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October 24, 2013, 5:35 PM

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter To Offer 70M Shares Priced At $17-$20 Per Share To Raise Up To $1.4B In IPO — Twitter will offer 70 million shares in its initial public offering, and will price them at $17-$20 per share, according to an amended S-1 filing. Twitter's IPO pricing range was rumored to drop today …

More: Bloomberg, VentureBeat, BGR, CNNMoney.com, CNET, Reuters, The Verge, Digits, The Next Web, PC World, Tech Trader Daily, BuzzFeed, Trends and Reuters

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DealBook:

Twitter said to price IPO on November 6

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Prices Its IPO at a Conservative $11 Billion

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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Crushes FQ1 Expectations With Revenue of $18.5B, EPS Of $0.62, $400M In Surface Top Line — Microsoft reported its fiscal first quarter results today, with revenue of $18.53 billion and earnings per share of $0.62. Analysts had expected the first quarter of Microsoft's fiscal 2014 …

More: The Verge, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, GeekWire, ZDNet, AllThingsD, BGR, VentureBeat, Business Insider, BBC and WebProNews. Tweets: @carnage4life. Thanks:@pickavet

Microsoft:

Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion — Robust enterprise sales and improving consumer demand drive broad-based growth. — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $18.53 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2013. Gross margin, operating income …

Tweets: @anxboxdude

Min-Jeong Lee / Digits:

Patent Filing Shows Samsung Preps Electronic Eyewear — Samsung Electronics Co. appears to be creating a Google Glass of its own. — A design patent registered with Korean authorities in October shows an electronic device in the form of spectacles. It has been categorized as a type of “sports glasses.”

More: Ars Technica, Engadget, BGR, Bloomberg, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, ValueWalk, The Next Web, Geeky Gadgets, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine, I4U News, Phandroid, SlashGear, 9to5Google, IntoMobile and AndroidGuys

James Ball / Guardian:

NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders — • Agency given more than 200 numbers by government official — • NSA encourages departments to share their ‘Rolodexes’ — • Surveillance produced ‘little intelligence’, memo acknowledges — The National Security Agency monitored …

More: Examiner, Techdirt, ZDNet and CNET

Tweets: @tconnellyrte, @jamesrbuk, @jamesrbuk and @jamesrbuk

Spiegel Online:

Merkel Calls Obama Over Suspicions US Tapped Her Mobile Phone

More: Ars Technica, The Daily Caller and The Switch. Tweets: @tonyromm

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Amazon reports quarterly net loss of $41M, sales above $17B, exceeding expectations — Amazon just posted another unprofitable quarter. But the company did manage to beat Wall Street's expectations. — The company reported a quarterly net loss of $41 million, or 9 cents per share.

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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Amazon's set-top box runs into further delays

More: CNET, Wired, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, WebProNews and T3 News. See also Mediagazer

Chitika Online Advertising Network:

OS X Mavericks Adoption Reaches 5.5% 24 Hours Following Public Release — As part of its event on October 22, 2013, Apple announced the public release of OS X Mavericks - the latest edition of Apple's desktop operating system. While this announcement was largely expected by the tech press at large …

More: TechCrunch, AppleInsider, TUAW, Macworld, ScreenwerkScreenwerk, CNET, The Next Web, ValueWalk, Cult of Mac and SlashGear

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Samsung fined $340,000 for faking online comments — After being caught paying for false praise and negative comments about competitors, Samsung has been fined just over $340,000. The issue first arose internationally in April, when Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) announced it was opening an investigation into the allegations.

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Mac App Store bug allows iWork trial users to update the entire suite for free (Update: Aperture, too) — Users who have previously downloaded the free 30-day iWork trial and kept it on their systems found themselves able to update to the latest version of Apple's productivity suite …

More: The Verge, MacTrast, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, CNET, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, Geek.com, Gizmodo UK and Softpedia News

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Instagram previews how ads will look in its apps, will push a one-time sample ad to US users in the next week — Instagram today revealed how ads will look like on the social network when they finally come to the photo-sharing app. The Facebook-owned company is treading carefully …

More: TechCrunch, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook, Gigaom, Betabeat, Quartz, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, Gizmodo, CNET, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Verge, Phandroid, WebProNews, TechHive and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @nytimesbits

