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October 7, 2013, 9:10 AM

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Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

LG Display unveils curved handset display for November launch — (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc's (066570.KS) display unit said on Monday it will start mass production of curved smartphone displays as the South Korean phone maker plans to launch a smartphone with the new screens next month …

More: LG Display Newsroom, GigaOM, The Verge, Unwired View, pocketnow.com, SlashGear, Phones Review, MobileSyrup.com and Softpedia News

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

FBI can't find Ulbricht's personal 600k Bitcoins, plans to sell 26k seized from Silk Road users — The FBI's Plan For The Millions Worth Of Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road — When the FBI arrested Silk Road boss Ross William Ulbricht and took his site down, they seized the site's assets …

More: Guardian, Bitcoin Block Explorer, Daily Dot, Gizmodo and Digital Trends. Tweets: @forbes

Violet Blue / ZDNet:

After Silk Road seizure, FBI Bitcoin wallet identified and pranked

More: Guardian, Gizmodo, The Verge and RT

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Urban Compass, A 5-Month-Old Startup Worth $150 Million, Will Help New Yorkers Buy — As Well As Rent — Homes — Ori Allon's young startup, Urban Compass, has found early traction helping New Yorkers rent apartments. Soon, Urban Compass will help them buy apartments too.

More: Street Fight

Danny Hakim / New York Times:

European Union considering tougher cloud privacy rules after surveillance disclosures — Europe Aims to Regulate the Cloud — LONDON — The words “cloud computing” never appeared in a 119-page digital privacy regulation introduced in Europe last year. — They do now.

More: Softpedia News. Tweets: @jfderico and @glynmoody

Reed Albergotti / Digits:

Facebook to expand TV data report initiative to networks in eight countries — Facebook Adds TV Partners Overseas — The rivalry between Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. over social conversations around television shows is moving overseas. — Facebook Monday will disclose plans …

More: GigaOM, VatorNews, The Next Web, memeburn and Facebook. Tweets: @vanitakohlik. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

Nielsen Twitter TV Rating arrives Monday, shows gap between Twitter and mass-market popularity — Tweets Provide New Way to Gauge TV Audiences — Data Show Differences Between Social-Media Service's Users, Mass-Market Viewers — CBS Corp.'s “The Big Bang Theory” and “NCIS” …

More: New York Times, The Verge, Business Insider, Softpedia News, SocialTimes, AdAge, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch and Hollywood Reporter

Tweets: @demetria_g, @stevesi, @wsj and @ryanlawler

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Wall Street Journal:

Software, Design Defects Cripple Health-Care Website — Government Acknowledges It Needs to Fix Design and Software Problems — Six days into the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the new health-care law, the federal government acknowledged for the first time Sunday it needed …

More: MoneyBeat. Tweets: @jonahnro, @charliespiering and @igorvolsky

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Purported Service Manual Gives A Look At The Next Nexus Phone, Reveals 32GB Storage, 8MP OIS Camera, Photos, And More — Courtesy of an anonymous tipster, we've got a nice weekend treat for those caught up in Nexus season rumor hysteria. A document, purported to be an internal Service Manual …

Politico:

NSA surveillance panel shut down — Surveillance panel shut down — A panel President Barack Obama set up in August to assess the government's use of surveillance technologies hit some turbulence related to the government shutdown last week and found itself effectively frozen on Friday …

More: TechCrunch

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

As Twitter seeks a female board member, Costolo's sharp response to criticism on the issue attracts more criticism — Carrot Flop: Twitter CEO Costolo Finds Lack of Woman on Board Is No Joking Matter — Two weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the lack of women on the board of Twitter …

More: BuzzFeed, New York Times, Digits, Business Insider, TechCrunch, NYT Bits, StrictlyVC, Adventures in Capitalism, The Verge, The Next Web and Mashable

Tweets: @dickc, @waltmossberg, @wadhwa, @dickc, @jhong, @jenbee, @howardlindzon, @mathewi, @karaswisher, @ericries and @anildash

David Carr / New York Times:

Using Twitter, Carl Icahn can move markets — Using Twitter to Move the Markets — Last week, while everyone was wondering what Twitter is worth after the unveiling of its I.P.O., I spent some time on a little different math. How much could a single post on Twitter be worth? — How about $1 billion?

Tweets: @johnwaggoner, @carr2n and @philiped. See also Mediagazer

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter's lucrative data mining business earned $47.5m in 2012 — Twitter's Data Business Proves Lucrative — Twitter Disclosed It Earned $47.5 Million From Selling Off Information It Gathers — In its IPO filing Thursday, Twitter Inc. disclosed how much the microblogging platform earned …

Tweets: @spencerante, @yoreekoh, @sameerpatel and @allisonworrall

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