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October 11, 2013, 5:30 AM

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Seven Key Designers of BlackBerry 10 Left the Company in January — The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) has decamped BlackBerry. — Earlier this year, seven members of the Swedish design house acquired by the smartphone maker to help develop BlackBerry 10, left it to found a new design group called Topp.

More: Yahoo! News, Bloomberg, CrackBerry.com, TechSpot and SlashGear

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

BlackBerry Co-Founders Lazaridis, Fregin Mulling Bid to Buy Back Company

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Reuters, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, Electronista, The Verge and ZDNet

Tweets: @markgurman and @johnpaczkowski

Financial Post:

Apple Inc looks to poach BlackBerry Ltd workers in Waterloo — Apple Inc. has all but destroyed BlackBerry Ltd.'s business model and now it's after the Canadian company's decimated workforce. — Just days after BlackBerry Ltd. revealed plans to lay off 40% of its global workforce amid …

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, MacDailyNews, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, BerryReview and Electronista

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Google to sunset Google TV brand as its smart TV platform merges with Android — Google TV is dead, long live Android TV: Three years after launching the first generation of Google TV devices, Google is now looking to rid itself of the brand and realign its smart TV platform efforts more closely with Android.

More: Softpedia News, AndroidOS.in, 9to5Google, The Verge, Phandroid, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, SlashGear, GadgetGuide4U, Pocket-lint and Droid Life

Tweets: @gigaom and @dannysullivan

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name, Highlighting Lack Of Universal Privacy Controls — “Who can look up your Timeline by name?” Anyone you haven't blocked. Facebook is removing this privacy setting, notifying those who had hidden themselves that they'll be searchable.

More: Facebook, CNET, The Atlantic Wire, VatorNews, Ars Technica, ReadWrite, eWeek, Forbes, TechWeekEurope UK, Softpedia News, Associated Press, ZDNet, Gawker, PC World, NBCNews, SlashGear, Digits, The Register, Geek News Central, Digital Trends, Pulse 2.0, AllFacebook, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, WebProNews, Inside Facebook, Mashable, GigaOM, Search Engine Land and Marketing Land

Tweets: @keithbohanna, @dansinker and @carnage4life

Thanks:@joshconstine

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Reportedly Cutting iPhone 5c Production as Chinese Gray Market Prices Drop — Apple is reportedly cutting iPhone 5c production in half from 300,000 units to 150,000 units per day, according to claims by C Technology [Google Translate], which leaked a number of photos of the iPhone 5s …

More: CNET, Softpedia News, Yahoo! News, Unwired View, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, InvestorPlace, Electronista, iClarified and Investor's Business Daily

Yuliya Chernova / Digits:

Weary of ‘Fruit Fly’ Consumer Startups, Andreessen Horowitz Raises Series A Bar — Andreessen Horowitz is one of the biggest venture firms around and an investor in some of the most prominent consumer startups in recent years, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Groupon and Zynga.

Tweets: @gaberivera, @lessien and @davegirouard

Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:

Hulu Said Close to Naming Fox's Mike Hopkins CEO of Web Service — Hulu LLC, the streaming service controlled by Walt Disney Co. and 21st Century Fox Inc., is close to naming Fox executive Mike Hopkins as its new chief executive officer, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

More: The Verge, Reuters, AllThingsD, SlashGear and GigaOM. See also Mediagazer

Jason Evangelho / Forbes:

Valve Confirms Official AMD-Powered Steam Machines For 2014 — In a statement to Forbes, a Valve representative has confirmed that AMD graphics hardware will be included in commercially available Steam Machines next year. The more interesting story, however, is why Valve needed to confirm this in the first place.

More: Gizmodo, SlashGear, ZDNet, destructoid and bit-tech.net

AllThingsD:

Vivian Schiller Is a Lock as Twitter's Head of News — Vivian Schiller, NBC News' SVP and chief digital officer, is being tapped for Twitter's head of news position, according to sources familiar with the matter. AllThingsD reported last week that she was the leading pick for the high-profile job.

More: Medium, Digits, The Verge, Engadget, GigaOM and Betabeat. See also Mediagazer

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Apple iWatch is actually a home automation play, not a smartphone companion (analyst) — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch launched a couple of weeks ago as a fat, ugly, and expensive smartphone accessory that our own Devindra Hardawar called “relentlessly inessential.”

