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October 25, 2013, 10:10 AM

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Reuters:
Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles  —  (Reuters) - As a diplomatic row rages between the United States and Europe over spying accusations, state-backed Deutsche Telekom wants German communications companies to cooperate to shield local internet traffic from foreign intelligence services.
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 …
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 …
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
Samsung announces $9.56 billion profit in latest record-breaking quarter  —  Samsung was predicting record revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2013, and as usual it didn't disappoint.  The company has announced 59.08 trillion won (approximately $55.59 billion) in revenue …
New York Times:
Why the Government Never Gets Tech Right  —  MILLIONS of Americans negotiating America's health care system know all too well what the waiting room of a doctor's office looks like.  Now, thanks to HealthCare.gov, they know what a “virtual waiting room” looks like, too.
Carmel DeAmicis / PandoDaily:
Uh oh, Los Angeles School District's $30 million iPad program falls flat  —  Last week, I wrote about how one-to-one tablet programs in Missouri and Texas K-12 schools had hit some road bumps.  In North Carolina when 73,000 Amplify tablets arrived — from Robert Murdoch's edtech company …
More: 9to5Mac and AppleInsiderTweets: @pandodaily
J. Glenn Künzler / MacTrast:
The Truth About ‘Free’ Mac App Store Software Upgrades in OS X Mavericks  —  There have been a number of reports lately revealing that OS X Mavericks seems to be allowing users to “upgrade illegal or trial version” Apple software obtained outside the Mac App Store.
David Chernicoff / ZDNet:
Seagate storage technology could redefine datacenter architecture  —  Summary: Seagate takes first steps towards a distributed hardware infrastructure with their Kinetic Open Storage Platform.  —  The new Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Platform allows for the removal of the dedicated storage tier …
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 …

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