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November 6, 2013, 12:25 AM

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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 …

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

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.

More: ZDNet. Tweets: @edwardtufte and @davewiner

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Apple Employs ‘Warrant Canary’ To Warn Users Of Future Compliance With Patriot Act Info Requests — The big exception most take to the section is that it provides a much lower threshold for data gathering than a ‘probable cause’ warrant. Under Section 215, the government could force companies like Apple …

More: Ars Technica and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @cocoaphony and @ztf

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 …

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Bigger than Google Fiber: LA plans citywide gigabit for homes and businesses — Free broadband for all, and gigabit for those who can afford it. Los Angeles is about to unleash one of the most ambitious city-led broadband projects to date, with the goal of bringing fiber to all of its 3.5 million residents and all businesses.

More: The Next Web, Gigaom, Delimiter, The Verge and Engadget

Nadia Damouni / Reuters:

Exclusive: Microsoft narrows CEO shortlist; Mulally, Elop make the cut — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has narrowed its list of external candidates to replace Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to about five people, including Ford Motor Co chief Alan Mulally and former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, according to sources familiar with the matter.

More: GeekWire, The Verge, LiveSide.net, Engadget, WinBeta, The Econonomic Times, Pocketables, The Next Web and Byteoid

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

More: eWeek, PadGadget, Examiner, iDownloadBlog.com, T3 News and Cult of Mac

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 …

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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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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Google wants to build maps that customize themselves based on what they know about you — Two of the senior designers working on Google Maps told the Roadmap 2013 conference in San Francisco on Tuesday that maps are just a “canvas for the stuff we know about the world,” …

More: PandoDaily, TechHive and CNET

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Unlock your Mac by knocking on your iPhone with the new ‘Knock’ app — Knock uses a combination of an iPhone app (currently offered at an introductory price of $3.99) and a Mac app (available for free at Knock's website) to enable unlocking of your Mac, wirelessly, by just knocking the back of your iPhone.

More: Silicon Florist, MacRumors, Gigaom, The Verge, GeekWire, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, Gizmodo, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, Cult of Mac, iClarified, iPhone Hacks, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Laughing Squid and App Advice. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@turoczy

Eric P. Newcomer / jessica lessin:

By 4 to 1, Early Adopters Pick Wearable Watches Over Glasses — One of the most important questions about the future of computing is this: wrist or face? — Google has been trumpeting its Glass devices, which can take photos and run applications like Facebook and Twitter on a small screen within eyesight.

Tweets: @karaswisher

Paul Ducklin / Naked Security:

Anatomy of a password disaster - Adobe's giant-sized cryptographic blunder — One month ago today, we wrote about Adobe's giant data breach. — As far as anyone knew, including Adobe, it affected about 3,000,000 customer records, which made it sound pretty bad right from the start.

More: BBC and The Register

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Streamnation lets you lend movies and TV shows to friends directly from the cloud — The handiwork of Deezer co-founder Jonathan Benassaya, Streamnation launched to the world back in July this year, offering a platform for users to stream and share videos and photos directly from the cloud.

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, Inside Mobile Apps, AllThingsD, CNET, TechHive, SlashGear, TechSpot and iPhone

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, TechCrunch, New York Times, GeekWire, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Business Insider, WebProNews, CNET, Beyond Search and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @pkafka

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

EMC Sues Pure Storage, Alleges Misuse of Trade Secrets By Former Employees — Speaking of the swiftly moving world of enterprise storage, the biggest company in that space is suing one of its fastest-moving upstarts, and it's bound to get ugly. — Storage giant EMC yesterday sued Pure Storage …

More: Digits, ZDNet and Gigaom

Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:

Samsung to Increase Acquisitions as It Mulls Boosting Dividend — Samsung Electronics Co., Asia's biggest technology company by revenue, plans to seek more international deals and is considering boosting its dividend payout to investors. — The maker of Galaxy smartphones will be more aggressive …

More: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! News and Korea Real Time

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

TV Discovery Startup i.TV Acquires GetGlue In Second-Screen App Mashup — Provo, Utah-based video discovery startup i.TV has acquired GetGlue, we've learned, as consolidation in the market for second-screen or companion TV apps continues. The acquisition, which is expected to be announced soon …

Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint:

Brit manufacturer Kazam announces first wave of dual-SIM Android phones, Thunder and Trooper — Kazam is a new name in the smartphone business, having only started six months ago, but its ambitions are lofty considering it has just announced six new Android smartphones in two separate ranges.

More: Engadget, Guardian, Electronista and Gizmodo UK

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

In “Hatching Twitter,” a Billion-Dollar Company That Almost Wasn't — In Nick Bilton's new book, “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal,” the best description of the company during its formative years comes from the CEO of its largest competitor, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg:

More: Wired, Bloomberg and Mashable. Tweets: @marklittlenews

Om Malik / Gigaom:

To live and die in public: That's Twitter

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @narendra

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

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