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October 15, 2013, 6:40 PM

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Apple:

Angela Ahrendts to Join Apple as Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores — Apple® today announced that Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry, will be joining Apple in a newly created position, as a senior vice president and member of our executive team, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.

More: AllThingsD, jessica lessin, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Digital Media Wire, CNNMoney.com, New York Times, GigaOM, Burberry, Wired, Bloomberg, Cult of Mac, Forbes, GeekWire, Digits, ABC News, The Register, TechSpot, CNET, VatorNews, Macworld, ReadWrite, Reuters, Businessweek, everythingiCafe, LAPTOP Magazine, Wall Street Journal, PadGadget and Macgasm

Tweets: @parislemon, @laureni, @parislemon and @joshconstine

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Tim Cook talks hiring of Angela Ahrendts as Retail chief, says she is ‘best person in the world for this role’ — Last night, Apple announced that it had finally found a new Head of Retail: Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts. Ahrendts has been CEO of the fashion retailer for several years …

More: eWeek, AllThingsD, GigaOM, MacRumors, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and GeekWire

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Apple Ups Its Fashion Cred, Names Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts As SVP Of Retail And Online Stores

More: Digits and Forbes

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Announces October 22 Event: “We Still Have a Lot to Cover” — Apple this morning distributed invitations to a special event at which it's expected to unveil the next iterations of the iPad and iPad mini. And it's to be held on October 22, just as AllThingsD said it would.

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter Announces It Will List On The NYSE Under TWTR — Twitter has amended its S-1 filing to note that it will be listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the TWTR symbol, a detail that was omitted from the original filing. The new document was uploaded to its EDGAR archive today.

More: CNBC, Engadget, Business Insider, GeekWire, ZDNet, The Verge, The Next Web, AllThingsD, TechHive, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes and Mashable

Tweets: @mattlynley, @dannysullivan, @kaylatausche, @dylanbyers and @dougkass

Thanks:@alexia

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Twitter Revenue More Than Doubles in Third Quarter

More: Reuters. Tweets: @panzer, @rolfewinkler and @zseward. See also Mediagazer

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft is not killing the Windows Phone back button — Recent rumors suggest that Microsoft may be planning to kill off the back button in Windows Phone 8.1. While the requirement for a hardware back button will likely be dropped, sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed …

More: WMPoweruser, Windows Phone Central, My Nokia Blog, pocketnow.com, Pocket-lint and WinBeta

Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

Dave Morin Laid Off 20 Percent of Path Employees Today — Dave Morin's social networking app Path laid off 13 employees today, which represents 20 percent of the company's staff. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the layoffs, saying, “We're working to realign the company to support continued innovation and Path 4.0.”

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, AllThingsD, Business Insider and Macgasm

Tweets: @jordankahn, @tsimonite, @laureni and @samfbiddle

Dann Berg / The Verge:

Nike announces new and more colorful Nike+ FuelBand SE — Nike has announced the new Nike+ Fuelband SE at an event here in New York City. The band now has some color, with the options of yellow, pink, or red accenting an otherwise black body. — The announcement comes shortly …

More: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Digits, VentureBeat, TechHive, App Advice, MacRumors, Macgasm, GeekWire, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET and iPhone in Canada Blog

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Earnings and Revenue Down — Yahoo Delivers on Expected Lackluster Quarter — Yahoo met weak financial expectations, turning in what can only be described as lackluster performance in its third-quarter earnings today. — The Silicon Valley Internet giant said it earned 34 cents …

More: Yahoo, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Digits, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Mercury News, The Verge, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, TechnoBuffalo, Bloomberg and WebProNews

Tweets: @yahooinc and @yahooinc

See also Mediagazer

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:

Google Watch is happening soon, heavy into Kit Kat/Google Now functionality — I recently heard word that Google was putting the finishing touches on a Watch product. Details are slim but the person seemed to think that Google Now functionality would be at the center of the product.

More: Business Insider, CNET, SiliconBeat, Pocket-lint, Lastest ITProPortal news, Examiner, Marketing Land, Evolver.fm and SiliconANGLE. Thanks:@jordankahn

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

GoDaddy Buys Media Temple To Build Up Its Business With Web Professionals — Domain registration and hosting company GoDaddy is continuing on its acquisitions roll, with the announcement today that it acquired Media Temple, a premium domain hosting and website services company based …

More: MediaTemple Weblog, MediaTemple Weblog, Marco.org, The Virb Blog, The Verge, GigaOM, Web Host Industry Review and VentureBeat. Tweets: @viticci

Antoine Gara / TheStreet.com:

Irish Budget Proposes End to Apple Tax Shelter — Stock quotes in this article: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT — NEW YORK TheStreet — The Irish government said on Tuesday that it will consider eliminating a treatment that allows firms such as Apple (AAPL) to be taxed as a “stateless” …

More: Reuters, Examiner, AllThingsD, The Verge, MacRumors, Electronista, Cult of Mac, International Business Times, Bloomberg, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Irish Times, Herald.ie, BBC and Quartz

Reid Hoffman:

LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs — At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn't matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we're considering an investment, or whether we're casually meeting for the first time.

More: Business Insider and Fortune. Tweets: @reidhoffman

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

HTC to make future Amazon phones, according to report — Rumors of an Amazon smartphone have circulated for well over a year now, but a new report out today says that the retail giant will use HTC to make its upcoming devices. Three different smartphones are said to be in development …

More: Financial Times, jessica lessin, Ars Technica, Examiner, Computerworld, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google, dailywireless.org, Business Insider and IntoMobile

Tweets: @panzer and @fosspatents

Mariella Moon / Engadget:

T-Mobile to replace grandfathered plans with new rates — Many loyal T-Mobile customers will have to kiss their grandfathered plans goodbye. That's because the carrier is sunsetting legacy plans and moving subscribers to new ones, Big Magenta has confirmed to Engadget.

More: 9to5Google, Gizmodo, CNET, The Verge, Electronista, iMore, Android Community, Droid Life, PhoneNews.com, TechnoBuffalo and Gotta Be Mobile

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Intel Beats The Street In Q3 2013 With $13.5 Billion In Revenue And $0.53 EPS — Well, it's that time again — famed chipmaker Intel has just reported its fiscal Q3 2013 earnings and they're just a bit better than expected. The company reported quarterly revenue of $13.5 billion …

More: Intel, VentureBeat, PC World, Mercury News, Engadget, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and Reuters

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Vox Media Raises $34 Million to Build SB Nation, the Verge, Polygon — Tech investors are supposed to avoid content businesses. But they do make exceptions: The people who brought you Huffington Post, for example, have been able to raise a ton of money for BuzzFeed.

More: TechCrunch, PE Hub Blog and GigaOM

Tweets: @danprimack, @justinnxt, @mattbuchanan, @dannysullivan, @pkafka and @hblodget

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