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November 7, 2013, 3:25 PM

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Stephen Gandel / Fortune:

In Twitter IPO, Wall Street reserved best info for top clients — Twitter's investment bankers are telling their clients one thing while Main Street hears a different story. — FORTUNE — Once again, Wall Street is telling its top paying clients one thing, and the rest of us are getting a different story.

More: Telegraph, CNNMoney.com, AllThingsD, Valleywag and memeburn

Tweets: @joshconstine, @josephaabebe, @dangillmor and @eghosao

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter begins trading, surges over 75% to $46 per share — Twitter Flies On Its First Day As A Public Company: Shares Pop 74% On First Trades, Debuts At $45.10 And $31.8B Valuation — From a humble beginning as a failing podcast startup to an online conversation service now used …

More: Quartz, Digits, AllThingsD, eWeek, Guardian, The Next Web, GeekWire, CNET, Softpedia News, Bijan Sabet, The Verge, Laughing Squid and memeburn

Tweets: @latwalter, @howardlindzon, @jack, @georgezachary, @humonthemarkets and @kevinrose

See also Mediagazer

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Twitter leaves more than $1 billion on the table — Twitter made a ton of money from its IPO, but its bankers got the better deal. — FORTUNE — Twitter began trading this morning at $45.10 per share, after pricing its IPO last night at $26 per share. Or, put another way, Twitter (TWTR) left more than $1.3 billion on the table.

More: The Atlantic Online, Felix Salmon, Betabeat, Reuters, Bloomberg and PandoDaily

Tweets: @chris_ciaccia, @pkedrosky, @fdestin, @panzer and @felixsalmon

Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:

The Architect Behind Twitter's IPO … The architect of Twitter Inc.'s initial public offering is a 42-year-old finance whiz with a knack for finding calm amid chaos. — For four months, Twitter Chief Financial Officer Mike Gupta steered the social-media company through the IPO process …

More: CNBC. Tweets: @wsj, @yoreekoh and @hunterwalk

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Live Blog: Tracking Twitter's I.P.O.

More: MoneyBeat, Business Insider, Gigaom, USA Today, Digital Media Wire, Associated Press, Motherboard, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, Mashable, Daily Dot, Pulse 2.0 and POPSUGAR

Tweets: @twitter, @kris, @n8foo, @jess, @cnbc, @seacue, @timtrueman, @kellyshalk, @dealbook, @stop, @bijan, @chfry and @jess

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple Stores to soon offer iPhone 5s & 5c screen replacements, other repairs — Apple is gearing up to soon begin hardware repairs for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c in its chain of retail stores, according to sources with knowledge of the upcoming initiative.

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

C.I.A. Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data — WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. is paying AT&T more than $10 million a year to assist with overseas counterterrorism investigations by exploiting the company's vast database of phone records, which includes Americans' international calls, according to government officials.

More: Computerworld, Engadget, The Switch, CNNMoney.com, CNET, BGR, ValueWalk, Daily Dot, TechSpot, Electronista, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, The Verge, TheHill, Salon, TechPresident, Gothamist, Mashable, Gawker and Yahoo! News

Tweets: @propublica, @csoghoian and @trevortimm

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Internet Explorer 11 comes to Windows 7 in its final form, brings speed improvements — Internet Explorer has already been available on Windows 7 as an optional Release Preview, but now it's making its way to the aging OS in a more complete form. Starting today, you can download the final build …

More: MSDN Blogs, The Verge, BetaNews, GeekWire, LAPTOP Magazine, TechHive, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, gHacks Technology News and Web Browser

Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

Google starts testing ART, a potential replacement for Dalvik in Android — After a 2010 spat over how Java works in Android with Oracle, Google is moving on to a new way for apps run on mobile devices. Dubbed ART, the new runtime environment is available as a preview option in Android 4.4.

More: Android Police, 9to5Google, Examiner, Engadget, ReadWrite, Electronista, Ars Technica, Android Beat, PhoneArena, SlashGear, DIGITS to DOLLARS, Android Community and Engadget

Cade Metz / Wired:

See What's Inside the PlayStation 4 With These Exclusive Photos — Sony engineering director Yasuhiro Ootori looks over a PlayStation 4 — after taking it apart, piece by piece. — The PlayStation 4 — in one piece — and its controller, the DualShock 4.

More: Wired, PC Magazine, HotHardware.com News, SlashGear, DailyTech, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, Kotaku, Gizmodo, I4U News and Polygon. Tweets: @joemfbrown

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Microsoft Is Making An Astonishing $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties — Microsoft is generating $2 billion per year in revenue from Android patent royalties, says Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund in a new note on the company. — He estimates that the Android revenue has a 95% margin, so it's pretty much all profit.

