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October 27, 2013, 6:10 AM

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week's Apple Event Introducing the iPad Air and Retina iPad Mini — The Show Itself — There is a certain sameness to almost every Apple event. A pattern, a formula, a structure, a rhythm and pacing. Does this make them boring?

More: iMore and the rajam report. Tweets: @mattlynley, @panzer and @pbyrne

Cory Scott / Official LinkedIn Blog:

LinkedIn explains security features behind Intro, its controversial email routing product — The Facts about LinkedIn Intro — This blog post is intended to provide more information and address inaccurate assertions that have been made as a result of a product we launched on Wednesday called LinkedIn Intro.

More: The Next Web, The State of Security, WebProNews and Forbes

Tweets: @digiphile and @jacobian

Jim Newell / Guardian:

Thousands gather in Washington for anti-NSA ‘Stop Watching Us’ rally — Statement from whistleblower Edward Snowden read to crowd featuring groups from left and right of political spectrum — Thousands gathered by the Capitol reflection pool in Washington on Saturday to march, chant …

More: Firedoglake, The Hill, Associated Press, The Huffington Post, CNET, RT, PC World, SlashGear, The Raw Story and I4U News

Tweets: @stopwatchingus and @sinak

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

John McCrank / Reuters:

Exclusive: Aiming to avoid Facebook chaos, NYSE runs Twitter IPO test — (Reuters) - The New York Stock Exchange on Saturday did a test run of Twitter's highly anticipated market debut, as it seeks to avoid the types of problems that plagued Facebook's initial public offering on rival Nasdaq.

More: The Atlantic Wire

Joel Gascoigne / Buffer Open:

Buffer restores all sharing services after hacking incident — Buffer has been hacked - here is what's going on — Update: All posting should be working normally again, read more below! — I wanted to post a quick update and apologize for the awful experience we've caused many of you on your weekend.

More: The Next Web and Geek News Central. Tweets: @buffer and @buffer

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

The FTC is set to investigate rules for the internet of things — Next month the Federal Trade Commission will meet to discuss how it plans to regulate the internet of things, and how connected devices share consumer data. There are two issues at play here, one being the privacy of consumer data …

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 …

More: SlashGear

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Next on Deck for Snapchat and Pinterest: Some Sales Help? — Earlier this week, AllThingsD broke the news of two major fundings of a pair of hot startups: Scrapbooking service Pinterest and messaging service Snapchat. — Pinterest's round of $225 million at a $3.8 billion valuation …

More: Dalton Caldwell and PandoDaily

Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits:

Snapchat looking to raise up to $200M, declined more than $1B bid by Facebook

More: TechCrunch, Mashable, VatorNews, Business Insider, PhoneArena, Gigaom, Softpedia News, The Next Web, AllThingsD, Forbes and Betabeat

Tweets: @danprimack and @evelynrusli

John Lilly / Medium:

Free software strengthens Apple's business - systems, while disturbing Microsoft's - software — Cups of Water … My partner Reid has a fun metaphor he uses when he's describing how companies think about their core strategies (which don't change very much).

Tweets: @chrisyeh and @monkbent

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: SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Global Nerdy and Cult of Mac

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: GeekWire, AllThingsD, TechSpot, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, The Verge, SlashGear and Gizmodo

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