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October 26, 2013, 1:15 PM

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James Galbraith / Macworld:

Intel's Iris graphics boost 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro GPU performance by more than 50% — Benchmarks: Upgraded graphics boost new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro — The first of the new MacBook Pros unveiled on Tuesday are in the Macworld Lab, and the results show that the internal updates …

More: Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, I4U News, Electronista, MacRumors and AppleInsider

Thomas Gryta / Digits:

AT&T's Plan Revamp Signals the End of Voice Minutes — The days of worrying about minutes ticking away on your cell phone plan are nearly gone. — As of today, AT&T is dropping the availability of its old plans for new smartphone subscribers, and all of the remaining plans include unlimited calling …

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Qualcomm marketing exec Chandrasekher reassigned after calling Apple's 64-bit A7 a “gimmick” — After Apple 64-bit A7 criticism, Qualcomm exec reassigned — The 64-bit Apple A7 chip is now being used in all of Apple's marquee iOS products, including the newest iPhone and iPad.

More: Global Nerdy, Cult of Mac and Guardian

Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Amazon Publishing reportedly retreating in NYC. Thank (or blame) Barnes & Noble — When Amazon Publishing launched its general trade imprint in New York in 2011, the goal was to go head-to-head with the big traditional publishers here. The company announced in May of that year …

More: I4U News, Businessweek, CNET, New York Times and GeekWire. See also Mediagazer

Daniel Terdiman / CNET:

Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay? — This large structure, which is likely being built by Google, could be a floating data center. It is located on a barge just off Treasure Island, between San Francisco and Oakland. — (Credit: James Martin/CNET)

More: Softpedia News, 9to5Google, SiliconBeat, Mashable, ReadWrite, The Register, TIME, Valleywag, Gizmodo and New York Times

Sanjay Bhatt / The Seattle Times:

Amazon's plans for spherical building in downtown Seattle approved by city design panel — Amazon's bubble building gets OK from design panel — A city panel on Tuesday signed off on Amazon.com's design for a five-story office building formed by three intersecting spheres …

More: The Verge, SlashGear and Gizmodo

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

How Rizvi, Sacca purchased shares from Williams, other Twitter employees to claim major stake — Friendship Formed Foundation of 15.6% Stake in Social-Media Company — Evelyn M. Rusli … The largest stake in Twitter Inc. first came together seven years ago at a posh Caribbean resort.

Tweets: @wsjmarkets

Bloomberg:

DirecTV, Time Warner Cable Said to Consider Aereo-Type Services — DirecTV (DTV), Time Warner Cable (TWC) Inc. and Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR), taking a page from Aereo Inc., are considering capturing free broadcast signals from TV networks to avoid paying billions of dollars …

More: VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo, Deadline.com and SlashGear. See also Mediagazer

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: Forbes, App Advice, Softpedia News, SlashGear, BGR and The Next Web. Tweets: @pkafka

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.

More: The Verge, San Francisco Chronicle, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, App Advice, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Mercury News, The Register and bizjournals

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: TechCrunch, PhoneArena, Softpedia News and The Next Web

Tweets: @danprimack and @evelynrusli

AllThingsD:

Snapchat Is Mulling Another Huge Round at a $3.5 Billion Valuation

More: Business Insider, Gigaom, Mashable, Forbes, Betabeat and socalTECH.com

Tweets: @evelynrusli, @evelynrusli, @dannysullivan, @mdudas, @benparr and @evelynrusli

Russell Holly / Geek.com:

Galaxy Gear support coming to Samsung phones amid concern over 30% return rate — Samsung is planning a staged rollout of support for their Galaxy Gear watch to four of the most popular devices in the Galaxy family, as they promised earlier this month. — If you've been waiting …

More: Gigaom, SlashGear, Phones Review, Ars Technica, TechnoBuffalo, TechHive, eWeek, Electronista, Gotta Be Mobile, Yahoo! News and Droid Life

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: Gigaom and SlashGear. Tweets: @snipeyhead

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Some Power Users Are Unhappy With Lost Features in the New iWork

More: Betalogue, CNET and iPhone Hacks

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