower, the Justice Department wasted little time in targeting his email provider.
More: SlashGear.  Tweets: @kpoulsen
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Says Iran Hacked Navy Computers  —  WASHINGTON—U.S. officials said Iran hacked unclassified Navy computers in recent weeks in an escalation of Iranian cyberintrusions that target the U.S. military.  —  The allegations by U.S. officials, coming as the Obama administration ramps up talks …

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Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
The FCC approves Paramount's request for foreign ownership above 25% in its proposed WBD acquisition; foreign owners would hold 49.5% of its Class B shares

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