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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Henri Lamiraux, Apple's top iOS Engineering Vice President, leaves company after 23 years — Henri Lamiraux, Apple's top Vice President of Engineering for the iOS iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system has left the company, according to a source and corroborated by his LinkedIn profile.
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Telegraph, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, PC Magazine, MacRumors, CNET, I4U News, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, The Next Web, App Advice, Rev2.org and iClarified. Tweets: @markgurman
| Tim Cook / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook pens op-ed urging Congress to pass bill prohibiting anti-gay discrimination — Tim Cook: Workplace Equality Is Good for Business — Long before I started work as the CEO of Apple, I became aware of a fundamental truth: People are much more willing to give of themselves …
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AppleInsider, Business Insider, The Verge, The Register, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, CNET, The Next Web, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, I4U News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac and The Huffington Post
Tweets: @danielpunkass, @m1ke_ellis, @markgurman, @markgurman and @anildash
| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
The Billion Dollar Valuation Club — Aileen Lee has a really good post up on TechCrunch, in which she analyzes the number of companies that have been started since 2003 that have gone on to be worth $1bn or more. — This is a very useful exercise in the VC business since it is these big wins …
Tweets: @mathewi
| Aileen Lee / TechCrunch: |
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Business Insider. Tweets: @hunterwalk, @fredwilson, @davemcclure, @sjacobsohn, @rabois, @semil, @rgwd67, @quinngarner, @jesskah, @amir, @shervin, @trengriffin, @om, @chamath and @carnage4life
| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: Under a New Chief, Yahoo Still Seeks Its Voice — In Google's early days, when employees were preparing to release a new project, they had to make a pilgrimage to see Marissa Mayer, employee No. 20, and the head of design and user interface. This was not fun.
Tweets: @samgustin and @om
| Washington Post: |
HealthCare.gov: How political fear was pitted against technical needs — In May 2010, two months after the Affordable Care Act squeaked through Congress, President Obama's top economic aides were getting worried. Larry Summers, director of the White House's National Economic Council …
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Polygon and Forbes. Tweets: @tcarmody, @jpodhoretz, @nprinskeep, @arimelber, @jodyavirgan and @digiphile
| Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter Confronts Obstacles Abroad on Members, Ads — Three-fourths of Twitter Inc. users are overseas. But only one-fourth of its revenue comes from non-U.S. advertisers. To Twitter, that is a “substantial opportunity” as it readies to go public as soon as this week.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Tweets: @joshconstine
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo's Mayer on the Talent Hunt for Tech Journalists (Even From AllThingsD!) — This weekend, a Yahoo recruiter tried to poach two of our fine AllThingsD reporters for what was described as a “new initiative within our Tech Vertical.” — According to the recruiter, who used LinkedIn for the outreach …
Tweets: @jbrodkin, @mattbuchanan, @fmanjoo, @thestalwart, @jackshafer, @alexia, @thestalwart, @binarybits and @dangillmor. See also Mediagazer
| Timothy B. Lee / The Switch: |
How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees — On November 3, 1988, 25 years ago this Sunday, people woke up to find the Internet had changed forever. The night before, someone had released a malevolent computer program on the fledgling computer network.
Tweets: @davemcclure, @alecjross, @damianogui and @odannyboy
| Ian Brown / Guardian: |
Will NSA revelations lead to the Balkanisation of the internet? — As countries move to protect their citizens' digital privacy, Ian Brown considers their options and the potential impact — There has been criticism of America's National Security Agency and Britain's GCHQ from Latin American nations …
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| Caroline Copley / Reuters: |
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| Businessweek: |
T-Mobile's Wacky Plan to Trash the Wireless Business Model — John Legere smiled, the kind of smile reserved for a man who knows he has already won and is just waiting to announce it. Legere, chief executive officer of T-Mobile US (TMUS), the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the country …
Tweets: @robpegoraro
| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Report: Windows Phone overtakes iOS in Italy and makes progress in Europe — There's good news for Microsoft's mobile efforts, as according to a latest report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech showing data for the three months to September 2013, Windows Phone has overtaken iOS in Italy and now makes …
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Kantar Worldpanel News …, BetaNews and TechCrunch
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Apparent hack of limo reservation service exposes 850k customers, including VIPs and celebs — Hackers Take Limo Service Firm for a Ride — A hacker break in at a U.S. company that brokers reservations for limousine and Town Car services nationwide has exposed the personal and financial information … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Samsung Extends Agreement to License Nokia Patents, Though Deal's Price Tag Yet to Be Determined — Nokia announced Monday that Samsung has extended for five years a patent agreement that was set to expire at the end of this year. — However, a clause in the deal means that the price …
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TechCrunch, ZDNet and Nokia
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