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October 4, 2013, 9:35 AM

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
Twitter's IPO filing is official — S-1 now publicly available  —  FORM S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT — Twitter, Inc.  —  Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after this registration statement becomes effective.
Bloomberg:
Microsoft in talks with HTC to add Windows to Android phones at little or no cost  —  Microsoft Said to Ask HTC to Put Windows on More Phones  —  Microsoft Corp. is talking to HTC about adding its Windows operating system to HTC's Android-based smartphones at little or no cost …
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Instagram Blog:
Instagram as a Growing Business  —  Over the past three years we've watched with amazement as Instagram has grown to a global community of more than 150 million people capturing and sharing the world's moments.  Instagram is a place where people come to connect and be inspired …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
OS X Mavericks goes Golden Master, now out for developers  —  In line with our report from earlier today, Apple has released OS X Mavericks Golden Master (GM) to developers.  It became available to AppleSeed users and Apple employees earlier today.  This GM stage means that Apple …
Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:
Samsung estimates a record $9.4B quarterly profit, helped by strong sales of cheaper handsets  —  Samsung Profit Beats Estimates on Cheaper Smartphones  —  Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the world's biggest maker of smartphones, posted record profit that beat estimates as sales …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Adobe's network compromised: 2.9 million customer names, encrypted credit and debit card numbers, and source code  —  Software firm Adobe today revealed its network was compromised.  Information that was leaked included 2.9 million customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers …
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
iPhone 5S fingerprint spoof could lead to ID theft, German researchers says  —  A German security company says spoofing the iPhone 5S's fingerprint reader can be used to beat the phone's “remote wipe” facility to carry out identity theft.  —  SRL demonstrates the hack on its website.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards, says it's OK for your browser to say “I can't let you do that, Dave”  —  Here's the bad news: the World Wide Web Consortium is going ahead with its plan to add DRM to HTML5, setting the stage for browsers that are designed to disobey …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft's Ballmer gets docked for Windows 8, Surface RT  —  Summary: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recieved 76 percent of the total incentive award for which he was eligible in fiscal 2013.  Issues plaguing the Windows division were to blame.  —  Microsoft's annual proxy statement indicated …

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