Steve Ballmer's final shareholder letter: “We are still in the early days of our transformation”  —  Shareholder Letter  —  TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS, CUSTOMERS, PARTNERS AND EMPLOYEES: This is a unique letter for me — the last shareholder letter I will write as the CEO of the company I love.

Beats says its new Beats Music streaming service will launch ‘within the next few months’ in the US  —  Beats will launch its long-awaited music streaming service, Beats Music, “within the next few months” in the United States.  Luke Wood, president and COO of the company …

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 …

iTunes Radio to reach UK and Canada before Pandora, also expanding to Australia and NZ in early 2014  —  Apple Said to Expand ITunes Radio to U.K. Before Pandora  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to expand iTunes Radio to English-speaking countries outside the U.S. by early 2014 …

Samsung Seeks U.S. Veto of Import Ban Just Like Apple Got  —  Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) wants the same favor from President Barack Obama that he gave U.S.-based Apple Inc. (AAPL) — the right to keep importing smartphones and tablets found to infringe the other's patents.

Fox News debuts bizarre, giant tablets in its outrageous new newsroom  —  If you can't make the news better, make it bigger  —  Fox News has just unveiled a breathtakingly ridiculous newsroom, complete with novelty-sized Windows-based touchscreens, a Twitter wall, and a wannabe Minority Report style display …

New York Attorney General subpoenas Airbnb for data on thousands of local hosts  —  Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hits AirBnB with subpoena for user data  —  State is concerned about hotel occupancy taxes and possible evictions by greedy building owners.

Microsoft updates YouTube app for Windows Phone, apparently surrenders to Google as web player returns  —  Windows Phone users have returned to square one with the ‘updated’ YouTube app today  —  A few months ago, Microsoft and Google had a brouhaha over YouTube and Windows Phone.

FiLIP is an electronic leash for your kids' wrists and it's coming to AT&T  —  Electronic leashes for the 21st century kid?  You knew this sort of thing was inevitable.  FiLIP, a smartwatch and ‘locator’ for kids that takes helicopter parenting to an excessive level, is heading to AT&T's lineup as an exclusive.

Square Expands To Larger San Francisco Headquarters, New Offices In NYC And Waterloo, Canada  —  Mobile payments company Square is announcing today the opening of a larger, expanded San Francisco-based headquarters.  In addition, the company announced plans for new offices in both New York …

SEC Clears Apple's Tax Disclosures  —  Four months after opening its review of Apple's finances, the Securities and Exchange Commission has closed it, having found nothing untoward about the company's handling of its overseas cash and related tax policies.  —  In a September letter to Apple …

Twitter Tweaks Its Welcome Screen to Better Explain Itself  —  Twitter's IPO is just around the corner — and it's already showing signs of change.  —  The company quietly updated the Twitter.com homepage over the weekend, changing the visual design and welcome text that people see when first encountering the service.

Adblock Plus whitelists only 10% of advertisers  —  Nov. 12 - 13, 2013  —  Adblock Plus, the adblocking service that blocks pop-ups, pop-unders, blinking, and other annoying ads, and recently suggested to Twitter that it apply for whitelisting, revealed today that it only accepts 10 percent of advertisers to its whitelisting program.

NSA surveillance review panel temporarily shut down after staff is furloughed  —  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 …

Google Glass XE10 adds Transit directions but no native apps  —  Google has updated its Glass wearable with public transit directions, with firmware XE10 turning the headset into a city navigator, though the much-anticipated local app support is still missing.

No coupon?  No problem: Microsoft linking daily deals directly to credit card  —  Microsoft Bing is launching a test program in Seattle this week that aims to overcome one of the challenges of daily deals programs — eliminating the requirement to show a coupon or voucher …