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September 30, 2013, 4:55 AM

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Fred Wilson / A VC:
AngelList Syndicates will compete with other lead investors for deals, and many will fail  —  Leading vs Following  —  Hunter Walk has a good post up on the coming competition among angels with syndicates to get into deals.  Hunter observes: … What Hunter is getting at is the difference between leading and following.
Jason Calacanis / LinkedIn Today:
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Twitter plans to make its IPO filing public this week  —  Twitter's IPO filing is ready, and the company intends to make it public this week, according to someone familiar with the plan.  The goal is for Twitter to begin trading, likely on the New York Stock Exchange, before Thanksgiving.
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Apple Passes Coca-Cola as Most Valuable Brand  —  Apple is the new most valuable brand in the world, according to a closely followed annual report.  —  The report, to be released on Monday, is from Interbrand, a corporate identity and brand consulting company owned by the Omnicom Group …
MIT Technology Review:
How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics  —  To translate one language into another, find the linear transformation that maps one to the other.  Simple, say a team of Google engineers  —  Computer science is changing the nature of the translation …
More: Motherboard and arxiv.orgTweets: @soundboy
Richard Lai / Engadget:
CyanogenMod creator Steve Kondik on the challenges of refining the ROM  —  On the morning after the Oppo N1 launch, Steve “Cyanogen” Kondik was surrounded by several Oppo ambassadors and tech writers at a hotel lounge in Beijing.  It's a far cry from where he started: toying with Android ROMs out of “boredom” about five years ago.

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