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October 25, 2013, 9:55 PM
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AllThingsD:
Snapchat Is Mulling Another Huge Round at a $3.5 Billion Valuation  —  Only a few months after closing a Series B round of $60 million that valued the ephemeral messaging company at $800 million, Snapchat has been in talks for another funding that values it at up to $3.6 billion, according to sources close to the situation.
Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits:
Snapchat looking to raise up to $200M, declined more than $1B bid by Facebook  —  Snapchat Mulls Raising Money at $3 to $4 Billion Valuation  —  Just months after raising $60 million at a $800 million valuation, mobile messaging service Snapchat is mulling an even bigger fundraising round.
More: The Next Web.  Tweets: @evelynrusli
Peter Cohen / iMore:
Apple's new Mac iWork apps: A big step back in workflow automation  —  On Tuesday evening Apple posted updates to its iWork apps for Mac - Pages, Keynote and Numbers.  Featured during Apple's iPad and Mac event in San Francisco, the new versions of iWork apps sport new features …
More: SlashGear
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Lots Of Hollywood Interest In Making Bilton's Twitter Book A Movie  —  Interest is swirling at Sony and several other major Hollywood studios around Nick Bilton's book “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal”, TechCrunch has learned.
iFixit:
MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Late 2013 Teardown  —  We took apart the new 15" Retina MacBook Pro with the hopes that Apple made it more repair-friendly than the debut Mid 2012 model.  Unfortunately, things didn't really work out in our favor; in fact, they took a turn for the (slightly) worse.
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.
Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:
Facebook Won't Launch Auto-Play Video Ads This Year  —  If you're an advertiser waiting to hand Facebook a bag of cash to start running video ads on the social network in time for the holidays, it sounds like you're out of luck.  —  Sources tell AllThingsD that Facebook has been advising …
More: BGR and The Next Web.  Tweets: @pkafka
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Comcast's latest bundle, Internet Plus, still requires you to pay for TV to receive HBO  —  Dear Internet: You Still Can't Get HBO Without Paying for Cable  —  Lots of people who read sites like this site love the idea of paying for HBO without paying for cable.
Vinay Shet / Google Online Security Blog:
Google makes CAPTCHAs consider users' engagement in assessing whether they're human  —  reCAPTCHA just got easier (but only if you're human)  —  For over a decade, CAPTCHAs have used visual puzzles to help webmasters keep automated software from engaging in abusive activities on their sites.
Nancy Gohring / CITEworld:
Salesforce to shut down Do.com task management service  —  Do.com, Salesforce.com's task management service, said today that it plans to shut down in January.  —  The company sent emails to users today letting them know that the service will be discontinued on January 31.  It didn't say why.
More: The Next Web and ZDNet
Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Must Face Group Antitrust Hiring Lawsuit  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc. (GOOG) and two other Silicon Valley companies must face a group lawsuit representing more than 64,000 technical employees claiming their incomes were held down by the companies' agreements not to recruit one another's workers.
Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:
The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It  —  The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10.  It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a leaderless collection of volunteers …
Robert McMillan / Wired:
World's First Bitcoin ATM Set to Go Live Tuesday  —  Three high school buddies from a tiny Canadian town say that they will flip the switch on the world's first bitcoin ATM next week.  It will operate near the entrance of a downtown Vancouver coffee house.  —  Built by a Nevada company …
More: Gigaom.  Thanks:@_trendspotter

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CNN:
Sources: Pete Hegseth pushed for two F-15 crew members rescued from Iran to join a 60 Minutes story; Bari Weiss lobbied Hegseth to give CBS exclusive access

New York Times:
The Cable Center sells its 75K-square-foot Denver headquarters for $19.5M, as cord-cutting and media consolidation cause financial strain for the nonprofit

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