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Patrick May / Mercury News:

Cupertino council clears huge Apple ‘spaceship’ campus for liftoff — CUPERTINO — Apple's (AAPL) proposed new spaceship-shaped headquarters got a super-charged blast-off Tuesday night when the Cupertino City Council voted unanimously to approve the 2.8-million-square-foot behemoth beside Interstate 280 …

Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Cuts iPhone 5C Orders — Move Raises Concerns About Demand, Pricing Strategy for Low-Cost Device — A customer looks at an Apple iPhone 5c at a store in Palo Alto, Calif., on Sept. 20. Bloomberg News — HONG KONG— Apple Inc. has notified its two assemblers for the low-cost iPhone 5C …

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

What comes next after Windows 8.1? — Summary: Microsoft's Windows 8.1 will be commercially available starting this week. What will Microsoft do for an encore on the Windows front? — Microsoft is making Windows 8.1 commercially available over the next day-plus (depending on your time zone).

More: TechCrunch, GeekWire, BGR, PC World, Softpedia News, BetaNews, WinBeta and WMPoweruser

Reuters:

U.S. eavesdropping agency chief, top deputy expected to depart soon — (Reuters) - The director of the U.S. National Security Agency and his deputy are expected to depart in the coming months, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, in a development that could give President Barack Obama a chance to reshape the eavesdropping agency.

More: The Verge

Sarah Kessler / Fast Company:

Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here's What It Takes — Nico Sell, the cofounder of a secure communication app called Wickr, has appeared on television twice. Both times, she wore sunglasses to prevent viewers from getting a full picture of what she looks like.

More: GigaOM. Thanks:@_trendspotter

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

eBay Barely Beats Investor Expectations With Revenue Of $3.9B, Stock Falls 5% In After-Hours Trading — eBay reported its third-quarter financial performance today, including revenue of $3.9 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.64. The company's revenue was up 14 percent …

More: Business Wire, CNET, VentureBeat, Business Insider, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, internetretailer.com, WebProNews and AllThingsD

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook Aims to Court Teens With More Public Posting Options — The adage should be familiar by now: Teens may have a Facebook profile, but they sure don't think it's cool anymore. — In a move on Wednesday afternoon, however, Facebook is starting to become a bit like its younger, hipper competitors.

More: Facebook, CNET, New York Times, The Verge, Mercury News, Digits, The Next Web and TechCrunch

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

IBM's Q3 mixed, hardware business thumped — Summary: IBM's earnings were better than expected for the third quarter, but sales fell short. The systems and technology division saw sales fall 19 percent from a year ago. — IBM delivered mixed third quarter results with earnings …

More: IBM, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Reuters, Tech Trader Daily and Business Insider

Tad Hirsch / Public Practice Studio:

Early status-sharing service TXTmob inspired Twitter; Jack Dorsey's contribution overstated — TXTmob and Twitter: A Reply to Nick Bilton — 2004 Ruckus Society SMS Summit, Oakland California. That's me on the couch in the black T-shirt with white lettering. Evan is in the foreground, with pony tail.

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @rabble, @chanders, @mattrosoff, @noii and @pkafka

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Watch out, Nike: Adidas announces smartwatch for runners, starting at $399 — SAN FRANCISCO - Another big shoe brand just joined Nike in the wearable technology race: Adidas. — At today's GigaOM Mobilize conference in San Francisco, Paul Gaudio, the Vice President in charge …

More: The Verge, SlashGear, GigaOM, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget and Mashable

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Lenovo intros the Miix2, its first 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet; coming soon for $299 — Remember when we reviewed Acer's (sorta crappy) W3 tablet, and assured you it wouldn't be long before we saw more 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablets? Well, with that latest Windows update due out tomorrow …

More: Lenovo Newsroom, ZDNet, GigaOM, PC Magazine, PC World, BetaNews, LAPTOP Magazine and Gotta Be Mobile

Brad Chacos / PC World:

Microsoft reveals Windows 8.1's mysterious Movie Maker app, other app improvements — Movie Moments, the proverbial white whale of Windows 8 apps, has finally been hauled into the light on the eve of Windows 8.1's release, courtesy of a Microsoft blog post that introduces the new app …

More: The Windows Blog, The Verge, LiveSide.net, Windows Phone Central, WinBeta, BetaNews, TechNet Blogs and Softpedia News. Tweets: @gaborfari

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Square Cash lets anyone with a debit card send money instantly over email — What if sending money was as simple as sending an email? — That's the premise of Square Cash, launching today for all debit card users in the US, using any email service. To use Square Cash …

Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:

Square Cash is the quickest, simplest way to send money from your debit card to anyone else's

More: Sqaure, SiliconANGLE, Daring Fireball, Quartz, MobilePaymentsToday.com News, Softpedia News and Payments News. Tweets: @jack

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

LinkedIn brings its Work With Us job tool to mobile, launches iOS app to help recruiters manage candidates — LinkedIn today unveiled two new mobile products designed to help recruiters and job candidates better connect with one another and “increase productivity”.

More: Talent Blog, Official LinkedIn Blog, ZDNet and AllThingsD

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Akamai: Half Of All Internet Connections Now At 4Mbps+, Safari Remains Most Used Mobile Browser Globally — The ITU has recently published figures noting 2.7 billion internet connections globally, and today Akamai has released some numbers pointing to how fast those connections actually are.

More: Akamai, CNET, Inquirer, Softpedia News, GigaOM, WebProNews and Bloomberg

Matthew M. Aid / Foreign Policy:

The NSA's New Codebreakers — America's using front companies, break-in artists, and hacktivists to spy on everyone — and only North Korea seems able to resist. — There was a time when the codebreakers of the National Security Agency actually took the lead in solving enemy encryption systems.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @ashk4n and @csoghoian

Brenna Hillier / VG247:

Xbox Live Compute gives free cloud tech to all devs, including dedicated servers — Microsoft is making its Xbox One cloud servers free for all developers to use, including dedicated server support for all multiplayer games. — In an Xbox Newswire post, Xbox Live's lead program manager …

More: Xbox Wire, GamesIndustry International, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Shacknews Recent Articles, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, Gotta Be Mobile, TechNet Blogs and destructoid

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

500 Startups Is Raising $100 Million For Its Third Early-Stage Investment Fund — “Always be raising.” — It's not a bad motto, and it's one that Dave McClure's 500 Startups seems to be taking to heart. After all, it had just recently closed Fund I when an SEC filing dropped alerting us …

More: VentureBeat

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Aviate: an always-changing, intelligent home screen for Android — What if Google Now was made of the icons on your home screen? — “We want to connect people to personalized information at the moment it's useful,” reads the mission statement of Aviate, a replacement launcher for Android available today in private beta.

More: Engadget, GigaOM, IntoMobile, PandoDaily, PC World, MobileSyrup.com, The Next Web, TechCrunch, TIME and Gizmodo. Tweets: @starfire2258. Thanks:@dmfreeman

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google to retire Chrome support for Windows XP users in April 2015, a year after Microsoft stops updating the OS — Google today announced it will stop supporting Chrome on Windows XP in April 2015. This means the company will stop providing regular updates and security patches a year …

More: Google Chrome Blog, Computerworld, PC World, WebProNews, BetaNews, CITEworld, Softpedia News and 9to5Google

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