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November 4, 2013, 6:40 PM

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Boyd Erman / Globe and Mail:

BlackBerry-Fairfax takeover dies; Thorsten Heins out — BlackBerry Ltd. is abandoning a plan to find a buyer and will instead raise $1-billion of new funds and replace its chief executive and some directors, sources said. — The Waterloo, Ontario-based smartphone company had spent the past …

Reuters:

New BlackBerry boss John Chen out to prove skeptics wrong — (Reuters) - John Chen, the man charged with breathing life into struggling BlackBerry Ltd, says he has no intention of killing the money-losing BlackBerry handset as he looks to turn around the smartphone maker.

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Steven M. Davidoff / DealBook:

What a Big Investment Says About BlackBerry's Endgame

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Ousted BlackBerry CEO Had $56 Million Golden Parachute — But It May Not Have Deployed

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

BlackBerry Takes $1B Investment From Fairfax, Others, Replaces CEO Thorsten Heins

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Deborah Kan / Wall Street Journal:

Google's Eric Schmidt Lambasts NSA Over Spying — On a recent visit to Hong Kong, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt spoke to Deborah Kan about allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency spied on the company's data centers, censorship in China, and the country he wants to visit next.

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How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data — The Washington Post reported last Wednesday that the National Security Agency has been tapping into the private links that connect Google and Yahoo data centers around the world. Today we offer additional background …

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Brendan Sasso / The Hill:

NSA chief likely to lose cyber war powers — Senior military officials are leaning toward removing the National Security Agency director's authority over U.S. Cyber Command, according to a former high-ranking administration official familiar with internal discussions.

More: The Verge. Tweets: @20committee

Ian Brown / Guardian:

Will NSA revelations lead to the Balkanisation of the internet?

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

We play with the Steam Machine, Valve's game console of the future — Can the company behind ‘Half-Life’ build hardware worthy of the TV? — Valve Corporation, the video game developer responsible for Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress , and the digital distribution platform Steam …

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Daniel Rubino / Windows Phone Central:

Revealed - The Nokia Lumia 929, Verizon's 5 inch 1080P Windows Phone — Although Nokia had a lot to announce a few weeks ago in Abu Dhabi, one of those devices not mentioned was the Nokia Lumia 929, destined for Verizon. That device is said to be in carrier testing right …

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nokia preparing an 8-inch Lumia tablet for early next year

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IBM Claims Twitter Infringes On At Least 3 Of Its Patents, According To Twitter's Latest S-1 Update — As Twitter embarks on its initial public offering roadshow, the company has issued another update to its S-1 today with a curveball. IBM has recently issued a letter to Twitter alleging …

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Tweets: @fosspatents and @tim

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Twitter revises IPO price; pegs $23-25 per share

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Reuters:

Twitter to close IPO books early on strong demand -sources

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple to build new manufacturing facility in Arizona with solar-power, will create 2000+ jobs — The State of Arizona today announced that Apple is planning to build a new manufacturing facility in the city of Mesa, Arizona. The facility will create 700 jobs for manufacturing …

More: GT Advanced Technologies, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, AppleInsider, The Verge, Engadget, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Gigaom, AllThingsD, iPhone in Canada Blog, myFOXphoenix.com, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista and iClarified. Tweets: @azchamber

Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

Nexus 5 review: an excellent flagship smartphone if Google can fix its major camera issues — Nexus 5 review — The ultimate Google Phone? — In this review of the Nexus 5, I will attempt to answer one simple question: is Google capable of making a flagship, best-in-class smartphone it can sell for $349 off-contract?

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Tweets: @reckless and @markgurman

Thanks:@sidharthdassani

Marvin Ammori / Wired:

We're About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It — Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn't set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users …

Woody Leonhard / InfoWorld:

OS X Mavericks upgrade destroys data, reports Western Digital — Issues extend to external hard drives, as well as eSATA- or Thunderbolt-based peripherals from other vendors — Wetern Digital sent an email to its registered customers over the weekend, warning them not to use …

More: iMore and Cult of Mac

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

iPad Air Adoption 5X That Of iPad 4 After Opening Weekend, Says Fiksu — Nokia, Samsung Extend Their Secretive Patent Deal Another 5 Years, Avoiding Yet Another Mobile Patent Suit, Shoring Up For Others? — Apple may indeed have attracted a much broader audience of upgraders …

Phil Nickinson / Android Central:

‘Glass Guides’ to educate new Explorers over Hangouts — In-person-pickups of Google Glass are no longer necessary, but Google still wants to make sure you understand the $1,500 device — The still-relatively exclusive Google Glass club is set to grow by as much as 300 percent in the days and weeks ahead …

More: Engadget, PC Magazine, Gotta Be MobileGotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, whatmobile.net, 9to5Google and Gizmodo

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Amazon does FAA victory lap, offers 1-day Kindle discounts — Amazon was one of the winners in the FAA's decision last week to allow electronic gadgets to be used during all phases of flight. Kindle users will be able to continue reading books during takeoff and landing …

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