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November 11, 2013, 6:55 AM

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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

Apple said to develop 4.7 and 5.5 inch curved iPhones for late 2014 release, pressure-sensitive screens for later models — Apple Said Developing Curved IPhone Screens, Enhanced Sensors — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is developing new iPhone designs including bigger screens with curved glass …

Cam Simpson / Businessweek:

An iPhone Tester Caught in Apple's Supply Chain — Beneath the spotlight in a San Francisco performing arts theater, Apple (AAPL) marketing chief Phil Schiller was about to stage-manage one of the most anticipated product unveilings of the year. It was the first post-Steve Jobs reveal of a new iPhone.

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Tweets: @tomwarren, @stevekovach and @rurikbradbury

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon to Begin Sunday Deliveries, With Post Office's Help — Experiment Is Web Retailer's Latest Speed Initiative … Amazon.com Inc. will begin delivering packages on Sundays in the nation's two largest cities later this month with an unlikely partner—the United States Postal Service.

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Tweets: @tcarmody, @valleyhack, @davepell, @parislemon and @whatthebit

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Microsoft shouldn't hire any CEO who wants to kill Bing and Xbox — According to “people with knowledge of his thinking,” Bloomberg is reporting that, should Stephen Elop become Microsoft's next CEO, he would consider shutting down or selling parts of the company to “sharpen its focus.”

More: I4U News, T3 News, Softpedia News, eWeek, The Tech Report, CITEworld, PhoneArena and TechCrunch

Tweets: @navalang, @tcarmody, @alex, @dewitt and @fmanjoo

Benedict Evans:

Facebook's acquisition of Instagram is looking strategically irrelevant — Instagram and Youtube — Instagram is looking like a great acquisition. It had 30m users when Facebook bought it in April 2012, and has now passed 150m, just 18m later. — (The change in colour signifies the acquisition.)

More: Guardian. Tweets: @davemcclure, @rianvdm, @dougw, @paul_framp, @benedictevans and @monkbent

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

New iWork: Another Missed Opportunity To Set Expectations — With the 5.0 iWork suite we revisit Apple's propensity to make lofty claims that fall short of reality. The repetition of such easily avoidable mistakes is puzzling and leads us to question what causes Apple executives to squander the company's well-deserved goodwill.

More: Guardian and ZDNet. Tweets: @marypcbuk, @gassee and @roddrury

Spiegel Online:

GCHQ Used Fake LinkedIn Pages to Target Engineers — Elite GCHQ teams targeted employees of mobile communications companies and billing companies to gain access to their company networks. The spies used fake copies of LinkedIn profiles as one of their tools.

More: Gigaom and I4U News. Tweets: @ggreenwald and @cryptofestival

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

UK spies continue “quantum insert” attack via LinkedIn, Slashdot pages — According to a new report (German) by Der Spiegel, the British signals intelligence spy agency has again employed a “quantum insert” technique as a way to target employees (Google Translate) of two companies that are GRX (Global Roaming Exchange) providers.

More: TechEye, The Verge, The Independent and SlashGear

Tweets: @headhntr and @cmdrtaco

Natasha Singer / New York Times:

They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets. — At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for prospective students. Throughout the presentation, she apparently posted disparaging comments …

Tweets: @scissortongue, @emilybell and @whatthebit

Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:

More Business Graduates Opt for Tech Over Wall Street — Harvard and Other Elite Schools Look Elsewhere as Finance Loses Its Lustre … A record number of business school graduates from top schools are choosing jobs in the technology sector, as interest in finance continues to show marked declines.

Tweets: @jeffweiner, @iansherr and @obsoletedogma

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Vox Media buying Curbed Network (including Curbed, Eater, and Racked) for $20-$30 Million — Vox Media Buying Curbed.com Network of Sites — Vox Media, a company with three strong digital brands, including the technology site The Verge, is adding to its portfolio.

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Unlike the PS4, the Xbox One won't support 3D Blu-ray playback at launch — Now that Microsoft has adopted Blu-ray for its upcoming Xbox One, some of you might have been wondering if this next-gen console will support 3D Blu-ray movies. Well, the answer is no, or at least not yet.

More: Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, WinBeta, CNET, T3 News, Engadget, SlashGear and IntoMobile

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