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November 6, 2013, 10:40 AM

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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.

Stefan Constantinescu / Android Beat:

Samsung's Analyst Day: Custom ARM core, 560 PPI displays in 2014, and 4K phones in 2015 — Samsung just finished hosting their second ever analyst event in South Korea. Admittedly I didn't listen to all seven of the presentations given due to time constraints, but I did download …

More: Engadget, The Verge, Gigaom, Tech in Asia, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, The Register, Tech in Asia, Sammy Hub, MobileBurn.com, Android Central, MobileBurn.com, Gotta Be Mobile and MobileSyrup.com. Thanks:@gautamp777

Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:

Samsung to Use $39 Billion Cash for More Deals in Growth Chase — Samsung Electronics Co., holding $39 billion in net cash, will pursue more deals as Asia's biggest technology company seeks to grow beyond its core consumer electronics amid fears those businesses are nearing saturation.

More: Korea Real Time, Sammy Hub, AppleInsider, The Verge, ZDNet, PhoneArena, The Next Web, SlashGear, pocketnow.com, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Yahoo! News

@andrewchen:

When a great product hits the funding crunch — Today I read a well-done article by The Verge on the shutdown of Everpix, a photo startup that's gained a small but loyal following. It's a great read, and I'd encourage you to check it out. There's a lot of things to comment on …

Tweets: @erickschonfeld, @frank_meehan, @mdudas, @stevecheney and @caseynewton

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Everpix is shutting down after acquisition offers from Path and others fall through. Here's how it died.

More: Everpix Blog, iPhone, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, VentureBeat, Daring Fireball, App Advice, Electronista, SiliconBeat, SlashGear, TUAW and The Next Web

Tweets: @eugenewei, @innonate, @dancounsell, @hamburger, @siracusa, @caseynewton, @caseynewton, @mulligan, @howardlindzon and @rafat

Thanks:@mattlynley

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 Verge, The Switch, Digital Trends, Electronista, Delimiter, SlashGear, The Next Web, Gigaom, Engadget and Union Square Ventures

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: VatorNews, FOSS Patents, BetaNews, bizjournals, The Next Web, Inquirer, Bloomberg, The Verge, Newsy, TUAW, ZDNet, Digits, TechCrunch, Boing Boing, Mashable, Mercury News, BuzzFeed, Yahoo! News, Gizmodo, CNET, Engadget, GeekWire, iLounge, iMore, Electronista, VentureBeat and AppleInsider

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

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple: “Our Business Does Not Depend on Collecting Personal Data”

More: ZDNet. Tweets: @davewiner

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Apple Employs ‘Warrant Canary’ To Warn Users Of Future Compliance With Patriot Act Info Requests

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

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

KitKat shows caller IDs from Google Places, Apps customers; adding personal accounts in early 2014 — Google formally introduced KitKat, the newest flavor of Android, last week, but the company is still revealing new features of the platform: today it confirmed that the phone app is undergoing …

More: Android Central, The Verge, Search Engine Land, Gigaom, Inquirer, Engadget, Electronista, BetaNews, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, TechCrunch and Gotta Be Mobile

Juro Osawa / Digits:

Samsung Overpowers Smartphone Rivals in China — Just as Samsung is opening up to investors on its first “Analyst Day” in eight years, the company got some other piece of good news. — In China's enormous smartphone market, Samsung appears to be winning the battle against low-cost Chinese competitors, according to one study.

More: Canalys Newsroom, Bloomberg, Computerworld, iDownloadBlog.com, Tech in Asia, memeburn, WMPoweruser, G 4 Games and CNET. Tweets: @juroosawa

David Kravets / Wired:

AOL Smacks Startup for Using CrunchBase Content It Gave Away — Can you release content under a free Creative Commons license, then change your mind and take that material back? — That's the question posed in a simmering battle between media giant AOL and a three-person startup called Pro Populi …

More: TechCrunch, InfoWorld, Info @ CrunchBase and Business Insider

Tweets: @stevenwalling, @philosophygeek, @synedra, @carnage4life and @evrystockphoto

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Nipping At Spotify, Deezer Passes 5M Paying Subs, Adds ‘Hear This’ And ‘Explore’ For Music Discovery, Unveils New Mac App — Spotify may be the world's biggest music streaming company, but rival Deezer is inching closer to its terrain: today the company revealed that it now has 5 million paying users globally …

More: Guardian, The Next Web, Engadget, hypebot, Softpedia News, Rude Baguette and TUAW

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Backed By Sequoia, Zomato Closes $37M Series D To Expand Its Restaurant Discovery Service Internationally — Zomato wants to eat Yelp's lunch. The Indian restaurant discovery service has been chipping away at the space since 2008, mostly in its home market.

More: VentureBeat and Venture Capital Dispatch. Tweets: @ambarshante

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple takes Apple Store app Passbook gift card integration international — Back in October of 2012, Apple introduced the ability to purchase gift cards via the iPhone and iPod touch Apple Store application. These gift cards could then be shared via email to family and friends for use in the Apple Store.

More: iMore, I4U News, AppleInsider, TUAW, Softpedia News, iPhone Hacks and MacRumors

Emily Spaven / CoinDesk:

Bitcoin price soars over $266 and hits a new all-time high — UPDATE (6th October, 12:35 GMT): The price of bitcoin crept up to $269 at 05:30 and then fluctuated mildly until it reached a new high of $270 at 10:30. — The total number of bitcoins in circulation is currently 11,955,775 and the market cap …

More: The Switch and The Next Web. Tweets: @coindesk

CBS News:

“Sweetie” Sting: Dutch activists claim to nab 1,000 sex predators using computer-generated “child” — (CBS/AP) AMSTERDAM - Dutch children's rights activists used a computer-generated image of a 10-year-old Philippine girl to catch suspected sex predators and say that, as a result …

More: CNET, BBC, Terre des Hommes, Business Insider, NPR, The Register, Washington Times, ABC News, Business Insider, Mashable, Newsy and NBCNews

Moxie Marlinspike / Ars Technica:

Op-ed: Lavabit's primary security claim wasn't actually true — Moxie Marlinspike is a cryptographer, software developer and security researcher who regularly appears at the Black Hat security conferences. His critique of HTTPS Web encryption has led browser makers to change the way they implement it.

More: Moxie Marlinspike. Tweets: @_saadk

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Lavabit Founder Takes To Kickstarter To Open Source A New End-To-End Encryption Messaging Protocol

More: VentureBeat, PC World, Daily Dot, The Register, Digital Trends and Engadget

Greg Sterling / Marketing Land:

Mobile Market: iPhone Gains, Google's Got Reach, Facebook Top App — Comscore reports that 62 percent of American adults now carry smartphones (Nielsen says it's 64 percent). The firm's latest smartphone tracking data show that the iPhone remains the top single smartphone …

More: comScore, Inc., 9to5Mac, The Verge, Search Engine Land, Windows Phone Central, The Next Web, WMPoweruser, App Advice, iClarified, AppleInsider and AllThingsD

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: 9to5Google, Computerworld, PandoDaily, Beyond Search and CNET

Shreyas Gandhe / Neowin:

Google Apps dropping support for IE9 — Google has announced through its Google Apps blog that it will be dropping support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser in the coming weeks. — The blog post highlights Google's policy for browser support which includes the latest …

More: Google Apps update alerts, The Next Web, Inquirer, WebProNews, Softpedia News, CNET and gHacks Technology News

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