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September 30, 2013, 8:10 AM

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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:

Apple Passes Coca-Cola as Most Valuable Brand — Apple is the new most valuable brand in the world, according to a closely followed annual report. — The report, to be released on Monday, is from Interbrand, a corporate identity and brand consulting company owned by the Omnicom Group …

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

Twitter plans to make its IPO filing public this week — Twitter's IPO filing is ready, and the company intends to make it public this week, according to someone familiar with the plan. The goal is for Twitter to begin trading, likely on the New York Stock Exchange, before Thanksgiving.

More: Guardian, The Register, CNET, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Reuters, DealBook and Digits

Tweets: @joshuabrustein, @zseward, @zseward, @zseward, @qz, @qthrul and @sarahfrier

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Fred Wilson / A VC:

AngelList Syndicates will compete with other lead investors for deals, and many will fail — Leading vs Following — Hunter Walk has a good post up on the coming competition among angels with syndicates to get into deals. Hunter observes: … What Hunter is getting at is the difference between leading and following.

More: ZDNet, Hunter Walk, Silicon Valley Watcher, Feld Thoughts, Trends and VentureBeat

Tweets: @mathewi, @davemcclure, @gaberivera, @qthrul, @abrams, @davewiner, @jason, @percival, @om and @hunterwalk

Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

AngelList Syndicates can help traditional VCs, not just entrepreneurs and angels

More: LinkedIn Today. Tweets: @startupljackson, @davidlee, @besvinick, @kyletibbitts, @nihalmehta and @stilenius

Artem Russakovskii / Android Police:

Gmail 4.6: Ads Are Coming To Gmail For Android, Unsent Messages Warning, And More — Now that the insane week of Google app updates has passed (gotta love those Rollout Wednesdays, right?), I've had some time to dig into the APKs and have found a number of interesting things in some of them.

More: The Register, Inquirer, The Next Web, BGR India, Electronista, T3 News, Engadget, 9to5Google, Android Beat, The Droid Guy and AndroidHeadlines.com. Tweets: @carnage4life

Tom Warren / The Verge:

First Windows 8.1 ad features the return of the Start button — The removal of the Windows 8 Start button last year turned out to be a hot-button issue for users of Microsoft's latest operating system. Following a range of feedback from customers, Microsoft is now preparing to release Windows 8.1 on October 18th with a Start button.

More: BetaNews, Engadget, Softpedia News, Gearburn and TechnoBuffalo

Jacob Kleinman / TechnoBuffalo:

Microsoft's New Surface Commercial Highlights Features

MIT Technology Review:

How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics — To translate one language into another, find the linear transformation that maps one to the other. Simple, say a team of Google engineers — Computer science is changing the nature of the translation …

More: Motherboard and arxiv.org. Tweets: @soundboy

Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits:

Facebook Woos TV Networks With More Data — Facebook is laying down a new gauntlet in its battle with Twitter to dominate online conversation around television: more data for broadcasters. — This week, Facebook says it will begin sending weekly reports to America's four largest television networks …

More: The Next Web, VatorNews, The Next Web, Softpedia News and memeburn

Tweets: @drew, @isaach, @mathewi and @bryfitz

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage — Lodsys became one of the most-scorned patent holders in 2011, by making seemingly small cash demands (just 0.575 percent of your revenue, please!) against small app makers, who it said were infringing its patents that cover in-app purchasing and upgrades.

More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Guardian, The Verge, Gamasutra and AppleInsider

Tweets: @trajsingh and @dangillmor

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Why Ford CEO Alan Mulally Is A Good Choice To Run Microsoft (Despite His Lack Of High-Tech Chops) — Alan Mulally, Ford's CEO, has reportedly become the leading candidate to run Microsoft now that Steve Ballmer is retiring as CEO. — Mulally is a bit of a shock to some people because he has no connection to high-tech.

More: Monday Note, GeekWire, WebProNews and PC Magazine

Chris Dixon:

Some thoughts on startup crowdfunding — Like a lot of people, I'm excited about crowdfunding, and specifically the crowdfunding of startups now that's it's legal in the US. Based on my own experience investing in startups, here are some thoughts and issues that come to mind regarding startup crowdfunding.

Tweets: @bijan, @stevesi and @phil_hendrix. Thanks:@davetisch

Ryan Sarver:

Twitter's former Platform Director Ryan Sarver posts first of 10 essays on lessons learned — Things I Learned Working on the Twitter Platform — I was lucky enough to spend the last four years of my life working with an incredible team of people on the Twitter Platform.

More: A VC. Tweets: @davewiner, @mbaratz, @stevecheney, @jw and @chirag_mehta

Ryan Taljonick / GamesRadar:

PC gaming's future is no longer tied to Microsoft — First there was SteamOS, a Linux-based operating system whose open design aims to spur innovation. Then there were Steam Machines, a range of Valve-branded systems with SteamOS pre-installed that will provide a legitimate non-Windows alternative for PC gamers come 2014.

More: TechCrunch

Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Steam Controller in use: game developers sound off on the beta version's highs and lows, how it feels

More: Softpedia News, Motherboard, destructoid and VG247

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Disruptions: Visually Impaired Turn to Smartphones to See Their World — Luis Perez loves taking photographs. He shoots mostly on an iPhone, snapping gorgeous pictures of sunsets, vintage cars, old buildings and cute puppies. But when he arrives at a photo shoot, people are often startled when he pulls out a long white cane.

More: SlashGear. Tweets: @digiphile

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