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October 23, 2013, 9:05 PM

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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: Business Insider, CNET, Digits, PandoDaily, The Next Web, Marketing Land, Forbes, TechCrunch, DealBook, Skift and Mashable

Tweets: @bendwalsh, @brooke and @felixsalmon

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, Macworld, Engadget, 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.

More: ITworld.com. Tweets: @0xabad1dea, @shanselman, @jasonlbaptiste, @maniacyak, @cranialstrain, @adora and @counternotions

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Hits 38% Of Unique Visits From Mobile, Up From 8% In Q1 2011

More: eWeek, Official LinkedIn Blog, AppleInsider, San Francisco Chronicle, Digits, Associated Press, Gigaom, VentureBeat, CNET, ReadWrite, Forbes, VentureBeat, Fortune and ZDNet. Tweets: @raju

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

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

More: NYT Bits and SlashGear

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, VentureBeat, The Verge, Computerworld, AppleInsider, ParisLemon, 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: Associated Press, Macworld, ParisLemon and Wired

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

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

More: ITworld.com and SiliconANGLE

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 and Gizmodo

Tweets: @starfire2258, @davidixon and @verge

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Apple has sold 170M iPads to date, implying sales near 15M in Sept. quarter

More: Digits, BGR, InvestorPlace, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone in Canada Blog

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: NYT Bits, BGR, Mashable, The Verge, SlashGear, Marketing Land and WebProNews

Tweets: @yaamyn, @dannysullivan and @anildash

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, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors and iDownloadBlog.com

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

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, ReadWrite, CNET, Mashable, CircleID, The Next Web, SlashGear, Digits, BBC and The Register

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.

More: Ars Technica, The Register, Inquirer, PC World, Geek.com, TechSpot, ZDNet, Engadget, PhoneArena, CNET, Softpedia News, Pureinfotech Newsletter, Macgasm and Gizmodo

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 …

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

Yesterday's presentation suggests Apple lacks vision for the iPad sans Jobs, Forstall — 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: Daring Fireball. Tweets: @ggreeneva, @joshconstine, @johnpaczkowski, @wconcepts, @davidegreenwald, @odannyboy and @reckless

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: Associated Press, VatorNews, Computerworld, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Mashable

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Dadi Perlmutter to Leave Intel Early Next Year — The recent management shake-up at chip giant Intel has claimed its first high-profile casualty. Dadi “David” Perlmutter, a well-respected executive VP who had been a leading but unsuccessful contender in the race to succeed former CEO Paul Otellini …

More: eWeek and Silicon Valley Watcher

Bloomberg:

Apple Wins Patent-Infringement Trial Against Wi-Lan — Apple Inc. (AAPL) won a patent-infringement trial in which Wi-Lan Inc. was seeking $248 million from the iPhone maker over an invention for wireless technology used in mobile devices. — Apple didn't infringe a patent for technology used …

More: AppleInsider, wi-lan.com, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, CNET and SlashGear

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, DSLreports, Business Wire, Computerworld, BGR, CNET, Electronista 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.

More: Corning Incorporated, BGR, Digits, Reuters, Tech Trader Daily, iDownloadBlog.com, pocketnow.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Examiner, TechSpot, Android Beat, bizjournals, TheStreet.com, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Google, AllThingsD, Fast Company, Geeky Gadgets and SlashGear

Simon Sharwood / The Register:

HP to enter 3D printer market in mid-2014 says CEO Meg Whitman — Faster, cheaper, kit on the way for service providers — Canalys Channels Forum HP CEO Meg Whitman has told the Canalys Channels Forum in Bangkok that the company will enter the 3D printer market in the middle of 2014.

More: VentureBeat, Pocket-lint, Gigaom, WebProNews and bizjournals. Tweets: @dannysullivan

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: Techdirt, The Register, Examiner, Computerworld, Business Insider and The Verge

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, NYT Bits, Gizmodo and Yahoo! News. Tweets: @tmobile

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 Register, BGR, The Mozilla Blog, I4U News, Phones Review, BetaNews, pocketnow.com, Digital Trends, Unwired View, Pocket-lint, Telecompaper, PhoneArena, CNET, IntoMobile, Electronista and VentureBeat

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