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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

IPad Air Has Spendier Display, Costs Less to Make Than Earlier Models — There's a new iPad in town, and that means that folks at the research firm IHS are once again doing what they do best: Taking it apart for a look inside. — In the latest of its teardown analysis reports obtained by AllThingsD …

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple's iPad Air Adopts IGZO Technology for Thinner, Lower-Power Displays — Apple's new iPad Air marks a significant technological step forward for the company, improving performance while reducing the device's volume and weight by over 25%. Much of the size and weight savings have been enabled …

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Brooke Crothers / CNET:

iPad Air topped by Kindle Fire HDX in display quality test

More: DisplayMate, Examiner, AppleInsider, PadGadget, T3 News, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog and iDownloadBlog.com

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Everpix is shutting down after acquisition offers from Path and others fall through. Here's how it died. — Out of the picture: why the world's best photo startup is going out of business — Everpix was great. This is how it died. — One day last month, the seven employees …

More: Everpix Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, SiliconBeat, @andrewchen, Daring Fireball, The Next Web, Electronista, SlashGear and TUAW

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @startupljackson, @dancounsell, @caseynewton, @siracusa, @hamburger, @caseynewton and @ashleymayer

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple details how it handles customer data, discloses government information request stats — In light of the recent reporting in regards to the NSA and governments across the world and their connection to the data that technology companies hold on their customers, Apple has published …

More: The Next Web, FOSS Patents, GeekWire, iMore, VentureBeat, BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, MacRumors, BGR, Gizmodo, CNET, ZDNet, The Verge, AppleInsider, Engadget, Mashable, Electronista and iLounge

Tweets: @tim, @tim, @cwarzel, @mikeisaac and @insanely_great

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple: “Our Business Does Not Depend On Collecting Personal Data” — Apple on Tuesday published a formal report on federal government data requests and in so doing became the first tech company to disclose such inquiries by both account and device. — Foremost, the document explains Apple's philosophy on customer privacy.

Tweets: @davewiner

Om Malik / Gigaom:

To live and die in public: That's Twitter — My affair with Twitter, the idea, began over seven years ago. — It was at a party, a few blocks from where I live and work — San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. I was hanging outside, sucking on a stogie, and chatting with Twitter's forgotten co-creator, Noah Glass.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @jasonhiner and @narendra

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

In “Hatching Twitter,” a Billion-Dollar Company That Almost Wasn't

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

The Three Reasons Twitter Didn't Sell To Facebook

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Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Responding to MacKenzie Bezos's One-Star Slapdown — One of the gratifying and terrifying things about writing a book in 2013 is that anyone can immediately publish their review of it. Yesterday, a reader of my book, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, did just that.

More: AllThingsD, New York Times, The Next Web, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Business Insider, CNET, Beyond Search and SiliconBeat

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @pkafka

iFixit:

Nexus 5 Teardown — KitKats, snapdragons, unlocked? Google is making us feel like we've got the golden ticket, as we head into Willy Wonka's—er, the Nexus 5. Will Google's latest smartphone be a sweet treat? Or will we be having nightmares of green-haired Oompa Loompas mocking us in rhyme?

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Globe and Mail:

Lenovo pursued BlackBerry bid, but Ottawa rejected idea — OTTAWA and TORONTO — The Globe and Mail — Beijing-based computer manufacturer Lenovo Group Ltd. actively considered a bid for BlackBerry Ltd., but the Canadian government told the smartphone company it would not accept …

More: eWeek, Business Insider, BGR, ZDNet, The Verge, CrackBerry.com, PhoneArena, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, WebProNews, Pocket-lint, Ubergizmo, Daring Fireball, BerryReview and Telecom Trends

The Independent:

Revealed: Britain's ‘secret listening post in the heart of Berlin’ — Claims that GCHQ has maintained spying operations even after US pulled out — Concerns were raised tonight that Britain operates a top-secret listening post from its Berlin embassy to eavesdrop on the seat of German power.