More: Computerworld, ZDNet, Examiner, HotHardware.com News, MobileBurn.com, PhoneArena, Guardian, AndroidGuys and BGR

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

A Like Is Not Enough: Facebook Tests Star Ratings Displayed On Pages — Facebook is apparently testing displaying star ratings, out of a possible five in total, on Pages on the desktop version of its site, according to a reliable tip received by TechCrunch this morning.

More: CNET, Marketing, Business Insider, bizjournals, Marketing Land and hypebot

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Google brings KitKat keyboard, Hangouts with SMS to Play Store — Google has put a huge emphasis on bringing many of its branded Android apps and services to the Play Store for more users to enjoy without requiring a pure Android device, and two more of them are beginning to roll out today.

More: The Next Web, Android News, Rumours … and Droid Life

Chris Welch / The Verge:

AT&T will include Lookout security software on all Android devices from now on — Security is a sensitive subject for Android users: Google has long maintained that anti-virus and malware prevention software isn't a necessity on its platform, but companies like Symantec regularly sound …

More: The Official Lookout Blog, Gigaom, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, AllThingsD and The Next Web

David Ruddock / Android Police:

Verizon: Google, Asus Have Opted To Wait Until Nexus 7 Gets KitKat To Certify For Use On Network, “Systems Issue” With 4.3 To Blame — We've received an official statement from Verizon on the ongoing Nexus 7 LTE / Verizon saga, a story that has gone silent in the months since Verizon promised …

More: TechHive, DSLreports, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Geek.com, Phones Review, Gotta Be Mobile, GadgeTell, WebProNews, Android Beat, Electronista, The Verge, IntoMobile and Droid Life

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Updates Office 365, Brings Real-Time Collaboration To Free Office Web Apps — It's been six months since Microsoft launched Office 365, its subscription-based version of Office for businesses and consumers. Over 2 million consumers now subscribe to Office 365 Home Premium …

More: The Microsoft Office Blog, InfoWorld, ZDNet, The Microsoft Office Blog, The Microsoft Office Blog, Electronista, Ars Technica, The Verge, Inquirer, VentureBeat, WindowsObserver.com, CNET, I4U News, LiveSide.net, Engadget, Computerworld, The Next Web and SlashGear

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Internet Archive Seeking Donations To Rebuild Its Fire-Damaged Scanning Center — The non-profit Internet Archive suffered a major setback this morning when a fire broke out at its San Francisco office, causing an estimated $600,000 in damages. Fortunately there were no injuries and no data was lost …

More: Internet Archive Blogs, The Verge, Ars Technica, BBC, PC Magazine, The Register, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, SiliconBeat, ZDNet, TechSpot, Network World, bit-tech.net, Engadget, I4U News, Electronista, Boing Boing and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

Facebook opening a small engineering office in Boston area — Finally, Facebook comes to Boston — Facebook now has an official Boston-area presence — it's opened an engineering office in the Cambridge Innovation Center building in Kendall Square. The move has been rumored …

More: Facebook, ZDNet, Boston Herald, Inside Facebook, The Verge, PC Magazine, Boston Magazine, Softpedia News, Xconomy and The Next Web. Thanks:@dnalkrikleahcim

Reuters:

China military hackers persist despite being outed by U.S.: report — (Reuters) - The disclosure early this year of a secretive Chinese military unit believed to be behind a series of hacking attacks has failed to halt the cyber intrusions, a U.S. computer security company and congressional advisory panel said on Wednesday.

More: Gizmodo, TechNewsWorld, TechEye, Quartz and Softpedia News

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Chrome On Windows To Start Rejecting Extensions From Outside The Chrome Web Store In January — Starting in January, Google's Chrome browser will not allow you to install extensions that aren't hosted in Google's own Chrome Web Store. — While Google had recently increased its security measures …

More: Chromium Blog, The Verge, The Next Web and gHacks Technology News

Lora Kolodny / Venture Capital Dispatch:

Provide Commerce Acquires Sincerely to Make its E-Commerce Brands Mobile-Friendly — The e-commerce business behind Proflowers and Gifts.com, Provide Commerce, has acquired the mobile commerce startup Sincerely for an undisclosed sum in an all-cash deal, Provide Chief Executive Chris Shimojima told Venture Capital Dispatch.

More: TechCrunch, Gigaom and socalTECH.com

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Minting Cash: how Square designed a product with no design at all — Is the best interface no interface? — Robert Andersen was feeling flustered. Square founder Jack Dorsey had asked him to design a product that was so simple, it wouldn't even have an interface. “Square Cash” would let people send money over email.

Douglas MacMillan / Digits:

Square Exploring 2014 IPO With Banks

More: CNET, SiliconBeat, PC Magazine, The Register, VatorNews, Venture Capital Dispatch, TheStreet.com, WebProNews, San Francisco Chronicle, MoneyBeat and Inc.com

Tweets: @cnbcnow and @danprimack

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