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Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:

Google in talks to begin mass production of smartwatch, device integrated with Google Now — Google Nears Smartwatch Launch — Company In Talks With Asian Suppliers for Mass Production — TAIPEI—Google Inc.'s smartwatch is in late-stage development and the company is in talks …

The Official Motorola Blog:

Motorola's Project Ara: A free, open hardware platform for creating modular smartphones — Goodbye Sticky. Hello Ara. — Over the last six months, our MAKEwithMOTO team took Sticky, a truck wrapped entirely in velcro and filled with rooted, hackable Motorola smartphones …

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Motorola reveals ambitious plan to build modular smartphones

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Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:

BlackBerry Met With Facebook Last Week on Potential Bid — BlackBerry Ltd. executives flew to California to meet with Facebook Inc. last week to gauge its interest in a potential bid for the struggling smartphone-maker, according to people familiar with the matter.

More: AllFacebook, Business Insider, ZDNet, BGR, The Verge, Tech Trader Daily, Gigaom, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, CrackBerry.com and TechnoBuffalo

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Google adds location sharing, animated GIFs to Hangouts, integrates SMS — Today during its “A Morning with Google+” event, Google announced some updates for its Google+ service on top of sharing some improvements to Hangouts. Perhaps the biggest new feature that was announced during …

More: Google, Mercury News, The Technology Chronicles, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Verge, Softpedia News, WebProNews and Electronista

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Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Google+ gets new backup, auto-enhance, and HDR filters to help you become a better storyteller

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, Engadget, VentureBeat, Engadget, Google and Gotta Be Mobile

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Google+ Hits 300 Million Active Monthly “In-Stream” Users, 540 Million Across Google

More: Reuters, The Next Web and 9to5Google

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Can Google dominate live video with Hangouts on Air?

More: 9to5Google

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

Exclusive: Obama orders curbs on NSA spying on U.N. headquarters — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama recently ordered the National Security Agency to curtail eavesdropping on the United Nations headquarters in New York as part of a review of U.S. electronic surveillance, according to a U.S. official familiar with the decision.

More: Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @stephdujarric

Reuters:

Brazil to insist on local Internet data storage after U.S. spying

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Adobe Breach Impacted At Least 38 Million Users — The recent data breach at Adobe that exposed user account information and prompted a flurry of password reset emails impacted at least 38 million users, the company now says. It also appears that the already massive source code leak at Adobe …

More: GeekWire, PC World, Engadget, The Verge, ZDNet, Help Net Security, Pocket-lint, CNET, Softpedia News and The Next Web

Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

Samsung is pulling another Amazon on Android, but this is even bigger — As much as Google likes and touts that Android is open, that freedom may come with the cost of some control over the platform. Amazon may have started the first truly successful “fork” of Android, but Samsung is going after the whole place setting.

More: Businessweek, Gigaom Search and Beyond Search

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nokia Lumia sales hit record 8.8 million in Q3, North America doubles — Nokia has once again managed to improve its Lumia sales figures worldwide. The latest Q3 earnings show another quarterly improvement, up to 8.8 million in the latest quarter. That's an increase on the record high …

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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Nokia Reports Net Sales Of €5.66B, €118M Profit, And 8.8M Lumias Sold In Q3

More: Gigaom, Computerworld, Bloomberg, MobileBurn.com, Reuters and CNET. Thanks:@mjburnsy

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter Apps For iOS, Android And Web Get In-Stream Video And Image Previews — Twitter today shipped an update that adds in-stream video and image previews to the main feed in its iOS, Android and web apps. Previously you would have to tap on links for images via Twitter or video service Vine.

More: Twitter, New York Times, The Verge, AllThingsD, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, 9to5Google, CNET, Engadget, Business Insider and Gizmodo. Tweets: @panzer. See also Mediagazer

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Dell officially goes private under founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners — The company has promised a renewed focus on tablets — The long delayed and contested buyout of Dell Computers by its founder, Michael Dell, and the private equity firm Silverlake, has finally wrapped up today.

More: Business Wire, InfoWorld, eWeek, Computerworld, New York Times, Engadget, ZDNet, AllThingsD, Forbes, SlashGear and Softpedia News

Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

Warily, Schools Watch Students on the Internet — SAN FRANCISCO — For years, a school principal's job was to make sure students were not creating a ruckus in the hallways or smoking in the bathroom. Vigilance ended at the schoolhouse gates. — Now, as students complain …

More: Betabeat. Tweets: @dangillmor, @kelseylsheehy and @pkedrosky

Lance Whitney / CNET:

Samsung shipped more phones than Nokia, Apple, LG combined — Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 helped it win 29 percent of the mobile phone market. — (Credit: CNET) — Samsung shipped a record 120.1 million phone phones last quarter, beating Nokia, Apple, and LG combined, Strategy Analytics said on Tuesday.

More: IDC, Strategy Analytics, Computerworld, The Register, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Digits, ZDNet, NYT Bits, I4U News, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat and CNET. Tweets: @cnet

Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Amazon rolls out Kindle MatchBook: About 75k print books bundled with discounted ebooks — Amazon officially launched Kindle MatchBook, its previously announced program that lets publishers and authors bundle print books with discounted digital editions, on Tuesday.

More: Amazon.com, Engadget, VentureBeat, PC World, The Next Web, CNET, BGR, BetaNews, GeekWire, LAPTOP Magazine, ReadWrite, Gizmodo, iPhone and TekRevue. Tweets: @laurahazardowen. See also Mediagazer

Dr. Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate:

Galaxy Round's curved display reduces reflections for improved readability and image quality — Curved and Flexible Smartphone Display Technology Shoot-Out Samsung Galaxy Round — Introduction A new generation of curved displays for Smartphones and TVs has just been launched.

More: BGR, CNET, AndroidGuys, ExtremeTech, Gizmodo, TechSpot, GSMArena Blog and PhoneArena

Wall Street Journal:

Aereo faces challenge reducing cost of power for subscriber antennas — Electricity Use Impedes Aereo's March — Streaming-Video Service Has Other Challenges Besides Broadcasters' Lawsuits — Shalini Ramachandran — AMOL SHARMA … Aereo Inc.'s upstart TV streaming service …

More: Betabeat and Gigaom. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

To Assimilate SMS, Facebook's Android Messenger Tries Letting You Reach Non-Friends By Phone Number — Facebook wants to be your one and only messaging app, so it's asking for your phone number. Today it starts testing a version of Messenger for Android that lets you message non-friends by phone number.

More: Facebook, Inside Facebook, Business Insider, AllFacebook, ZDNet, CNET and AllThingsD. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Steven Levy / Wired:

Google Channels Pixar to Change Storytelling as We Know It — An early concept drawing for Windy Day by Japanese illustrator Tadahiro Uesugi, the Annie Award-winning production designer of Coraline. — A painted version of the Tadahiro sketch. — A character sketch from animation director …

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch and The Next Web

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