More: Softpedia News. Tweets: @nigelpmorris

L'Espresso:

Cyprus: the home of British/American Internet surveillance in the Middle East

Tweets: @csoghoian and @csoghoian

Brad Molen / Engadget:

LG's G Flex actually flexes (video) — We've known for a while that LG's upcoming G Flex smartphone features a pretty noticeable arc from top to bottom, but thanks to a source who's spent some time with the device, we now know that the phone is more aptly named than we first suspected.

More: Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, SlashGear, Phandroid, Examiner, iPhone Hacks and Android Beat

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Introduced at iPhone 5s event, M7-integrated Nike+ Move fitness app launches — Introduced by Apple at the September 10 iPhone 5s event, Nike has launched its Nike+ Move application for the iPhone 5s. The app was originally scheduled to arrive on November 6th alongside the new FuelBand SE hardware …

More: The Next Web, MacRumors, Engadget, AppleInsider, The Verge, TechHive, VentureBeat, CNET, Digital Trends, Softpedia News, Gigaom, whatmobile.net, MacDailyNews, Laughing Squid, I4U News, PC Magazine, Phones Review and Gizmodo. Tweets: @pschiller. Thanks:@markgurman

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Justin Bieber invests $1.1m in teen-focused social network “Shots Of Me”, launching this week — Exclusive: Justin Bieber invests in new social network — Justin Bieber backs new teen-focused platform from founders of RockLive games. — FORTUNE — A new teen-focused social …

More: CNET, Digital Trends, ABC News, Soshable, The Verge, SiliconBeat, Examiner, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, hypebot and Valleywag

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Verizon announces its own 7-inch Android tablet, the first product in the ‘Ellipsis family’ — Verizon Wireless is now selling its very own tablet branded under its name. Following a series of leaks, the carrier announced the Ellipsis 7 tablet this morning.

More: Verizon Wireless, CNET, Gigaom, Light Reading, Phandroid, Droid Life, pocketnow.com, Unwired View and Electronista

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

AWS launches GPU instances, mobile app developer tools — Summary: Amazon Web Services and Nvidia are launching cloud services designed to move GPUs beyond high performance computing to SaaS companies. — Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched a new type of instance using Nvidia Grid …

More: Amazon.com, The Mozilla Blog, Amazon.com, VentureBeat, GeekWire, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Marketwired, WebProNews, WebProNews, TechCrunch and Gigaom

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Target Offering $200 Gift Card for iPad Trade-in, Including First Generation — From November 3 to November 9, Target is running an in-store promotion for its trade-in program that provides customers with a gift card worth at least $200 for any iPad, including low value first-generation models. iPads …

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Sync, BitTorrent's Server-Less Dropbox Competitor, Hits 1M Active Users, Now Available As An API — Sync, a file synchronization service from P2P platform BitTorrent that works as a kind of server-less Dropbox, has picked up some good traction since launching earlier this year …

More: The Official BitTorrent Blog, Engadget, TorrentFreak, Guardian, BetaNews, TechHive, The Next Web, Forbes, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends and VentureBeat

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Google Search iOS app gets massive update w/ ‘OK Google’ handsfree voice search, notifications, reminders, much more — The Google Search iOS app has received a huge update today that brings a number of new features including the ability to activate voice search handsfree.

More: Inside Search, Engadget, The Next Web, CNET, Search Engine Land, AppleInsider, Gigaom, Gizmodo, iMore, MacRumors, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup.com, WebProNews, SlashGear and TUAW

Chico Harlan / Washington Post:

South Korea is stuck with Internet Explorer for online shopping because of security law — Jean Chung/Bloomberg - Video-game enthusiasts play games at Lion Internet Cafe in Seoul, South Korea. Despite its tech savvy, South Korea depends on Internet Explorer, a browser that has lost market share elsewhere.

More: ZDNet

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