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September 30, 2013, 2:05 PM

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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 …

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: Business Insider, VentureBeat, AllFacebook, SiliconBeat, The Verge, Engadget, Marketing Land, dailywireless.org, The Next Web, GigaOM, memeburn, VatorNews, Softpedia News and Forbes

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

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Launches Web Designer, A Visual Tool For Building Interactive HTML5 Sites And Ads — Google today announced the launch of Web Designer, a new tool for building interactive HTML5 sites and ads. The company first hinted at this launch in June, but had been quiet about it ever since.

More: DoubleClick Advertiser Blog, 9to5Google and The Next Web. Tweets: @rsarver

James Ball / Guardian:

NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show — • Vast amounts of data kept in repository codenamed Marina — • Data retained regardless of whether person is NSA target — • Material used to build ‘pattern-of-life’ profiles of individuals

More: Techdirt, Help Net Security, The Switch, dailywireless.org, Motherboard, WebProNews, Inquirer, Electronic Frontier Foundation, CNN and TechEye

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: Softpedia News, Motherboard and arxiv.org. Tweets: @soundboy

Tracey Kaplan / Mercury News:

John McAfee teases D-Central, a sub-$100 gadget that creates surveillance-proof local networks — John McAfee reveals details on gadget to thwart NSA — SAN JOSE — John McAfee lived up to his reputation Saturday as tech's most popular wild child, electrifying an audience with new details …

More: CNET, TechCrunch, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Escapist, WebProNews, Examiner and Softpedia News. Tweets: @nytimesbits

Lizette Chapman / Venture Capital Dispatch:

Justin.tv Spinoff Twitch Raises $20M for Live Video Gaming — Live video gaming platform Twitch has been on a growth tear this past year and has raised $20 million from investors to rip it up some more. … Unlike competitors Ustream, LiveStream, YouTube and others enabling individuals …

More: AllThingsD, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Verge, GigaOM and SlashGear

Wall Street Journal:

Aircraft Can Handle Electronic-Device Use, Panel to Tell FAA — Passengers Can Use Their Devices but Not the Internet — A federal advisory committee is set to tell the Federal Aviation Administration that many aircraft flying today are largely ready to handle passengers using …

More: TechEye and VentureBeat. Tweets: @reformedbroker

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Revolution Ventures Closes $200 Million Fund — Revolution Ventures, the venture capital arm of Revolution LLC, run by former AOL CEO Steve Case, has closed a new $200 million venture fund. — Led by Case and partners Tige Savage and David Golden, the group plans to take a targeted approach …

More: VentureBeat, GigaOM, StrictlyVC and Washington Post

Tweets: @jeancase, @bowerycapital and @infoarbitrage

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

Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

AOL to Start Advertising on TV Again, With Commercials for New Subscription Service Gathr — More than nine months after AOL shelved plans for a hip-hop-inspired TV commercial that would have been the first TV ad of CEO Tim Armstrong's tenure, the company has decided to make a return to TV advertising.

More: Valleywag, TechCrunch and Mashable

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Foursquare, Twilio, Automattic Among Latest To Join Demand For More Disclosure On US Data Requests — Today or tomorrow, the U.S. Justice Department is expected to file a brief with the FISA Court opposing motions from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn requesting the right …

More: AllThingsD and Hillicon Valley

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