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October 23, 2013, 7:00 PM

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Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

LinkedIn announces Intro, a new service that brings LinkedIn profiles into the iOS Mail app — LinkedIn's made mobile a major focus over the last year, and today the company is announcing a number of new mobile initiatives. At an event in San Francisco, CEO Jeff Weiner and the rest …

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, Official LinkedIn Blog, Engadget, PC World, The Next Web, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Engadget and CNET. See also Mediagazer

Martin Kleppmann / LinkedIn Engineering:

LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS — We recently launched LinkedIn Intro — a new product that shows you LinkedIn profiles, right inside the native iPhone mail client. That's right: we have extended Apple's built-in iOS Mail app, a feat that many people consider to be impossible.

Tweets: @0xabad1dea, @maniacyak, @counternotions, @shanselman, @jasonlbaptiste, @adora and @cranialstrain

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Hits 38% Of Unique Visits From Mobile, Up From 8% In Q1 2011 — LinkedIn is making the shift to mobile. It now sees 38 percent of unique visits from mobile, which is up from 8 percent in the first quarter of 2011, and users who access via mobile are 2.5x as active as desktop-only users.

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, Digits, TechHive, ReadWrite, CNET, Fortune, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Forbes, VentureBeat and ZDNet. Tweets: @raju

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Meet the New Mobile LinkedIn: The Professional Network Disguised as a Consumer Site

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AllThingsD:

Pinterest Does Another Massive Funding — $225 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation (Confirmed) — According to several sources, Pinterest has completed another enormous funding, this time nabbing $225 million with late-stage investor Fidelity Investments in the lead.

More: VentureBeat, CNET, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Forbes and Mashable. See also Mediagazer

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Microsoft Bashes Apple's iWork Software, New iPads — Microsoft's corporate vice president of communications, Frank Shaw, today took to the Official Microsoft Blog to denounce both Apple's revamped iWork software and the company's well-received decision to distribute it as a free upgrade for existing users.

More: TechNet Blogs, Daring Fireball, VentureBeat, The Verge, Computerworld, AppleInsider, GeekWire, BGR, The Next Web, Computerworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear and WindowsObserver.com. Tweets: @dsilverman

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Free Mavericks upgrade mirrors Apple's iOS strategy: use software to sell premium hardware

More: Macworld, ParisLemon and Wired

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

All Of The Ways Apple's New Free Mac OS Hurts Microsoft Windows

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Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits:

Apple's pricing of iWork, Microsoft's hesitation with Office for iOS seen as strategic plays

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Greg Koenig / Atomic Delights:

How Apple Makes the Mac Pro — As a product designer, one of my favorite parts about any new Apple product launch is the inevitable “How it's made” video. The Mac Pro video did not disappoint. — What makes Apple fascinating is not that they are using some wiz-bang alien technologies to make things …

More: iMore, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com and Daring Fireball

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Google Testing Huge Banner Ads For Branded Queries — Google has confirmed that they are testing incredibly large banner ads for specific branded queries. — @SynrgyHQ posted an image on Twitter showing for the query [southwest airlines a huge “sponsored” ad at the top of the search results.

More: BGR, Mashable, Marketing Land, The Verge, SlashGear and WebProNews

Tweets: @yaamyn, @dannysullivan and @anildash

Sam Byford / The Verge:

LG's curved-screen G Flex smartphone revealed in photos and video — We've seen rendered images of LG's G Flex and its curved OLED display, but the device itself has proven elusive — until now. Argentinian broadcaster Telefe Noticias managed to obtain the phone for an in-studio hands-on video …

Michelle Leder / footnoted*:

Twitter quietly doubles board compensation — On a day when much of the tech world was focused on Apple's big Ipad announcement, complete with live-blogging updates like this one from our friends at GigaOm, Twitter quietly filed its latest revised S-1. The 512-page document was filed …

More: Business Insider, Digits, Fortune and Bloomberg. Thanks:@obrien

iFixit:

Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Teardown — Today, Microsoft adds a new surface to their tablet line. No, not a third dimension—leave those 3D glasses at the theater. Instead, let your friends at iFixit break out the X-ray specs and show you what's inside the new Surface Pro 2.

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ICANN:

Internet Domain Name Expansion Now Underway — Los Angeles, California... The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that the first new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) from its New gTLD Program were delegated. This means they were introduced …

More: ICANN, CNET, Mashable, CircleID, Digits, The Next Web, BBC, SlashGear and The Register

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Yahoo acquires image recognition startup LookFlow to improve discovery in Flickr, build a deep learning group — Yahoo today acquired LookFlow, a startup that was building new ways for people to find, explore, collect, and share content they're interested in.

