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October 14, 2013, 2:35 PM

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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Announces Update 3 For Windows Phone 8 Coming This Year With Larger Screens, More Live Tiles — Today Microsoft announced its third update to Windows Phone 8. This is the set of new features and upgrades that will carry the smartphone platform through the holiday sales cycle.

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft bypasses carriers to deliver early Windows Phone updates — Microsoft may have only just announced Windows Phone 8 Update 3, but the company plans to start delivering it to developers later today. After over a year in the making, Microsoft is finally launching its Windows Phone Preview for developers.

More: The Windows Blog, ParisLemon, ZDNet, BetaNews, Windows Phone Central, WinBeta, The Next Web, Engadget, WMPoweruser, Gizmodo, MobileBurn.com, WebProNews and My Nokia Blog. Tweets: @zpower

Pradeep / WMPoweruser:

Windows Phone 8 GDR3 Aka Update 3 Preview Download Available

More: LiveSide.net, The Verge, All About Windows Phone, pocketnow.com and Gotta Be Mobile

D. T. Max / New Yorker:

After Twitter and Square, What is Jack Dorsey's Next Move? — Jack Dorsey, the tech entrepreneur, takes the No. 1 bus to work, and he likes to catch the 7:06. It carries him nearly from one side of San Francisco to the other—down California Street almost to Market.

More: AllThingsD, Digits, The Verge, Business Insider, Betabeat, Mashable and The Awl

Tweets: @zseward, @zseward, @benpopper, @mattbuchanan and @caseynewton

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Jack Dorsey denies ousting forgotten founder, as he tells his side of Twitter's early story — With an upcoming IPO, Twitter has a vested interest in smoothing out people's perceptions of its founding story. So perhaps its no surprise to see a New Yorker profile on Jack Dorsey which gives …

More: The 6th Floor, Softpedia News and Mashable. See also Mediagazer

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

iPhone 5s Outselling iPhone 5c Two-to-One — Asked during Apple's last earnings call if he feared the higher end of the smartphone market was nearing saturation, CEO Tim Cook said he did not. “I don't subscribe to the common view that the higher end, if you will, of the smartphone market is at its peak,” Cook said.

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

HTC One max: an awkwardly large One variant with a poorly implemented fingerprint scanner — HTC One max review: a lot more of the same — The power button is on the side — Homer's two great works, The Iliad and The Odyssey, are technically poems. In the exact same way that an inch-thick tome …

More: The Next Web, Inquirer, ABC News, ZDNet, Daring Fireball, Android Beat, Gearburn and The Droid Guy

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @dcseifert

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

HTC One max official with 5.9-inch display and fingerprint scanner — HTC's long-rumored One max device has finally become official, and the numerous leaks were right on the money: it's a 5.9-inch enlargement of the HTC One, including the same Snapdragon 600 processor, same 4-megapixel UltraPixel camera, and much of the same design.

More: Engadget, The Next Web, LAPTOP Magazine, GigaOM, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, ZDNet, TechHive, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, pocketnow.com, BGR, newlaunches.com, The Droid Guy, TechSpot, Gotta Be Mobile, Digital Trends, Inquirer, Softpedia News and TechCrunch. Tweets: @vladsavov

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Facebook Buys Mobile Data Analytics Company Onavo, Reportedly For Up To $200M... And (Finally?) Gets Its Office In Israel — Big news for a Monday/late Sunday night (depending on where you are): Onavo, the Tel Aviv-based mobile analytics company, has just announced that it has been acquired by Facebook.

Brad Molen / Engadget:

LG G Flex curved smartphone revealed in press renders, will launch next month (update: 6-inch display) — LG has admitted that “bendable and unbreakable” smartphone displays are already in production, and we've heard plenty of rumors about a device known as the G Flex which features the new tech.

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

Netflix in talks with cable providers to make its service available on set-top boxes — Netflix Pursues Cable-TV Deals — Online Video Service Would Be Available on Set-Top Boxes - Netflix Inc. is in talks with several U.S. pay-television providers including Comcast Corp …

Matt Brian / Engadget:

Google readying ‘Mobile Meter’ app that offers rewards for tracking mobile usage — Google already knows better than most how we use the internet. Now it wants to dig a little deeper and monitor your app usage as well. Engadget has learned that the company is readying a new mobile service …

More: The Verge and SlashGear

Reuters:

Canadian gov't to push cable providers to unbundle channels — The Canadian government will soon require cable and satellite television providers to make it easier for customers to buy only the channels they want rather than pay for bundles, the country's industry minister said on Sunday.

More: Examiner, TechCrunch, GigaOM, The Verge, CNET, Ars Technica, SlashGear, Canadian Press, Globe and Mail and Electronista

Tweets: @alistairjhogg, @rowast and @rafat

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