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October 18, 2013, 3:35 PM

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple: No, We Can't Read Your iMessages (And We Don't Want to, Either) — Touting its commitment to user privacy in the wake of the NSA surveillance scandal earlier this year, Apple said that the end-to-end encryption protecting its iMessage instant-messenger service is so secure that even the company itself cannot decrypt it.

Jeremy Kirk / Macworld:

Researchers challenge Apple's claim of unbreakable iMessage encryption

More: Ars Technica, Guardian, VentureBeat, ZDNet, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Phones Review, Daily Dot, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, Apple Bitch and TUAW. Tweets: @techhive

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

HTC Loses Head of Global PR After Four Months — Just when it seems HTC has stemmed its executive exodus, another senior figure departs the Taiwanese smartphone maker. — Lorain Wong joined HTC as Vice President and head of Global PR, Corporate and Internal Communications, this past June.

More: BGR, ZDNet, Android Beat, AndroidHeadlines.com, PhoneArena, The Verge, Phandroid and IntoMobile

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Nexus 5 listing appears in the Play Store, teases 16GB for $349 — We still haven't heard anything official about Google's next Nexus phone, but tonight some people are already seeing it as an option in the Play Store. Just among our editors, some see the Nexus 4 while others get the result shown above …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

40% Of YouTube Traffic Now Mobile, Up From 25% In 2012, 6% In 2011 — It's hard to get people to concentrate long on anything on their phones and tablets, yet YouTube seems to be the exception. The video service is quickly going mobile, with small screens making up 40% of its traffic …

Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:

Google Stock Hits $1,000 for First Time Ever

More: CNET, Associated Press, The Verge, GigaOM, Digits, GeekWire, ZDNet, BGR, IntoMobile, Reuters and CNBC

Tweets: @eghosao and @howardlindzon

Thanks:@toddwasserman

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Lenovo announces A10 Android laptop amid slumping PC sales — After unintentionally leaking its existence, Lenovo has today officially announced the A10 Android laptop. It's the first laptop from the world's top PC vendor to ship with Android 4.2 on board.

More: Engadget, Lenovo Newsroom, Electronista, Softpedia News and AndroidHeadlines.com

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google partners with Facebook to help its clients sell ads via the social network's FBX platform — Google today announced a partnership with Facebook based on the way both companies generate the larger majority of their respective revenue: ads. Google will participate in FBX …

More: TechCrunch

Payam Shodjai / DoubleClick Advertiser Blog:

DoubleClick Bid Manager Joins FBX, Facebook's Real-Time Bidding Exchange — Partnership has been key to Google's success as a rising tide lifts all boats. So we're excited to announce a new way to help our clients succeed by working with Facebook to participate in FBX, their real-time bidding exchange.

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Aereo comes to Detroit on October 28. Can it really hit 22 cities by the end of 2013? — Aereo is coming to Detroit and surrounding counties on October 28, the company announced Friday. — Detroit is the thirteenth city where Aereo has announced plans to launch this year.

More: All Aereo, DSLreports, Engadget, CNET, dailywireless.org, TechCrunch and Softpedia News. See also Mediagazer

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Jeff Bezos's League of Shadows — Amazon can be a uniquely challenging place to work, with its question-mark emergencies and the occasionally volcanic outburst from the visionary chief executive. It's a place where promotions are hard-fought and sometimes painfully public.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @felixgillette, @eghosao, @jimaley and @counterparties

Killian Bell / Cult of Mac:

Apple Recalls MacBook Air Flash Storage Sold Between June 2012 & June 2013 — Apple has recalled 64GB and 128GB flash storage drives that were used in the previous generation MacBook Air. The systems were sold during June 2012 and June 2013, and those affected qualify for a free flash …

More: Apple, Examiner, The Register, iMore, 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, Network World, Ars Technica, GigaOM, Geek.com, Softpedia News, Gizmodo and The Next Web

Matt Jarzemsky / Wall Street Journal:

NYSE to Test Trading System in Preparation for Twitter IPO — Notice to traders announces dry run to be held on Oct. 26, after technical failures marred Facebook's IPO. — The New York Stock Exchange will allow trading firms to test their systems in preparation for Twitter Inc.'s initial public offering …

More: VentureBeat

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

As Suitors Swarm, Imgur Partners With Yahoo to Host Images — Imgur, the image hosting site, receives 100 million monthly unique visitors, it announced last month. That's big. — The company still isn't, though — tiny and bootstrapped, it is based in San Francisco and has fewer than 10 employees.

David Pogue / New York Times:

Windows 8.1: An improvement for touch devices, but still feels jarring — Reconciling 2 Worlds With Windows 8.1 — Just about one year ago, Microsoft gave us two new operating systems. — One was a new version of Windows: the one for use with mouse and keyboard, the one whose desktop …

More: Business Insider, Global Nerdy, Digits, Daring Fireball and CNET

Tweets: @fxshaw, @fxshaw, @kfury, @evelynrusli, @danieleran and @treestman

Harry McCracken / TIME:

Windows 8.1 Is the First Rough Draft of ‘One Microsoft’

More: TechNet Blogs. Thanks:@mariedomingo

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Black Market Reloaded, Silk Road's main competitor, shuts down due to security breach — Silk Road's main competitor shuts down indefinitely — Black Market Reloaded, the digital black market that was the largest competitor to the recently-busted Silk Road, just announced it's closing and refunding users' money.

More: Slate, My Blog, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Guardian and Business Insider

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Samsung set-top box uses mediocre Smart TV software to compete with Roku, Apple TV — Samsung isn't known for its software, but that hasn't stopped the company from pushing its Smart TV interface, which offers access to video streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu Plus, HBO Go, and MLB.TV, as well as a selection of other utilities.

More: Zatz Not Funny!, Gizmodo, Wired and Ubergizmo

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Samsung $150 smart box packs in streaming apps, cable

More: Business Wire, ITworld.com and Gearburn

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

AMD beats earnings targets as game console revenue kicks in — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Advanced Micro Devices has the next generation of home video game consoles to thanks for the good news in its earning report. — AMD reported financial results today that slightly beat Wall Street's expectations …

More: Tech Trader Daily, PC World, Inquirer, Computerworld, Tech Trader Daily, The Register, The Verge, eWeek, GigaOM, ITworld.com, ZDNet and Marketwired

Electronista:

AMD posts $1.46 billion quarterly revenue, returns to profitability

More: VentureBeat

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