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October 15, 2013, 2:20 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.

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

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

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

More: Digits, stratechery, Forbes, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, ZDNet, PhoneArena, memeburn and BBC

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.

More: The Loop, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, MacRumors, BGR, BGR, Guardian, Digits, Examiner, Mercury News, LAPTOP Magazine, ABC News, Tech Trader Daily, GeekWire, AppleInsider, CNET, ZDNet, Macworld, Business Insider, Gizmodo, ABC News, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, PadGadget, iLounge, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, AppleTell, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, MacStories and iClarified

Tweets: @cwarzel, @acedtect and @markgurman

Washington Post:

NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally — The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials …

More: InfoWorld, Washington Post, The Switch, Examiner, BBC, Errata Security, DSLreports, ReadWrite, iDownloadBlog.com, Inquirer, GigaOM, Mashable, Lastest ITProPortal news, CNET and ZDNet

Tweets: @levie, @washingtonpost, @mikko, @sarahw, @krmaher, @mattbuchanan, @smarimc, @declanm, @pierre and @riskybusiness

Washington Post:

The NSA's problem? Too much data.

More: Techdirt, InfoWorld, PC World, The Switch and WebProNews

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: SiliconBeat, CNET, Examiner, SiliconANGLE, Marketing Land, Pocket-lint, Telegraph, Lastest ITProPortal news, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, Phones Review, I4U News and Gearburn. Tweets: @dannysullivan. 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, The Verge, The Virb Blog, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Domain Name Wire and Web Host Industry Review. Tweets: @viticci

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: 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, BGR, GeekWire, ZDNet, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Business Insider and Engadget. Tweets: @fosspatents

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: GigaOM. Tweets: @hblodget, @danprimack, @dannysullivan, @justinnxt, @mattbuchanan and @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Supercell Dominates The Realm: Game Maker Sells A 51%, $1.53B Stake To SoftBank and GungHo Online — Another big move for Softbank into the gaming world, and a massive investment for Finnish gaming juggernaut Supercell: the company is selling a 51% stake for $1.53 billion to Japan's SoftBank …

More: Supercell Blog, The Verge, ArcticStartup, BGR, VentureBeat, New York Times, AllThingsD, PandoDaily, Forbes, The Next Web, Business Insider, Tech in Asia, GigaOM, www.pocketgamer.biz, Bloomberg and The Next Web

Bonnie Cha / AllThingsD:

Sony's Latest Xperia Phones, SmartWatch 2 Launch in U.S.; No Carrier Announcements Yet — After making the rounds in Europe and Asia, Sony announced today the U.S. availability of its Xperia Z Ultra and Xperia Z1 smartphones, and the SmartWatch 2. But a word of caution: If you're eyeing one of these phones, it's going to cost you.

More: Computerworld, The Verge, 9to5Google, LAPTOP Magazine, TechHive, BGR, Engadget, SlashGear, SlashGear and Electronista

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Android 4.4 KitKat will let you choose your own default texting app — Android users will be able to choose third-party apps to handle their text messaging by default when the operating system's next big update, version 4.4 KitKat, eventually launches. On its developer blog …

More: Android Developers Blog, TechSpot, Gearburn, Phones Review and The Next Web

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Flickr redesigns individual picture pages with 25 percent larger photos — Flickr has been all about putting big, bold, beautiful photos front and center since the website's massive redesign in May, but Yahoo just found one more place to make those photos bigger and more beautiful: individual photo pages.

More: Flickr Blog, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Gizmodo and WebProNews. Tweets: @iannolan1

Mikael Ricknäs / PC World:

VMware acquires Desktone, makes network virtualization generally available — VMware continues to push its plan to virtualize the whole data center, with the general availability of its network virtualization platform, and desktops too with the acquisition of desktop-as-a service company Desktone.

More: Network World, The Register, ZDNet, GigaOM and VMware Blogs

Christopher Heine / Adweek:

Foursquare Ads Are Now Available for All Businesses — Foursquare is rolling out its self-service ads for all companies after letting some 800 merchants test the platform in the last two months. The New York-based social-mobile firm has 1.5 million businesses using its free platform …

More: Foursquare Blog and SocialTimes

Serena Ng / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon cuts costs by shipping directly from warehouses of P&G and other key suppliers — Soap Opera: Amazon Moves in With P&G — E-Commerce Giant Sets Up Shop Inside Warehouses of Suppliers TUNKHANNOCK, Pa.—Atop a hill at the end of a road called P&G Warehouse Way sits a warehouse stocked …

More: VoIP Watch, I4U News, TechCrunch, Softpedia News and ecommercebytes.com

Mary Ellen Gordon / The Flurry Blog:

The South Korea Report: Device and App Trends in The First Saturated Device Market — In August of this year Flurry Analytics measured 33,527,534 active smartphones and tablets in South Korea. While that was only 2.8% of the entire worldwide connected device installed base Flurry measures …

More: PC Magazine, The Next Web, App Advice, Softpedia News and textually.org

Husain Sumra / MacRumors:

Siri ‘Eyes Free’ Coming to 2014 Chevy Camaro, Volt, Malibu and More — Siri “Eyes Free” mode will be coming to the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro, Volt, Malibu, SS, Cruze and Equinox via the Chevrolet MyLink service, GM announced today. Earlier this year, the Chevy Spark and Sonic were the first cars to get Siri …

More: GM Media News, App Advice, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iMore, Electronista, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear and Engadget

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, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, VentureBeat, GeekWire, CNET and iLounge

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

A web page that lasts forever: the plan to stop “link rot” in law and science — Imagine a research library where most of the books are missing footnotes — where the bottom of the pages are stained or ripped out, making it impossible for scholars to tell the sources of information.

More: Times Higher Education, Business Insider and Ars Technica. Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts. See also Mediagazer

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Vimeo PRO gets 1TB of storage, unlimited HD plays, support, and more for $199/ year in plan refresh — Vimeo is updating its premium-tier service in a way that it claims will put “more power in the hands of creative professionals and businesses.” Starting today, Vimeo PRO subscribers …

More: Softpedia News

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