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Jessica Ravitz / CNN:

Voiceover actor Susan Bennett of Georgia revealed as the original US Siri voice — 'I'm the original voice of Siri' — Sandy Springs, Georgia (CNN) — For the past two years, she's been a pocket and purse accessory to millions of Americans. She's starred alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:

Twitter's IPO filing is official — S-1 now publicly available — FORM S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT — Twitter, Inc. — Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after this registration statement becomes effective.

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

Here are the secret edits Twitter made to its IPO filing, hoping investors wouldn't notice — Twitter secretly submitted four drafts of its IPO prospectus to regulators before making public the version that drew so much attention yesterday. The changes made in the interim expose concerns …

More: Reuters. Tweets: @zseward, @yoreekoh, @zseward, @jdh, @danprimack, @zseward and @jessicalessin

Ritchie King / Quartz:

Twitter's average ad revenue per user was $0.55 in Q2 2013, compared to $1.41 for Facebook

More: Marketing Land, Wonkblog, Forbes, Softpedia News, Washington Post and Tech in Asia. See also Mediagazer

Erin Griffith / PandoDaily:

Twitter to investors: We are the anti-Facebook

More: Digits, BuzzFeed, PE Hub Blog, Tom Simonite, DailyFinance.com, The Verge and Bloomberg. Tweets: @joshconstine

Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits:

Jack Dorsey Gave Evan Williams His Voting Power at Twitter

More: Guardian, DealBook and New York Times

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter ad revenue: $7.3M in 2010, $77.7M in 2011, $269.4M in 2012, $221.4M in H1 2013

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Robert Hof / Forbes:

Twitter's losses are accelerating again, totalling $69M in the first half of 2013

More: Wired, Search Engine Watch and SocialTimes

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Twitter's International Revenue Is Skyrocketing, But The Company Is Worried About Sina Weibo And Line

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter files to raise $1B, company is not profitable, will trade under ticker TWTR

More: Guardian, DailyFinance.com, Wired.co.uk and Inquirer. See also Mediagazer

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

At 215 Million Monthly Active Users, Twitter Has a Growth Problem

More: Wall Street Journal, Corporate Intelligence and Nextgov

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Mobile Twitter: 164M+ (75%) Access From Handheld Devices Monthly, 65% Of Ad Sales Come From Mobile

Bloomberg:

Microsoft in talks with HTC to add Windows Phone to Android models at little or no cost — Microsoft Said to Ask HTC to Put Windows on More Phones — Microsoft Corp. is talking to HTC about adding its Windows operating system to HTC's Android-based smartphones at little or no cost …

Guardian:

NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users — • Top-secret documents detail repeated efforts to crack Tor — • Tool funded by US government and relied on by dissidents and activists — • Core security of network remains intact but NSA has some success attacking users' computers

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, Lastest ITProPortal news, SlashGear and Boing Boing

Tweets: @ramez, @guardianus, @eff, @ethanz, @wiredopinion, @csoghoian, @csoghoian, @jamesrbuk, @headhntr, @gerryfsmith, @mathewi, @tomgara, @michaelkelleybi, @kpoulsen and @holpuch

Guardian:

‘Tor Stinks’ presentation - read the full document — Top-secret presentation says ‘We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time’ but ‘with manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users’

More: The Verge and emptywheel. Tweets: @csoghoian

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

MongoDB Becomes King of NYC Startups With $1.2 Billion Valuation — MongoDB Inc., capitalizing on the popularity of its online database software, raised $150 million in a venture-funding round that would make it the most valuable Internet startup in New York.

More: Max Schireson's blog, GigaOM, Betabeat, TechCrunch, ZDNet and VentureBeat

Tweets: @matthewkalan and @sarahfrier

Instagram Blog:

Instagram as a Growing Business — Over the past three years we've watched with amazement as Instagram has grown to a global community of more than 150 million people capturing and sharing the world's moments. Instagram is a place where people come to connect and be inspired …

More: AllFacebook, VatorNews, Business Insider, Gadget Helpline, NPR, SocialTimes, Inquirer, HotHardware.com News, PetaPixel, BostInno, TechSpot, Softpedia News, tbreak, memeburn, stuff.tv and New Yorker. See also Mediagazer

Joanna Stern / ABC News:

iPhone 5C's price cut to $50 at Best Buy through Monday just two weeks after launch — Best Buy Drops the Price of iPhone 5c to $50 … Just two weeks after hitting the market, Best Buy will begin offering a discount on Apple's iPhone 5c. From today, Oct. 3, to Monday, Oct. 7, the iPhone 5c will be available for $50.

More: The Verge, GigaOM, LAPTOP Magazine, BGR, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista, InvestorPlace, PhoneArena, Phones Review, Business Insider, MacDailyNews, IntoMobile, AppleInsider, iMore and 9to5Mac

Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo:

Some iPhone 5s owners reporting bad accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass readings — The iPhone 5S Motion Sensors Are Totally Screwed Up — Since the iPhone 5S landed in the hands of new owners a few weeks ago, there have been reports that on-board sensors like the gyroscope, compass …

More: Wired, Lifehacker, Softpedia News, InvestorPlace, App Advice, TechSpot and iPhone Informer

Cloud Foundry:

IBM WebSphere Liberty Buildpack Contributed to Cloud Foundry — IBM is contributing the IBM WebSphere Liberty Buildpack today as further proof of its commitment to make the Cloud Foundry open source project and community even stronger. — A guest blog by Rachel Reinitz, an IBM Distinguished Engineer in IBM Software Services

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

OS X Mavericks goes Golden Master, now out for developers — In line with our report from earlier today, Apple has released OS X Mavericks Golden Master (GM) to developers. It became available to AppleSeed users and Apple employees earlier today. This GM stage means that Apple …

More: AppleInsider, PC Magazine, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Mashable, Gearburn, Digital Trends and Engadget. Thanks:@mikebeas

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple finishing up Mavericks as development shifts to OS X ‘Syrah’ with iOS 7-influence

More: ParisLemon, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Computerworld, HotHardware.com News, BetaNews, Gotta Be Mobile and AppleTell. Tweets: @parislemon

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

iPhone 5S fingerprint spoof could lead to ID theft, German researchers says — A German security company says spoofing the iPhone 5S's fingerprint reader can be used to beat the phone's “remote wipe” facility to carry out identity theft. — SRL demonstrates the hack on its website.

More: Security Research Labs, GeekWire, MacRumors, ZDNet, Mashable, 9to5Mac, Electronista, Lastest ITProPortal news and Reuters

Nick Hide / Crave:

Samsung defends Galaxy Note 3 benchmarking shenanigans … Samsung has been forced on the defensive yet again over reports that its top-notch smart phones are cheating at benchmark tests. — The Korean company has denied its Galaxy Note 3 superphone exaggerates its performance when it detects …

More: Ars Technica, The Tech Report, stuff.tv, Softpedia News, SlashGear, The Next Web and Android Beat

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Zoho Blogs:

Join us tomorrow for the Zoho Houston Meet Up — Hello again, Texas! The Zoho Team is coming to Houston tomorrow, October 3rd, for our next Meet Up. Our first event in Austin last month was a great way for us …

Amazon Mobile App Distribution:

iOS Support Comes to GameCircle and Whispersync for Games, Including Built-In Achievement Analytics and Visualization — Amazon GameCircle and Whispersync for Games is live on iOS and Android!

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