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October 2, 2013, 2:10 PM

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Reuters:
Supply constraints to delay or limit rollout of a Retina iPad Mini this year, say sources  —  Apple iPad Mini with sharper display faces delay  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc will be unable to widely roll out a new version of the iPad Mini with a high-resolution “retina” display this month …
Digits:
Apple to fix iMessage delivery glitch on iOS 7 in upcoming software update  —  iMessages to Nowhere?  —  Apple Inc. said it's aware of a glitch in iOS7 that is disrupting some iMessage texts and is working on a fix to quell mounting complaints after the company released the biggest overhaul of its iPhone operating system in years.
Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:
FBI seizes underground drug market Silk Road, owner indicted in New York  —  The site was doing more than $1.2 billion in business, according to a criminal complaint  —  It appears the Federal Bureau of Investigation has finally cracked down on Silk Road, the underground marketplace where users …
Shanna Prevé / The Official Google Blog:
Hulu Plus now works with Chromecast  —  Hulu has added Chromecast support to their Hulu Plus app—just in time for the fall television season.  Now you can easily enjoy your favorite shows, such as “Modern Family,” “New Girl” and “Parks and Recreation,” on your big-screen TV by casting from Hulu Plus on your mobile phone or tablet.
AnandTech:
They're (Almost) All Dirty: The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks  —  Thanks to AndreiF7's excellent work on discovering it, we kicked off our investigations into Samsung's CPU/GPU optimizations around the international Galaxy S 4 in July and came away with a couple of conclusions:
More: Gizmodo and 9to5MacTweets: @nosdrew and @panzer
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
U.S. Opposes Tech Companies' Requests to Disclose Surveillance  —  The U.S. Department of Justice is formally opposing requests by technology companies to disclose more information about the frequency with which they are contacted by the U.S. government to give up user data under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
More: Reuters, GigaOM and PC WorldTweets: @csoghoian
AppleInsider:
Apple hires longtime cable exec as engineering director for ‘something big’  —  Cable television industry veteran Jean-François Mulé will take an engineering position at Apple for an undisclosed project, rekindling speculation that the Cupertino company is further developing a set-top cable box.
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
500 Startups Confirms $44 Million Second Fund, Plans To Invest In 200 Startups Over The Next Year  —  It's hard to believe, but it's been just three years since 500 Startups started making investments in early-stage companies.  But in that time, the firm has put money in at least 500 companies …
David Meyer / GigaOM:
iOS push email is back in Germany, a year and a half after Motorola shut it down  —  German iOS users finally have their push email back, Apple confirmed in a support note on Tuesday.  This follows a lengthy pause in such functionality, brought about by a Motorola patent victory over Apple in a German court.
Wall Street Journal:
HTC works with Qualcomm on redesigning HTC One chip to avert US ban  —  HTC, Qualcomm Work on Redesigning Smartphone Chip  —  HTC Seeks to Avert U.S. Ban After Nokia's Preliminary Win in Patent Case  —  TAIPEI—Taiwan's HTC Corp. is working with Qualcomm Inc. on ways to alter a component …
Alex Williams / TechCrunch:
Telogis Raises $93M From Kleiner Perkins In Pre-IPO Round To Extend Location Intelligence SaaS Platform For New Mobile Workforce  —  Telogis has raised $93 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to deepen its location-based services platform for operations that have large mobile workforces.
More: Bloomberg and Digits

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