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October 9, 2013, 9:55 PM

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Nick Bilton / New York Times:

“Hatching Twitter” excerpts depict a detached Jack Dorsey who later attempted to recast Twitter's history — All Is Fair in Love and Twitter — Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco's financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides …

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Bilton Twitter Book — Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Almost Went to Facebook (And More!)

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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

T-Mobile to Make It Cheaper to Make Calls While Abroad — Cellphone plans are a little like languages: they don't always translate well in foreign countries. — Often, travelers have to pay an extra $100 to their provider to get any cell service abroad. Or they must sign up for a short-term plan …

More: AllThingsD, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, TechCrunch, MacRumors and Electronista

Daniel P. Howley / LAPTOP Magazine:

T-Mobile International Data vs. the Competition: Rates Compared — Data Cost — Voice Calling Cost — AT&T — $30 per 120MB / $120 per 800MB (Global Add-on Package) — $30 / month for $2.00 per minute (Rest of World Plan) — Sprint — $40 per 40MB / $80 per 85MB (Multi-country Data Roaming)

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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Windows Phone 8.1: 7-10 inch screens, no hardware back button, 77% API unity with Windows RT — Windows Phone 8.1 Rumors Emerge — Yes, we'll get a third Windows Phone 8 update first. Still.... While Windows Phone 8 GDR3 is right around the corner—and, yes, I'll be writing …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Gets Its Strongest TV Tie-Up So Far, With an Ambitious Comcast Deal — Twitter has been trying to buddy up with the TV industry for the past few years. Now it has its biggest payoff yet: A far-reaching deal with Comcast that aims to turn the social network into a TV-watching service.

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Twitter and Comcast's new ‘See it’ button lets you watch and record TV shows directly from a tweet

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Facebook prepares major updates to iPhone apps as top engineer returns to Apple — Screenshots of upcoming Facebook Graph Search for iPhone update — Facebook is preparing a pair of major updates for its most popular iPhone applications, according to a source familiar with the apps.

More: Inside Facebook, iPhone Hacks, everythingiCafe, Ubergizmo, GeekWire, AllFacebook, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, MacRumors, App Advice, WebProNews and MacNN. Tweets: @jyarow

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Gartner: PC shipments slip 8.6% to 80.3m units in Q3 2013, the lowest back-to-school quarter since 2008 — The PC market continues to fall spectacularly, seeing the sixth consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments as well as the lowest back-to-school quarter since 2008.

More: IDC, Gartner, The Verge, AppleInsider, Engadget, TechCrunch, PC World, MacRumors, Internet Evolution, iPhone Hacks, Macgasm, BGR, AllThingsD, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet and Electronista

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Archos GamePad 2 tablet gets official, ships to the US in Q4 for $200 — That was fast — just days after a retailer's leak, Archos has announced the GamePad 2. As hinted earlier, the second-generation gaming tablet is a big improvement over the original.

More: BetaNews, The Verge, 9to5Google, CNET, Android Community, IntoMobile, IGN and SlashGear

Rohan Relan / TouchMarks:

iPad Mini and iPad 4 top TouchMarks' touchscreen test ranking for most responsive tablets — TouchMarks II: Touchscreen Latencies in Flagship Tablets — In our last TouchMarks report, we looked at the touchscreen latencies of the flagship smartphones from different manufacturers.

More: Guardian, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Yahoo! News, MacDailyNews, PadGadget, Gotta Be Mobile, Fortune, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macworld, PhoneArena, iClarified, I4U News, Electronista, The Next Web, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice. Tweets: @panzer

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

New Google Maps Regains Support For Multi-Destination Trips, Now Integrates Your Flights And Upcoming Events — The big, still-in-Beta Google Maps overhaul brought a bunch of new shiny stuff, from its new fullscreen interface to drastically improved public transportation integration.

More: Google LatLong, The Next Web, BetaNews, PandoDaily, Gizmodo, 9to5Google and WebProNews

Toronto Sun:

Rogers cellphone service down, Text still working for some — A wireless outage had Rogers customers across Canada fuming Wednesday. The outage began in Quebec and Ontario, but later in the evening the company acknowledged the problem was national. According to the website CanadianOutages.com …

More: CP24, CrackBerry.com, MobileSyrup.com and iPhone in Canada Blog

Tweets: @rogershelps and @galrahn

Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com:

Apparently a lot of that TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) talent left BlackBerry Sweden to start a new company called TOPP... When companies acquire other companies, it's usually for one or more of a few reasons, including: to grow market share (and take out a competitor a long the way), to acquire technology and/or to acquire talent.

More: The Verge, BGR, TechSpot and SlashGear

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Flickr iOS 7 app now automatically uploads photos to your 1TB of free storage — Yahoo is updating its iOS 7 Flickr application today to let iPhone users automatically upload photos to the service. The latest version will save photos from an iPhone camera roll straight to Flickr in full resolution.

More: The Next Web, GigaOM, CNET, iMore, 9to5Mac, IntoMobile, Engadget, everythingiCafe, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, MacRumors, TechSpot and Softpedia News

Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:

HP: We've Been a Little Late to the Game, Admits Whitman; MSFT, INTC ‘Outright Competitors’ — Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman took to the podium this morning to address analysts at the annual financial meeting. — HP shares surged 6%, or $1.32, at $22.05, after Whitman remarked that revenue would …

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Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:

Foursquare gives out unsolicited tips on iPhone — A new feature lets some members go about their lives, phone in pocket, and get alerts when the service finds something interesting for them to eat, see, or do nearby. — Foursquare is releasing a new version of its application for iPhone …

More: Foursquare Blog, The Verge, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, GeekWire, App Advice, SlashGear, PC Magazine, The Next Web and Engadget

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google brings Mobile Backend Starter, its one-click deployable cloud backend for Android, to iOS — Google today launched Mobile Backend Starter for iOS, simplifying server-side development for app developers on Apple's mobile platform. Mobile Backend Starter is a Google App Engine application …

More: Cloud Platform Blog, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, CITEworld and TechLifeWeb

Bloomberg:

Microsoft Board Said to Work on Hiring New CEO This Year — Microsoft Corp.'s board is working toward having the successor to Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer in place by the end of this year and is winnowing a list of candidates, said people with knowledge of the discussions.

Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security:

NSA uses FOXACID system to select and serve exploits to predetermined targets — The NSA's New Risk Analysis — As I recently reported in the Guardian, the NSA has secret servers on the Internet that hack into other computers, codename FOXACID. These servers provide an excellent demonstration …

More: Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE and Guardian

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Here's What a Pinterest Ad Looks Like — Pinterest today started its preannounced test of “promoted pins,” a.k.a. the first-ever revenue-generating product for the company valued at $2.5 billion. — Well, not so fast on the revenue front. Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann said in September …

More: TechCrunch, ReadWrite, Engadget, Marketing Land, Valleywag, internetretailer.com, Marketing Pilgrim, Skift and WebProNews

Lora Kolodny / Venture Capital Dispatch:

Smartling Raises $24 Million to Translate Everything Online … While most tech startups are sweating bullets over globalization-from thwarting overseas copycats to mastering pricing in multiple currencies-one company, Smartling Inc., has found a way to profit from it while helping others do so, too.

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