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Cover Is An Android-Only Lockscreen That Shows Apps When You Need Them — You have more apps than you know what to do with, but Cover could fix that. It's an Android lockscreen replacement launching (invite-only) today that adapts to show your top productivity apps at work …

More: Cover, Betabeat, BGR, Gizmodo, CNET, AllThingsD, SlashGear and Droid Life. Thanks:@anthonyha

Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:

Blackberry's Android BBM app drawing lots of suspicious 5-star ratings — Blackberry's standalone BBM messaging app debuted on Android yesterday, and it has already received more than 150,000 reviews on the Google Play Store. However, as first pointed out on Twitter by Matt Baxter-Reynolds …

More: Terence Eden's Blog, Examiner, TechnoBuffalo, ValueWalk, Gizmodo UK, Gizmodo and Electronista. Tweets: @mbrit

Nick Statt / CNET:

Zynga beats Wall Street estimates, hires Clive Downie as COO, user base continues to crumble — Zynga beats Wall Street estimates, but user base continues to crumble — The Farmville creator's rough ride isn't over. — Social gaming company Zynga just released third quarter earnings …

More: Business Insider, VentureBeat, Inside Mobile Apps, VatorNews, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and Bloomberg

Alex Pham / Billboard:

YouTube preparing a $10/month premium on-demand music service, may come this year — YouTube Close to Launching Subscription Music Service (Breaking) — YouTube is preparing a premium on-demand music service — akin to a Spotify, but with video — to launch later this year, according to several sources familiar with the plans.

More: Digital Trends, CNET, The Atlantic Wire, Marketing Land, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Evolver.fm, TechnoBuffalo, Brave New World, Droid Life, New York Times, Ubergizmo, hypebot, Marketing Pilgrim and Gigaom. See also Mediagazer

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

CIRP Research: iPad 2 accounted for 22% of the iPads sold in the US during Q3 2013 — Why Is Apple Still Selling the iPad 2? Because It Can. — Next month, Apple will begin selling two next-generation iPads — the iPad Air and a new and mightier iPad mini, yet it will continue to sell the iPad 2 …

More: CNET and iDownloadBlog.com

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Why would anyone buy an iPad 2 now?

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Business Insider and TUAW

Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:

New banner ads push actual Google results to bottom 12% of the screen — Actual search results are in the un-grayed area. — Google has started adding banner ads to its search result pages, SearchEngineLand reported Wednesday. And they're not just skinny banner ads abutting the top edge of a page …

More: ScreenwerkScreenwerk, Network World, Computerworld, TorrentFreak, The Register, the Econsultancy blog, Search Engine Land and Business Insider

Lucian Constantin / PC World:

Flash Player now sandboxed under Safari on Mac OS X — Adobe has worked with Apple to sandbox Flash Player under Safari in Mac OS X, restricting the ability of attackers to exploit any vulnerabilities they might find in the browser plug-in. — “With this week's release of Safari in OS X Mavericks …

More: Adobe Secure Software …, The Register, Engadget, Digital Trends, Threatpost, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, I4U News, 9to5Mac, Geeky Gadgets, Cult of Mac and whatmobile.net

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Vine Update Lets Users Edit Videos, Save Multiple Drafts — Vine, Twitter's six-second looping video app, has just released an update to the app that brings two new big features to the video sharing platform: Sessions and Time Travel. — Time Travel essentially lets you edit videos …

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Marketing Land, PC World, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, Gigaom, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, MacRumors, GeekWire, TechHive, 9to5Google, Cult of Mac, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, Wired, The Next Web, IntoMobile, The Verge and WebProNews. Tweets: @jbruin. Thanks:@dicebourbon

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Twitter hires Vivian Schiller of NBC News to run its news partnerships unit — As it prepares to go public later this month in a stock offering that could be worth as much as $15 billion, a big part of Twitter's future rests on partnerships with media outlets — and specifically TV networks.

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, CNNMoney.com, TechCrunch, ValueWalk and Poynter. See also Mediagazer

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Tesla Motors Hires Doug Field, Apple's VP of Mac Hardware Engineering, to Lead New Vehicle Development — Upstart automobile manufacturer Tesla Motors has announced the hiring of Doug Field, former vice president of Mac Hardware Engineering, to lead its development of new vehicles.

More: Tesla Motors, 9to5Mac, Electrek, TechCrunch, CNET, ZDNet, AllThingsD, iLounge and SlashGear

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