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November 7, 2013, 6:45 PM

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Ben Popper / The Verge:

Twitter's stock closes at $44.90 a share, up 73 percent on its first day — A more conservative approach than Facebook leads to a big first day of gains — Twitter held its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange this morning, opening its stock up for purchase to any interested investor …

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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: TechCrunch, Telegraph, CNNMoney.com, AllThingsD, PandoDaily, Valleywag, memeburn and DealBook

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

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.

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

Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:

The Architect Behind Twitter's IPO

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

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.

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Tweets: @reftpt, @propublica, @csoghoian and @trevortimm

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.

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

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Glass XE11 update adds commands to search Google Calendar, get directions home, & more — Google today announced its XE11 update for Google Glass and highlighted a few of the new features on its Google+ page for the wearable. New for Google Glass is the ability to search Google Calendar with commands like …

More: Examiner, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, Phandroid, The Verge, The Next Web and AndroidGuys

Jeremiah Rice / Android Police:

Google Glass FAQ Updated Again: Don't Worry, Google Won't Disable Glass If You Sell It

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Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Google Glass developers will get their first crack at its SDK later this month

More: eWeek, The Verge and CNET

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 …

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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Marvel creating four superhero shows exclusively for Netflix, premiering in 2015 — Marvel is creating four live-action superhero series that will air exclusively on Netflix beginning in 2015. The first of the TV series will focus on Daredevil, while the following series will star Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage.

More: Deadline.com, Engadget, VentureBeat, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times, Gigaom, Washington Post, Wired, TechCrunch, HitFix, Geekosystem, Mashable, Hypable, App Advice, WebProNews and Inside TV. Tweets: @carlfranzen

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases fix for OS X Mavericks Gmail bugs to customers — Apple has released a Mail Update for Mavericks that is designed to resolve many of the bugs that users of the OS X Mavericks Mail application have experienced since launch. … The update was released to Apple employees last week …

More: Apple, TechCrunch, iMore, MacRumors, AllThingsD, Gigaom Search and TUAW. Thanks:@umad

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, Wired, ExtremeTech, PC Magazine, The Verge, TechSpot, SlashGear, Engadget, CNET, Kotaku, DailyTech, Gizmodo and I4U News. Tweets: @joemfbrown

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, Business Insider, PC World, PC Magazine, Google Operating System, ZDNet, The Verge, Engadget and Pocketables

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Groupon Q3 Misses On Sales Of $595.1M; Announces Acquisition Of Ticket Monster For $260M To Boost Mobile Business In Asia — Fresh from celebrating its fifth anniversary last week, Groupon today reported its Q3 earnings: it's a mixed picture but shows that Groupon continues to make good on its commitment …

More: AllThingsD, VatorNews, internetretailer.com, WebProNews and Mashable

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

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 …

Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:

Cable Vets Tout New Anti-Piracy Chip (Exclusive) — Beyond Broadband Technology, founded by four industry insiders, has a patent for a password-free system without the need for third party validation and without paying royalties to big companies. — Beyond Broadband Technology …

More: TechEye

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, The Boston Globe, ZDNet, Inside Facebook, PC Magazine, Boston Herald, Softpedia News, Associated Press, The Next Web, The Verge, Xconomy and Boston Magazine. 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, Quartz, TechEye and Softpedia News

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, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Gizmodo and 9to5Google

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