More: VatorNews, Computerworld, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Mashable

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

LG unveils the Fireweb, its first Firefox OS smartphone (video) — So far, Firefox OS has been limited to ultra-basic smartphones like the ZTE Open. LG is expanding the platform's reach today by releasing its inaugural Mozilla-powered handset, the Fireweb.

More: The Mozilla Blog, pocketnow.com, Computerworld, Pocket-lint, I4U News, Phones Review, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Unwired View, Telecompaper, CNET, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Electronista, Geeky Gadgets, VentureBeat and SlashGear

Dale Peterson / Digital Bond's SCADA Security Portal:

Call Yourself A Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights — The US District Court for the State of Idaho ruled that an ICS product developer's computer could be seized without him being notified or even heard from in court primarily because he states on his web site “we like hacking things and don't want to stop”.

More: Examiner, Techdirt, The Verge, Computerworld, Business Insider and TechEye

Rachel King / ZDNet:

AT&T boasts ‘record’ smartphone sales as Q3 lines up with estimates — Summary: Wall Street was looking for earnings of 65 cents per share on a revenue of $32.19 billion. — AT&T reported third quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday. — The nation's second largest mobile provider reported …

More: VentureBeat, Computerworld, Business Wire, BGR, CNET and The Register

Steve Dent / Engadget:

Samsung acquires 7.4 percent of Gorilla Glass maker Corning, signs long-term supply deal — In a move that could raise eyebrows in the LCD business, Corning has taken full control of Samsung Corning Precision Materials Co. Ltd., a joint venture 43 percent owned by Samsung.

Bonnie Cha / AllThingsD:

T-Mobile's Next Act: 200MB Free Data Monthly for Tablets, Plus Trade-In Program — In its latest move to be the “Uncarrier,” T-Mobile today announced new plans for tablets that include a free monthly allotment of 4G LTE data for the life of the product, and the option to purchase a new device …

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, Gigaom, CNET, BGR, NYT Bits and Gizmodo. Tweets: @tmobile

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Why would anyone buy an iPad 2 now? — For $399, Apple's iPad mini with Retina display is a far better choice — Yesterday, Apple announced two new iPads: the iPad Air, and the iPad mini with Retina display. Both carry Apple's speedy new A7 processor, and both come with high-resolution screens.

More: AppleInsider, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, Gizmodo and TechCrunch

Tweets: @davidixon and @verge

David Meyer / Gigaom:

Snowden revelations hit war on terror as EU MPs call for suspension of data-sharing deal — The European Parliament has voted to suspend a data-sharing agreement with the U.S., which gave the Americans access to certain details of financial transactions in order to track terrorist financing.

More: ZDNet, EU Press Room, Inquirer, PC World, BBC and Slate. See also Mediagazer

Patrick Hoge / bizjournals:

Facebook's Zuckerberg highest-paid CEO at $2.28 billion — Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg was the highest paid CEO of a North American public company last year, with total compensation of $2.28 billion — almost all of it coming from share options exercised when Facebook went public …

More: GMI Ratings, GeekWire, TechSpot, Variety, ValueWalk, USA Today, Guardian, ABC News, WebProNews and I4U News

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

Apple's ossification, lack of vision sans Jobs, Forstall palpable in yesterday's presentation — Whither Liberal Arts? The Missing iPad Story — Steve Jobs closed the January, 2010 introduction of the iPad with this now famous slide: — Steve Jobs and the intersection of technology and the liberal arts

More: TUAW, iMore and Daring Fireball

Chris Kanaracus / PC World:

Oracle buys sales order automation specialist BigMachines — Oracle is hoping to differentiate its CRM (customer relationship management) software from the competition with the acquisition of BigMachines, whose cloud-based system helps salespeople quickly put together and price complex orders.

More: Marketwired, ZDNet, AllThingsD, Business Insider, MarketWatch, bizjournals and VentureBeat

Christina Farr / VentureBeat:

Intuit brings on ‘big data’ big guns with Level Up Analytics acquisition (exclusive) — Level Up Analytics founders Jonathan Goldman, Lucian Vlad Lita, Anu Tewary — Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 — Intuit just acquired Level Up Analytics, a consulting firm run by data scientists …

More: TechCrunch and ZDNet. Tweets: @toddfast. Thanks:@chrissyfarr

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