More: MacRumors, App Advice, Forbes and iPhone Hacks

Brandon Bailey / Mercury News:

Zuckerberg buys four houses near his Palo Alto home — PALO ALTO — Living the fantasy of every homeowner who's faced the prospect of a nuisance project next door, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has bought four homes adjacent to his own 5-bedroom crash pad in one of Palo Alto's toniest neighborhoods.

Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@brandonbailey

Dan Farber / CNET:

Apple legend Bill Atkinson's new mission: Save the postcard — The creator of the Macintosh's QuickDraw graphics system, MacPaint, and HyperCard wants to save the postcard from extinction. — It's 5:00 a.m., and Bill Atkinson makes his way downstairs to begin his daily routine of, as he calls it, milking the cow.

More: SiliconBeat

JP Mangalindan / Fortune:

Can Silicon Valley boot camps get you a $120K job? — These crash courses accomplish in 12 weeks (or less) what top computer science schools might teach in four years. Welcome to the 21st century vocational school. — FORTUNE — Hiring a good software engineer in Silicon Valley these days …

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

As More Startups Move To San Francisco, Y Combinator Opens A Satellite Office In The City — Y Combinator has been a mainstay of Silicon Valley, with an office not far from the Mountain View Caltrain station. * Over the years, however, the seed-stage venture firm has seen more of its companies …

Digits:

Judge: Google's Tracking Not Harmful — It just got even tougher to stop a company from tracking your movements online. — A federal judge in Delaware Wednesday dismissed a class-action lawsuit brought against Google and two other tech companies, arguing that the Web users who brought …

More: CNET, The Verge, AppleInsider, Electronista, Bloomberg, InfoWorld and iClarified

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

A first look inside Google's futuristic quantum lab — In May, Google launched the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab with hardware from the Canadian quantum computing company D-Wave and technical expertise from NASA. It was an ambitious open research project aimed at exploring …

More: CNET, Engadget and SlashGear. Tweets: @dwavesys

Patricia Sellers / Fortune:

Profile of Katie Stanton, tech veteran helping Twitter expand in crucial international markets — Katie Stanton: Twitter's ambassador — In 2010, two weeks after Katie Jacobs Stanton joined Hillary Clinton's innovation team at the U.S. State Department, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti.

More: AllThingsD. Tweets: @clairecm, @gibbongal, @twellie, @nytimesbits and @eddie

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter Launches An Android Tablet Optimized App For The First Time - On One Tablet — In what is a poignant statement about the state of Android tablet apps, Twitter has announced the first tablet-optimized version for the platform. It's been 3 years since the iPad hit and Android tablets …

More: Twitter Blog, The Verge, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, CNET, PandoDaily, GadgetGuide4U, BetaNews, The Register, ReadWrite, TechHive, WebProNews, GigaOM, Mashable, Engadget, VentureBeat, 9to5Google and Marketing Land

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan, @panzer and @evelynrusli

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Third of millennials watch mostly online video or no broadcast TV — Thirty-four percent of millennials surveyed watch mostly online video or no broadcast television, new research from The New York Times says. — Brian Brett, the Times' executive director of customer research …

More: Washington Post, Pew Internet, Central Valley Business Times, Music Ally, Multichannel.com, Washington Post, Deadline.com and GigaOM

Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

Foxconn Admits to Labor Violations at Factory — Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. acknowledged that some student interns worked night shifts and overtime at a production site in northeast China in violation of company policy, the latest hit to the labor practices of the contract manufacturer …

More: VentureBeat

Adam Pasick / Quartz:

Your Playstation 4 may be built by Chinese students in the worst internship ever

Kyle VanHemert / Wired:

GE's Radical Software Helps Jet Engines Fix Themselves — The card-based UI and focus on contextual smarts make comparisons to Google Now a no-brainer. … A few years back, after an internal audit of their vast and various business holdings, the folks at General Electric made something of a discovery …

More: Silicon Valley Watcher. Tweets: @henningfischer, @mitchwagner, @gpetroff and @davcron

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Outlook.com for Android gets server-side search, option to download all mail, aliases, and vacation replies — Microsoft today updated its Outlook.com app for Android with four new features, including server-side search and vacation replies. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play.

More: The Microsoft Office Blog, iMore, SlashGear, ZDNet, WebProNews, Ubergizmo, SuperSite for Windows, Engadget and Electronista

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